The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-10
TIE GRAND MARCH
Of SUFFRAGET [
Victory Of Equal Suffrage at the
Polls Tuesday. Was Celebrated
BY Twenty Thousand In
Grand Parade.
MEN PART ALSO
TMe 1. thousand People in Line, Red
Blazed and Battle Hymn Of
the Cause Was
Sung.

IUCited Press Leased Wire Service.1
NEW YORK. Nov. 9.-The suffrage
cause triumphant held New York in
its sway tonight from seven O'Clock
until midnight. while 10000 men and
women of every nation and caste,
marched, sang and preached the doc
trines of the cause'' from F1fty-ninth
street and Fifth avenue down to Union
Square and Broadway
On horseback, in automobiles, on
floats and on .oot, men and women in
costumes Romanic, and fenininely
militant, marched and rode amid a
glare of red fire and the smoking light
of torches.
Five thousand men, the braver OF
them jauntily disporting red and
white coclsades and all flirting with
kerosene torches that spluttered
dangerously, were a part of the
Igrotesque caravan that was led by
Mrs. Beatrice Forbes-R obertson, dress
ed in white robes and seated on a
Isnowwhite horse.
Stretched behind her, in gaily
colored array were floats, white robed
suffragettes a-horseback and delega-
! tions OF men and women from Little
italy" Jewish men and women,
young and old from the congested east
side; colored men and women, from
the downtown San Juan hill district,
and varied array of cosmopolitan
fcitizens, including q load of solemn
i Cinnamon IN automobiles from Mott
land Pell and Hester streets. the heart
.fof Chinatown.
/ The latter delegations from the
Itwenty-third assembly district, were
lied by Miss Cornelia Swinnerton OF
the college settlement.
4 Among the floats were those rep
resenting states-Arizona, Michigan.
! Kansas and Oregon, which attained
suffrage at the last election. En-
throned in them was snffragette
from each of the states, with the ex-
4 ception of the Michigan float, which
was in charge OF Miss LaF'ollette,
daughter of Senator LaFollette, OF
Wiscon. golden chariot, drawn by
lInez Milholland, led the separate state
I floats.
! Following the floats came twenty
white-robed suffragettes with trump
cts. They were followed by 200
: voiced choir chanting the suffrage
battle hymn. Behind them came 9
tableaux formation, bearing the light
ed banner, "The Spirit Of Seventy
Six led by twelve year old Miss
Alice Cody, the youngest suffragette
in the parade. and followed by twen
ty-fve young women In colonial cos
tunes, beating drums.
: ALI the political parties, and many
social and educational societies were
represented. The socialists had {
mixed delegation of nearly 1000 ane
the progressives and democrats con
tributed a large quota of marchers.
Many of the men, in lieu of ths
: torches, carried electrically Lighted
batons, which they flashed on and off
) In automobiles rode Mrs. Anna II
5 Shaw, president OF the Woman's Ma
tional Suffrage League: Maude Ma
lone, now awaiting trial for hayint
disturbed President-elect wilson
meeting in Brooklyn during the latte
part of the campaign; Mrs Elizabeth
stanton Blatch, chairman of the stat
suffrage association, and Mrs. Olive
H. P. Belmont, head of the woman
equal political union.
4 Following the parade and stuml
speaking up and down Broadway from
t Longacre to Union Square there wa
], a big mass meeting at Carnegie hall
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