The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-05-05
eyes straight ahead as If they had been
in dozen campa gns.
Gray Haired PiOnccrs Of suffrage.

eyes straight ahead as if they had been
! in a dozen camra Cns.
Gray Hatred P,onccrs of Suffrage.
An enthusiastic fife and drum corrs
from the Boy Scouts brought up the rear
Of this line and introduced the " omen =
Political Union SuifraGe Pioneer Group.
and when the crowd saw the banners
of that section they made up their minds
they wouldn't waste their time trying to
get rise out of anybody there They
were suffraGlsts Yeas ego. They had
battled for women : rights when fighting
meant hardship. and no,hing like the en-
,husiasm of the present day could iaze
them. The banners read: "Elizaheth Cadv
Stanton. Susan b. Anthony. Lucre,ia
Mot. Lucy Stone. Julia Ward Howe
and Isabelle Beecher Hooker"
Back of this notable organization came
victoria hidden in flowers II bore the
Rcv.. Antoineitc Brown Blackwell who
fought for suffrage back in is;s when they
used to call such women crazy.
Cheerful Really Truly Noters.
Then came blaze of color as the dele.
gation of women from the States and
counties whore thev do vote marched
along. The women of Norway. Sweden and
Finland we're IN their national costumes
and there were men there The women
Of wyoming. Colorado. Utah. Idaho
Washington and California followed and
some women in the crowd who ca-ri.d
yellow flags seemed 10 think that this
delegation rather held il over the others
We have voted for President" said
the Colorado women. we lead in laws
for the preservation of heakh." "Well.
they needn't get so superior about il :"
said A1ontclair woman; they couldn't
say il if their husbands hadn't given
IL 10 them"
lie. IL
vision of non suffrage States. hut the
crowd recognized principally the Rev
Anna II. Shaw, who marched N the head
OF IN" column "a" u member of the ex.Cu-
tive committee and Il fi.ld marshal IN lrauy
campaigns. From the signs and bsnncr-
which told of fights now on and fights TO
come II If evident that there ar. going
TO he troublous times in about fourteen
nearby States. to say nothing OF few
foreign countries in the newt year or two
Great Expectations.
connecticut awuns in with by dele
gation. and its hammers wor. all for the
fight they now hay On. kansa- followed.
ana Its more modest delegation wa, lust
g. optimistic. Then cam. MGrvlaud.
Massachusetts. which bore as its bonner
a picture OF Julia Ward Howe: Nebra.ka
New Hampshire and New Jersey
II is evident that New Jersey j.. pretty
well up in arms. The Mon,clair-. the
Oranges, the Piainfe Ids. Newark Jersey
City and Elizabeth. Ell he'd tnev trained
well uniformed Delegations. ;nd they
we're declrring peaceful battl" on every
banner There seemed To be = lot OF
patriotic Jersey people in tn" crowd too
for there We're all sorts OF cheers. f"n inin.
and masculine, applause with tn" hand-
and shouts of recognition
iIOOrRy: New York nnd China.
Rut all iho-e cheers were ~. nothing
when he New York State Suffrage Asso-
band HIaying the "Wa.hinpton Pos,
March. he'd by Miss Steele and preceded
hy.yeterans IN carriages
The New \orS sliiragist- were divided
into their politioel district. Ills, lik.
men political raradcrs and they had
been drilling somewhere They wore the
white gowns. the low hecled shoes. fhe
straw hats and he'd the yellow sashes
swung over their shoulders
The Twen,y-lifth Assembly district
might hav" been drilling for months tn.
way they swung along, while ,he Twelfth
added color end Narlety by pIsving up
China w omen vot" in China, but they
are classed with criminals and pauper, IN
New lOrn, -2ld one of their hammer.
just to make Il more realistic the marcher.
at the Twelfth carried Japane-. lanterns
and they had with them one or two women
ii'iil 'i' w W. "blI 'flt mothers
to vote. said cnothcr district
The Bronx came along with good dele
CATION divided into Assembly dist riots
and after II Were Kings. Q,'Iccns and
Richmond
1i0 N~m Greeted Politely.
Then came The men Gl9 of them by ac, nal
count. braced to take whatever the crowd
had 10 offer but ready TO die game They
did not get more than little persf,ape
9nd thny grinned. Ii was much harder
last year, some of the men said. although
they had feared the lateness Of IN. borir
might enable some onlookerS to think
Of some good ones they would not use
around O'Clock in the afternoon.
\fter New York city had passed its
d"leGa tons the people on the sidcwa lE
got an idea of what the upstate thinks
OF the movement. Nearly every county
in the State had its delegat ion some .
times it might only be- one woman. but
she carried her banner Just as brayely |
as il she had 2m back of her
Here Comes .IOan of Are.
Aibany had fineturnout. with bann or.
and ssireamors. One delegation had |
locked itself in with yellow ribbons |
hre" was diversion in thi. division
when Miss Nelly Van Slingerland came
along on horseback dressed up like Joan
of Arc, She headed the Joan of Arc ,
League, "A member Of winch was Miss I
Annie : Peck, who bore il,. "suyr age |