The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
SUFFRAGETTE ARMY
IS REACHES CAPITAL
Big Demonstration Given
"Hikers" at Goal of $50
Mile Journey

Washington, February 2S.-"General'
Rosalie Jones and her suffrage army
marched triumphantly into the capital
today shortly before noon, through the
capitol grounds and down Pennsylvania
avenue with an escort of enthusiasts
and citizens which fairly choked the
streets and delayed traffic. 1t was one
of the most remarkable street demon
strations ever seen here.
The presidential Inauguration could
scarcely have presented a more enthu-
siastic spectacle than Pennsylvania
avenue from the capitol to the treasury
building after the plucky dishevelled
band of suffrage pilgrims swung
wearily around the Peace monument
for the final march of their $50 mile
walk to their cause
Incoming Presidents have not
received more clamorous applause than
did the company of brown clad women
huddled In a little group forced to fight
their way through veritable walls of
shouting humanity for more than a
mile of their historic hike
To prevent disruption of their col
umn General Rosalie Jones with her
tired comrades locked arms and in two
! policemen could clear the way for a
short advance.
~ TemptestuOus Demonstration
In every block they were halted re-
peatedly, the crowds greeting them
with tempestous demonstration. Men
and women alike braved the horses
hoofs and chugging automobiles of the
suffrage army escort to grasp the pill
grims' hands. Though no brass band
heralded the survivors who IL days
ago left New York for the advance on
Washington, a bedam of sound rent the
air from the moment the 'shikers"
were in sight of the capitol until they
were jammed into a struggling mass
of men, women. automobiles and car
riages before suffrage headquarters.
When the treasury was reached, so
dense was the mob that the police with
great difficulty cleared a narrow path
way through which the marchers could
pass TO the crowning glory of their
achievement, at suffrage headquarters
Here, as soon as she could get her
breath, General Rosalie Jones lifted
by Stalwart attendants to an automo-
bile addressed the crowd
Shouting through a megaphone the
message of equal suffrage and giving
thanks for the end of the long and
hazardous tramp of her army, she
She promised ito talk you to death
before she left Washington. For 90
minutes the marchers waited in. the
street until the police could disperse
the crowd, then they We're rushed into
the office of the suffrage workers
whence they were taken TO hotels for
a rest before luncheon.
The mixers we're greatly relieved
when informed oi the receipt of a
telegram from the national suffrage
headquarters announcing regret that
there had been a MISUNDERSTANDING
over who should deliver the suffrage
message to President-elect Wilson.
General Jones was assured that her
pilgrims would be permitted to take
the message provided an interview
with the new President can be ar
ranged
Anti-Suffragists Busy
The anti suffragists confined their
principal activity today to big mass
meeting held in one of the local thea
tres.
Mrs. Arthur NJ, Dodge of New York.
president of the National Association OPP
posed to Woman suffrage. presided The
speakers were Mrs. John Martin and Miss
Mirnie Bronson New York. and Miss
Lucy j. Price, Cleveland
Real progressivism is opposed to wom-
an suffrage, said Mrs. Martin. sgro say
that 'woman's place is in the home and
mean it today" she asserted, '.is the
broadcast and highest type of progressiv-
ism. Economonic Independence was a
gold brick which WAS sold to woman.
Women have accepted the bondage OF
work and have placed their neck under
the yoke, calling it freedom. Today they
are trying to sell their brthright for q
mess of political pottagen
Miss Bronson declared that democracy
was being given its great test in the big
cities and that giving the vote to women
would only serve to compIicate the al
ready difficult election problems. Less
than eight per cent of the women of the
country want the vote, she said. She re-
ferred to Mrs. Pankhurst as half insane
woman.
H0bson in Limelight
New York.. February 2S-At the Ma
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