The suffragists believed in peaceful methods such as holding meetings, issuing leaflets, and collecting petitions. They met with politicians and their case out which the suffragettes thought was not working well and thought it was working too slowly. The two groups methods were completely different to each other because one group approached a peaceful methods and the other group approached more directly and liked using militant methods.
The suffragists had many problems of trying to get the vote and people in the group were not happy with violence, which was getting them nowhere so Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawerence left the WSPU, which led to a split of the WSPU, and they began to work on their own for votes for women. They both believed that more violence would not achieve nothing and soon Sylvia Pankhurst started to drift away and started to help the poor of in the East End of London. As it got worse Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst was left in charge.
The difference between the two groups tactics Is that the suffragists ran meetings in almost all constituencies in the run up to the General Election, they held their own first ever procession, they lead a deputation to see the prime minister, their leader also held a public debate with her opponents and also raises a petition of 280,000 signatures and done many more jobs to help them to get the vote but the suffragettes were and used tactics like heckling at meetings, start attacking properties, such as breaking windows, etc also carry out arson, bombing sabotage in many areas of Britain which showed they were completely different to the suffragists and were violent and militant.
The suffragettes used may violent tactics and when the government did not grant the vote to women still they did even more violent things to gain the vote before eventually the government having no choice but to give the vote. The suffragettes also became more extreme and militant because in 1911 Prime Minister Asquith announced he planned to introduce votes for all men, and that an extra clause about women’s votes could be tackled on to the Bill. The suffragettes were furious because they wanted a proper Suffrage Bill dealing only with women. The attitude of the government was that there were other issues that were much more pressing and urgent than a separate Bill on votes for women. The campaign became more violent. Suffragettes smashed windows, set fire to letterboxes and damaged cricket pitches and golf courses. Bombs were placed in warehouses, and telephone wires were cut. Art galleries closed after suffragettes slashed valuable paintings.
To conclude, the groups are very different and both use different methods to conclude but the suffragists use peaceful and moderate methods and thoughts in their protests but the suffragettes used more violence, were more direct and used militant methods.