The Washington times., 1912-05-05
SUFFRAGE PARADE
I. IN NEW YORK IS
]. EPOCH IN NATION
Startling Growth of Move
ment Shown by Procession
of $4,000 Marchers.

VIEW YORK, May 5-The tremendous
euthuslasm, the big showing and the
hish personnel of the suffrage parade
Yesterday form a topic of interest that
is country wide today.
ror' II Is recognized that the move
ment for women's votes has now
reached stage where 1t represents a.
dominant public question. 1t stands for
a principle which is making steady
progress, which looms large in the DO
ntical and economic life of the nation
and which can no longer be disregarded
by those who pretend to keep abreast
OF the times. The startling growth of
me movement is shown vividly by the
numoer or paraders who marched UP
FVfth avenue Yesterday. There were Is, =
ooo or these as compared to 5000 a year
ago and few hundreds in 1910
Moreover in yesterdays line of march
were women representative of all walks
OF endeavor, law, society, literature.
manual labor and medicine, and known
the world over as leaders of the sex.
And 1T Is worth remembering that these
women were exponents of home life in
Its highest aspect. Mothers and daugh-
ters who feel they were advancing the
IDEALS OF American social order by the
demanding of right to participate in
the ballot. Nor was their showing alone
more significant of the trend Of public
feeling toward suffrage than the ap-
pearance of men who marched with
them; not only college men, but men
who represent the thinking portion of
the city life.
The notable absence along the line of
march Of disrespect pointed to the hold
on the 100000 onlookers which the suf-
frage cause has taken.
q Those so-called conservative persons
who combat it now and hereafter will
find themselves in the same hopeless po-
sition as the ultra-conservatives in ma
tional politics who are making a vain
enort to stem the proGressives who now
form 50 per cent of the nations voting
army. They will be lost in the self-com-
placent fog Of their own blindness
Such women as Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, Miss Inez
Milholland and Miss Mary Shaw, ex-
|pressed today unbounded delight over
the success of the parade and they look
forward 10 a demonstration next year
which will prove even more clearly
that % vokes for women" now generally
accepted through the awakened West
must come soon to the sleeping East.
" The banners displayed the feminine
attitude toward the politicians of this
state. for the shelving of all efforts to
f. Murphy. leader of Tammany Hall
and Edwin Merritt, jr, came in for
scornful denumnciation for their anti
1uated prejudices against public senti-
:. ment.
Let military parades and others COM
posed of mere men take example from
! the sensational march of their sisters.
The latter started on time and their
hni han oN,,
a real enthusiasm from the Washing
tons arch to Carnegie Hall.
... Sixteen States There.
Sixteen States sent delegations with
twenty counties of New York State.
Moreover. as II to give an international
cir to the parade, there were women
, from Norway. Sweden and Finland
And one banner told a truth which
made many a man hang his head, for 1t
read: Women vote in China, but they
are classed with criminals and paupers
in New York"
No parade ever seen here was more
generally worth seeing. Mrs. Belmont.
like a general, at the head of the "Po-
lttical Equality Association the Rev.
Antoinette Blackwell. ninety-four years
and was called crazy then. smiled from
her carriage on thousands who now
thought her very sane and up-to-date;
the Rev. Anna Shaw attracted much
ATTENTION, and so It went. AS for the
women on horseback led by Mrs.
Charles Knoblauch. whose brother-in-
law wrote "K1smet' and "Milestones"
they furnished to a good many men an
example of how to ride gracefully.
Miss Milholland, whose beauty has
made her renowned, appeared in riding
breeches and top boots and others were
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