To the Editor, Bideford Weekly Gazette,

Dear Sir
May I contradict two mis-statements that have appeared in the columns of your paper with reference to the Suffragettes at Clovelly?
The first one is that we accused Mr Asquith on the golf links of ‘being a beast and a coward’. Then, further down in the column, you say ‘On their return to the village, Mrs Jones, their landlady….. said she did not desire their company longer.’
Both of these statements are absolutely untrue. We never called Mr Asquith a ‘beast’/ What we did say to him was ‘Receive our deputation on June 29th: don’t be a coward!’. We did not accuse him of BEING a coward. We only gave him a timely warning.
As to Mrs Jones saying she did not desire our company longer, I do not know where you got this information from. After our interview with Mr Asquity on the golf links, we decided that we would leave Clovelly as soon as we could in order to carry out another scheme, and when we informed Mrs Jones of our decision, she made no remarks at all about our departure beyond asking us to sign our names in the visitor’s book, which we did. Our campaign was well planned and our departure from Clovelly almost immediately after heckling Mr Asquith on the golf links was only a part of the scheme. Our landlady had nothing at all to do with it. On the contrary she was quite nice and homely. I think it is only fair to her fair to us that these mis-statements should be contradicted.
Yours faithfully,
Jessie Kenney

It is no doubt difficult for anyone to state precisely what was actually said on the exciting occasion by the Suffragettes in question, but we think our readers, as ourselves, will prefer to take the information as to what was said, from the gentleman form whom we obtained it, rather than from ladies who are capable and proud of such misbehaviour as that which took place at Clovelly.
Editor, Bideford Weekly Gazette