The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-24
(National News Association

was not the slightest doubt in the
mind of Miss Alice Paul today as to
the grandeur of the pageant with
of equal rights will seek TO impress
President-elect Wilson and a Demo
cratic Congress with the popularity
of the cause" on March Sd. In fact
Miss Paul, who, by the way, is chair
woman of the Congressional commit
tee of the National Woman Suffrage
Association and the very head and
forefront of the parade movement
here, was of the opinion that after
the suffrage host had swept through
the spacious streets of the capital
there would be little else for the Gov
eminent to do but declare a speedy
constitutional amendment giving wom-
en- the ballot.
For the past two weeks, said Miss
Paul, staid, be-whiskered Senators and
bald though enthusiastic Congressman
have been gum-shoeing their way into
the suffrage headquarters at 1420F
street with declarations of fealty and
promises to march. In the vanguard
of this masculine army was Congress,
man Richmond Pearson Hobson, hero
of the Merrimac and originator oil
"Hobson's Kiss" Mr. Hobson is said
TO have signified his willingness to
enthusiasts which Will be incorporat
ed in the pageant.
Senator-elect Shafroth of Colorado
| having a keen eye for the future ant
an appreciation of the power of female
ballots in his state, has been insisten
that he be allowed to act as one o.
Mr.. Hobson's lieutenants. Whereupor
| Representative E. II. Taylor, of the
same state, and likewise of the sam.
brand Of perspicuity, came forward
with a demand that he also be allowed
to cruelty his personal comfort to saw,
his political hide in the six-mile marcel
of the suffrage column.
All this was most gratifying ant
Miss Paul was soon in receipt of OF
fers from the male Office holders o
most of the other suffragette states o
the union, though some of these VIII
solemnly plead the cause of the pee
pull the "com-mum pee-pul'-wer
said to have strenuously baked at
proposition to occupy a position in tn
parade just behind that of a negro, a,
imbecile and a woman in chains, eve
though James Lees Laidlaw, the Ne,
York millionaire, stood ready to OF
cupy prominent place on the float.
compromise is said to have bee
effected, however, by heading the maj
ly column of Senators. CongressmeI
ct al, with a banner inscribed wit
the legend, Women Helped to EleC
These Men" behind which will sprea
the Hobson phalanx. 1t is expecte
that about forty Senators and Coz
gressmen will be in line.
With the women themselves. how
ever, no such squeamish principle
We're evident. Amy number of hard
equal Fighters are said to stand read
to do any conceivable thing to hel
along the parade and most of 'em hav
had their bets called by the intrepi
and versatile Miss Paul and her abb
assistants.
The stunts set for these enthusiast
range from dOnnlng classic tnOuS
thin drapery on a day that is sure t
be more or less chilly to the mountin
astride of fractions ponies, and tn
garbing of ones classic limbs in-er-
fieshings.
Miss Anna Hall of Cincinnati, for II
stance, has been fitted with a neat an
becoming set of letters after the mo.
approved design of the Federal pen
tentiaries which she will drag throug
| the streets on March Sd, in token
| the bondage of woman.
And Miss Hall is going to wear 'el
| even if it does handicap her fligl
should those rude college boys mall
| good their threat to loose a bevy ,
mice in the midst of the lady marc
ers.
!. General Resale Jones, who is eve
: now leading suffrage army" to IL
gates of Washington, will also play
: prominent part in the parade. marc
ing at the head of her mixers" wit