Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-04


der is to be enforced.
The Mother Hubbard parade is said
to be distinctly Wheeling institu-
ton. 1t was inaugurated many years
ago, and has Deen given on the eve
of each succeeding Presidential cleo
ton. The first Mother Hubbard pa
rade was given when Belva Lockwood
was the candidate of the Woman Suf-
fragists.
= This year the young men who have
Interested themselves in the movement
for the Mother Hubbard parade, have
made their arrangements upon more
elaborate scale, and the claim is made
that there will be more persons in line
than in any previous parade. 1t Will
take place tomorrow night, and will
move over the principal streets in the
heart of the city. The officials SO far
selected are as follows:
Chief Marshal, Frank Church.
Chief of Staff, Jesse McCausland.
Division Marshal, Chas. H. Geiger.
This year there is to be a new fea-
ture in the parade. This will be men
in female attire upon horseback. A
member of the committee on arrange
ments states that assurances have been
received from forty persons that they
viii turn out On horseback. AS many
as can do So will use ladies side sad
dies. What the others will do is a
matter for conjecture at present.
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line street, with right resting on Six
tenth, and will move to Market, up
market to Tenth to Main, thence down
over the creek, returning to Sixteenth
street, where the parade will dlsband.
The committee expects large repre-
sentation from each OF the several
marching clubs, and requests that they
assemble at their headquarters and
mrach in body to the place of for
nation. The clubs or delegations will
be assigned to positions in line in the
order in which they report to the Chief
Marshal.
1t is understood that Carrie Chap
man Gait is to be impersonated by a
we'll known young man, and the Suffra-
gist's candidate will ride in carriage
and be assigned to a conspicuous place
in the column. A number of young
men have secured open carriages,
which will be deliberately decorated,
and in which they will ride. A num-
Der Of very elaborate costumes have
been planned, and big sisters are plac-
ing locks upon their wardrobes and
dresser drawers in anticipation of raids
by their masculine relatives.
The arrangement committee particu-
larly urges that the marchers enter into
the spirit of the parade, and so deport
themselves as to prevent any criticism
of their conduct. Any tendency to-
ward suggestiveness in conduct or
speech, will be discountenanced by the
committee, which has also requested the
police to prevent improper exhibitions.
Notwithstanding al this the propos-
ed Mother Hubbard parade has been
round1y denounced by women, particu-
larly by members of the local branch
of the Woman Suffrage Association.
They allege that past demonstrations
OF this character have been disgraceful
exhibitions; and that the proposed
Mother Hubbard parade should be sup
pressed, if for no other reason, because
of the temptation it offers, and the OPP
portunity it presents, for young men
to indulge in obscene language, and
suggestive conduct. They allege that
such exhibitions have disgraced former
parades of a similar character, and that
in any event it is vulgar, unbecoming,
and shows lack of the respect every
gentleman should accord to the oppo-
site sex.