Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1909 — PANKHURST SHAFT FOR TAFT [ARTICLE]

PANKHURST SHAFT FOR TAFT

Suffragette Says President Neglects American Girl In English Prison. London, Dec. 10. —The suffragettes held a big meeting to welcome home Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst She declared that she was glad to be in the thick of the English fight again. In speaking of America Mrs. Pankhurst said that when .two Americans lost their lives recently in Nicaragua the government talked of punitive measures to be taken against President Zelaya, but although President Taft had received numerous petitions on behalf of Alice Paul, the American suffragette who was sentenced to im prisonment at hard labor for a month, he had refused to take any steps to aid her.