Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-03
Complete for Par
ade Today in Which More
Than Five Thousand Women
Are Expected to March,
SYMBOLIC FLOATS
SHOW MANS INJUSTICE
Meetings Held in Tbeaters Are
Addressed by Mrs, Carrie
Chapman Catt General
RosaHe Jones and Others,

tIly Norning journal special Leased wirel
Washington, March Women Will
have il gala day In Washington tomor-
row fcte and pageant day TO speak
on the cause of equal franchise. Plans
for suffrage procession have hecn
made on NEST elaborate scale and
5000 women are expected to particle
pate In the pageant which win move
up Pennsylvania avenue from Peace
monument 20 the treasury building
and then 10 Continental hall, where
monster suffrage meeting viii be
held Accompanying the procession
tomorrow. which will consist of seven
divisions. will be allcgorical tabeaux
on the steps Of the treasury building
In which will be imporsonuted colum-
bia summoning To her side justice,
charity, liberty. plenty peace and
hope. These, attended boy groups of
maidens. will view the procession, aft
er which they will assemble and fol-
low to the hall where the final rally
Of the day viii be held.
Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson will be
the grand marshal of the parade, and
Miss lnez Mulholland, Of New York,
it's herald. The first section of tine
parade Will typify the world vide
movement for woman suffrage. and
will be headed by Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait. president Of the lnterna-
tional Suffrage alliance. The second
section will represent "seyenty-five
years struggle for freedom. on justice
conquering prejudice" and will be ex-
lemplified ia series Of floats 90 be
piloted by Mrs Harvey w. Wiley, Miss
Grace Ross, Miss Katherine Hitch
cock, Miss Hazel Roberts and a
mounted brigade Of suffrage women.
The third section is to portray the
idea that imam and woman make the
state. man alone rules the state.
Floats here will reveal women in the
field. the farm. the home, in patriotic
service. in education, medicine labor.
government and other fields Of en-
deavor. "'rhe appeal of business and
the professions will be the motto of
the fourth section the appeal OF the
states" that of the sixth section. The
firth section will comprise un-uni-
formed women marchers, and the sev-
enth section will consist Of delega-
tons from states where suffrage has
been wholly or partly granted. Two
large suffrage meetings guarded by
policemen were held this afternoon at
local theaters The suffrage question
was discussed by speakers who placed
on the shoulders Of the men the bur
den of the white. slave traffic. child
labor and underpaid women workers
in the sweat shops and the factories
Of the larger cities of the country
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, who
made the principal speech, entered
upon a general history of the suffrage
movement and then charged the pro-
tectors Of women with responsibility
for all the evils under which the
women Of today are suffering She
declared that If these same protee-
tors" would give the women the vote
they would be their own protectors :
She charged Senator lslhu Root with
ignorance of history when he recently
said the question regarding women's
suffrage was whether granting them
the franchise would give the country
better government.
General Rosalie Jones. who led
the "hlkers' from New York. also
spoke briefly and introduced to the
audience the members of her army.
other speakers were Miss Inez Mul-
holland Mrs Raymond Pfown and
Miss Maude Younger. Of California.