Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1913 — QUEEN GETS SUFFRAGE PLEA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

QUEEN GETS SUFFRAGE PLEA

Maid of Honor Requests Ruler to Cancel Rule Against Joining Militant Boelety. London.—Honorable Mabel Gye, one of Queen Mary’s maids of honor in keen sympathy with the militant suf-

fragettes, has presented a petition to the queen purporting to represent the views of eight other ladles In the royal household and praying her majesty to cancel the rule recently made that no member of her household must *elong to the Women's Social and Political union, the militant suffragette organization. The queen, strongly opposed to the militants, sept no reply. Miss Gye bss offered to resign, but her resignation was not accepted.

Queen Mery of England.