Word that Moorestown Quaker Alice Paul was on a hunger strike trying to receive treatment as a “political prisoner” at the District of Columbia jail seemed to energize both her supporters and opponents. Paul had been picketing the White House trying to convince President Woodrow Wilson to support the amendment that would give all women the vote. In response, the government had begun arresting pickets for blocking the sidewalk, and in October 1917, Paul was sentenced to seven months.