Object: To secure for women the Parliamentary Vote on the same terms as it is or may be granted to men.

Methods: (1) Action entirely independent of all political parties. (2) Opposition to whatever Government is in power until such time as the franchise is granted. (3) Participation in Parliamentary Elections in opposition to the Government candidates, and independently of all other candidates. (4) Vigorous agitation and the education of public opinion by all the usual methods, such as public meetings, demonstrations, debates, distribution of literature, newspaper correspondence and deputations to public representatives.

The male suffragist, Hugh Franklin, who is alleged to have attacked Mr Winston Churchill with a whip in a train on his way to London from Bradford, was charged with assault at Bow Street on Monday.

Franklin, who is twenty-ne, is of independent means, and lives at Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill. He is stated to be a nephew of Mr Herbert Samuel, the Postmaster General.

Mr Bodkin said Franklin had provided himself with a dog whip, and as the Home Secretary passed along the train on the way to the dining car Franklin pulled the whip from his pocket, addressed some violent language to the Home Secretary, and would have struck him if he had not been seized promptly by Detective Sergeant Sandercock.

Detective Sergeant Sandercock, who was attached to the Home Secretary said Franklin was ejected from the meeting at Bradford from which Mr Churchill was returning. Franklin was sitting with a woman suffragette (Miss Laura Ainsworth) in a third-class compartment. When Mr Churchill passed through the corridor, Franklin jumped up and drew a dog whip from his pocket, and shouted: "Winston Churchill, take that, you dirty cur!" The witness forced him back on to the seat, and Inspector Parker took the whip from him. Franklin admitted that he called Mr Churchill a cur, but said he did not use the word "dirty". He was remanded till Monday without bail. Permission was given for her mother to visit him.

At Bow Street, yesterday, Hugh Arthur Franklin, a supporter of the suffragette cause, was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment in the second division for assaulting Mr Churchill, Home Secretary, by attempting to strike him with a dog whip in a train from Bradford to London recently.

The magistrate, Sir Albert de Rutzen, characterised the assault as deliberate, premeditated, and unprovoked. He had nothing to do with politics, but had to protect the public from people who showed such behaviour as the accused. The fact that the assault was committed on the Home Secretary made no difference; he would inflict a similar penalty to anyone interfering with a person doing his legitimate business….

Cross-examined, Mr Churchill admitted that during the past five years interruptions at his meetings from supporters of the suffrage movement were frequent. He did not want to press the case unduly.

Defendant, giving evidence, said his action was of a political nature in connection with the suffrage movement.

At Bow Street today, Hugh Franklin, a member of the Men's Political League for Women's Enfranchisement, was charged with throwing stones outside the residence of Mr Churchill in Eccleston Square last night….

Defendant said his motive in going to the Home Secretary's house was because of the treatment a friend of his was undergoing in Pentonville Prison. His friend was in prison because he refused to be bound over and was not being accorded special treatment. The friend had refused food, and was possibly being forcibly fed. He thought a protest should be made.

The Magistrate bound Franklin over in sureties, but he declined to find them, and went to prison for one month. 

Throwing stones at Mr Churchill's House at Bow Street Police Court yesterday, Hugh Franklin, a member of the Men's Political League for Women's Enfranchisement, was charged with throwing stones outside the resistance of Mr Churchill in Eccleston Square last night. The Magistrate bound Franklin over in sureties, but he declined to find them, and went to prison for one month.

At Bow Street today Mr Marsham heard the last of 223 cases arising out of the Suffragist disturbances at Westminster.

The defendant, Victor Duval had been remanded last week that he might call evidence for the defence on a charge of obstruction. One witness said the policeman clutched Duval's throat, and forced his head back for two or three minutes. The police behaved riotously towards the woman in his opinion.

Prisoner also made allegations against the police.

After fining Duval 10s on a charge of obstruction the Magistrate said there had been a good many cases arising out of the disturbances, and he had dealt leniently with them. If anything of the kind occurred again the offenders must not expect to get off so easily. In cases of wilful damage, especially of personal violence, he should deal very differently with offenders than he had on this occasion.

Mr Hugh Arthur Franklin, who was on Saturday (8th) sentenced to nine months' imprisonment in the second division for setting fire to a Great Central Railway carriage in the name of "Votes for Women," must learn to distinguish, if, indeed, nature has endowed him with the necessary capacity. When sentence was pronounced he informed an uninterested bench that he would not take any food. He will get it nevertheless, and no section outside the prison will make any fuss because a man is forcibly fed without nice consideration for his feelings. A man who sets fire to a railway carriage, imperilling the lives of innocent people, should be condemned to a long term of hard labour if two doctors cannot certify him to be a fit inmate for a lunatic asylum.

Asked by Mr Keir Hardie whether he is aware that the relatives of Mr Hugh Franklin, who is hunger striking at Pentonville, have been informed that his nervous system is so seriously impaired that his reason is endangered.

Mr McKenna, in a printed reply issued yesterday, states that such information is incorrect, and its communication unauthorised. Mr Franklin's mental condition cannot, in view of the crimes he has committed, be regarded as normal, but it has not in any way deteriorated during his imprisonment. As he had lost weight to the extent of 121bs., he was examined a fortnight ago by a specialist, since then there has been no further loss of weight, and there appears to be no necessity at present for a further consultation. There is nothing in his condition to render immediate release necessary.

In the House of Pretence yesterday, in answer to Mr George Touche, Mr Mckena said Mr Hugh Franklin, the Suffragist prisoner released on Monday morning, had been forcibly fed upwards of one hundred times.

He could not say whether that constituted a record.

The Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement held a protest meeting against the forcible feeding of Mr Hugh Franklin, in the Kinsway Hall, last night, Mr H. W. Nevinson presided, and the speakers included Mrs Pethick Lawrence and Mr Israel Zangwill.

Five of the prisoners released temporarily under the "Cat and Mouse Act" have failed to return to prison on the date named, and the police are now searching for them. They are Hugh Arthur Franklin, Annie Bell, Phyllis Brady, Elsie Duval (alias Millicent Dean) and Ella Stevenson (alias Ethel Slade).

The futility of what has earned the name of the "Cat and Mouse Act" is already demonstrated. Four Suffragist prisoners who were released after hunger striking have not returned to prison on the expiration of their period of grace. The names of the missing prisoners.

The Special Branch of Scotland Yard has circulated the following description of Franklin: "Wanted for failing to return to Wormwood Scrubs Prison on May 12 th as required by the conditions of an order under the Prisoners' Temporarily Discharge for Ill-Health Act. Hugh Arthur Franklin, aged twenty-six years, height 5ft 8ins, sallow complexion, hazel eyes, dark hair, slight dark moustache, of Jewish appearance, wearing pince-nez.

A house, the Highlands, at Sandgate, near Folkestone, was set fire to during Tuesday night (13 th May 1913), and damaged to the extent of £500. An entrance was made by breaking a window at the back, and the staircase was first set alight… Postcards addressed to "The Dishonourable Prime Minister" and "The Dishonourable McKenna" were found, and one was inscribed "Hope this is not a poor widow's house.

The police are searching for Hugh Arthur Franklin (a nephew of Mr Herbert Samuel, the Postmaster-General) who was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for setting fire to a train, and who, while in prison, was forcibly-fed over 100 times. He was temporarily released under the powers obtained recently by the Home Secretary, and has failed to return under the conditions of the licence… Three older hunger strikers, Elsie Duval, Phyllis Brady, and Ella Stevenson (alias Ethel Slade), are being similarly sought for.