The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-03-05
SUFFRACETTES
ARE INDIGNANT
1any Injured During Parade
at Washington.
CHARGES AGAINST POLICE
Representative Hobson of Alabama
Declares He Will Ask an InvestIga-
tIon of Their Conduct at the Coming
Extra Session Of Congress.


tIon of Their Conduct at the Coming
Extra Session Of Congress.
Washington, March 5.-Suffragists
are preparing to press before the in
coming congress their demands for a
thorough investigation of the lack of
protection extended to them during
their parade. The ordeal through
which the marchers passed, however,
gained for them many sympathizers
and many supporters In places where
they had not looked for converts. Both
official and civic Washington is ablaze
with indignation at the treatment of
the women, which virtually scandalized
the national capital.
Had it not been for the opportune
appearance Of the cavalry in the
height of the crush it is possible that
a heavy toll Of life might have been
exacted. At it is there is more than
100 persons in the hospitals who are
suffering from broken limbs and other
injuries sustained in the crush of the
uncontrolled mobs.
Even the anti-suffragists who have
combatted the votes for women" cru
sade unremittingly expressed indigna-
tion at the sights placed on their sex
in the procession. They condemned
the police preparation and evidently
We're prepared to support their sis
ters in the other camp in their de-
mand that some explanation be made
sary protection.
Charges Against Police.
Charges that the police of Washing
ton did not properly protect the suf-
fragette parade were made in the
house by Representative Hobson of
Alabama, who later declared that he
purposed asking for an investigation
of the police department during the
extra session Of congress.
Mr.. Hobson told the house that the
congressional section of the parade,
led by Representative Rucker of Colo
rado, comprised a score of senators
and representatives who, starting at
arms length and four abreast. finally
were crowded into single file by the
crowding of the spectators and that
the police "scoffed with the ruffians."
Il have been called over the tele-
phone" said Mr.. Hobson, and told
by a lady that her daughter was on
one of the floats in the parade and
that ruffian climbed on the float and
insulted her daughter.
"Her daughter ought to have been
at home," interjected Representative
Mann Of Illinois, the Republican lead
er. The remark aroused a number of
members.
"She had as much right there as
any one," shouted Raker of Califor-
MIA, "the gentleman ought to be
ashamed Of himself"
Nelson Denounces Scenes.
A resolution for the investigation OF
the Washington police force because
of the riots during the suffrage parade
was offered in the senate and referred
at once to a committee
Senator Nelson declared the scenes
attending the suffrage parade consti-
tuted most disreputable affair and
disgrace to the police force"
James Laidlaw of New York, pres
ident of the Mems National Associa-
ton In Favor of Votes for Women,
who was marshal of the men in the
parade, expressed disgust at the inef-
fective police protection given the
women. His wife, one of the country's
most prominent suffragists, was in
the parade.
Such inefficiency, such evident lack
Of real desire to curb the mob of
hoodlums who heaped insults upon
the women" he declared, was a dis
grace to the nation and this capital.
In New York city the police never
would have allowed a crowd to be
have itself in such an unseemly man