The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-02-20

fenaSsu w a Demonstration
winch 5rought the Police to the Can
itol--lneidents Like Those Now oe-
curing In London.
Rampant Women Sutfra gists'' in th.
scare head ON the leading story ns
the Kansas City Times of forty wears
ago. The incidents of the story are NOT
unlike those of the stories which an
pear almost every day in the London
Times of the present.
The story il dispatch from Wash
ington dated Jan. II, 1872. Many OF
the women who were, leaders in the
movement are widely known today.
Miss Susan e. Anthony, Mrs. Stanton
Josephine Hooper and Vie~eria Wood
hull are mentioned as being lin the
ranks that filed up the passage leading
up to the committee room with grim
faces and loud, excited voices" I'm
der the first bank of the headline IL
the line, Three Hundred and Odd
Strong Mil$led Creatures. on Duty
Bent" The last bank of the head
states that They Refuse to Listen TO
EntreatieS and Are Treated to Police
CourtesieS '.....-..
A woman suffrage convention had
been in session in Washington for four
days. and the story refers TO the feel
ing of unrest and dissension which
has pervaded the very air of the city
during that time" Just four years
previously the fourteenth amendment
was added to the constitution Of the
United States to give the right of the
ballot to the recently freed slaves.
''All persons born or naturaliZed i'm
the United States and subject To the
jurisdiction thereof are citizens Of the
United States and of the state wherein
they reside says the amendment.
While this was intended solely for the
benefit of the former slaves. the suffra-
gettes saw in it ''the opportunity for us
to throw off the ShackleS which have
CALLED and chafed our oppressed sex
through all time" as one Of the eIo-
Quent speakers had said in the conven-
ton.
Slaves. slaves. Tell ME of the Ell
shaved race which has knet to the
tyranny Of mans oppression SO long
and suffered so much as we. Then if
this amendment is to set the negro
slaves Of men upon the pedestal OF
equality it shall also give to women
the right which has been her fondest
hope and dream through all these CEN
turtles"
The convention moved i'm body TO
the committee room Of the senate.
where the question was to be debated.
The women gathered in the corridor
outside the room to wait for the ar
rival of the committee. And so un-
merous were the 'gentler sex that the
members of the committee could not
get to their room until the sergeant-at-
arms called upon the women to clear
the way" relates the Times. HE ex-
postulated with the female sufffagists
and besought them to consider, but
all to no effect Not one would move
to either side for fear of losing her
chance to get into the room.
'Finally large force of police were
summoned, and they went forward
and pushed the fluttering mass OF erin
oline back far enough to allow Trum-
bull and the other senator's TO march
into the committee room Speeches
were made by Mrs. Stanton and others
i'm which it was argued that the four
teenth amendment gave to women the
right to vote. Such scene has never
been witnessed in the capitol before,
and in the. case Of their being men
there would have been numerous ar
rests, as there would i'm this case Ii
these women had obtained their
rights"