Sunday, May 4, 2014

Monday, May 4, 1914. Gov. Ammon on the ropes.

 The Boomerang was pondering Colorado Governor Ammon's fate. . . and war with Mexico.


In Mexico, Revolutionary and future president of the country Álvaro Obregón began a blockade around Mazatlán.

Ammons would survive the impeachment attempt, but he's seen the handwriting on the wall politically and made his current term, which expired in 1915, his last.

Suffragette Mary Ann Aldham slashed John Singer Sargent's portrait of Henry James as part of the ongoing suffragette campaign of terrorism that had been going on in recent weeks in the UK. The painting was on display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

The victimized painting.

The attack is proof of a certain danger.  Even really good causes attracts acts out of outright goofballedness.

Last prior edition:

Saturday, May 2, 1914. National Suffrage Day

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