Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-10
OF MARCH 8
Trouble Which Followed SUI
fragists' Parade Discussed.
CLERGYMAN GIVES VIEWS
Rev. DR.. C. Ernest Smith an Advo-
cate Of Fair Play.
OPINION OF WOMAN WRITERS
One Criticises the Pageant Manage
ment, the Other Condemns the
Police Department.
CLERGYMAN GIVES VIEW
OPINION OF WOMAN WRITERS


Star on the subject of the suffrage pa
upon the broad questions involved, and
do not treat Of the detailed circum-
stances, which are subject to the pres
ent investigation, they will be given
publication. Some Of them follow:
Views Of Rev. DR.. G. Ernest Smith.
Rev. DR.. C.. Ernest Smith writes as
follows:
I desire to express my thanks for
your timely editorial. Fair Play All
Around on the police versus suffra-
gist procession, all the more to be COM
mended because in striking contrast
with other editorials elsewhere. to
which we have been treated.
There appears to be disposition to
hang the accused first and try them
afterward - always an unfortunate
method Of procedure particularly If.
when too late, 1t be found that the
accused were entitled to a verdict of
not guilty. AS to the existence of
this disposition. witness the deplor-
able incident Saturday, when a promi-
nent clergyman OF this city was ac-
tually Kissed simply because testimony
as to what he saw and heard was un-
palatable to those who were anxious
for condemnation at all hazard. In all
such cases what is wanted in the first
instance Is not condemnation, but the
truth.
Situation Unprecedented.
Admittedly. the situation March 3
was unprecedented, and therefore it
would, in any event, have been not at
all surprising to find some policemen
grievously failing to rise to the occa-
sion. but is that any reason, now that
q judicial inquiry Is proceeding, why
the police department from the bottom
up should be attacked and held UP to
scorn as utterly incompetent? Hereto
fore 1t has not been SO regarded. Is
this, however, but an illustration Of
the known fact that IL you do ninety
nine things well and yet fail on the
one-hundredth all the ninety and nine
good things go for nothing?
police or the merits Of the present
controversy, Is it not grossly out Of
order to conduct a one-sided campaign,
the effect Of which can only be to rem
justly and without prejudice toward
all the parties concerned?'
'sWays Past Finding Out"
Mary l. Norris voices her sentiments
in the following words:
1.-THE ways of the suffragists are past
finding out and the safest rule to desig-
nate them by is that trouble always
there occurred in our city the first dem
onstration Of It's kind ever given. Many
women participated voluntarily in a show
which they must have known would In
wife jeers and deriSion. That they came
through 1t rs well as they did should be
~ Ahnf~ oolf {tr1 Ion
They had previously insisted and reiter-
ated that they needed no police protection
whatever. Today they are angrily con-
demning the police for not protecting
them.
''Their loudest protestations and de-
mands are for the right Of men. and yet
remarks aimed at them by hoodlums
who in their ignorance believe them still
to be women are taken as insults, and
the police are upbraided because they
laugh at them. They show remark
ably yellow streak-there Is nothing
game about them. Would men whim-
per and whine because few rufifans
in the mob they had courted said some
thing insulting? Would men demand the
dismissal Of man who had rendered
faithful service for years because Of a
sudden personal Crouch?
Compared With Inauguration Day.
''The police had very small task Tues
day. compared with Mondays. 1t is COM
paratively easy to keep order in a crowd
that is in sympathy with the public dem
onstra4ion. The crowds OF people Tues
day were in sympathy with the inaugu-
ration Of their President, anxious and
eager to witness and to participate in It
by their orderly presence. The people OF
Washington were shocked and con-
temptuous at the sights and sentiments Of
Monday.
Many of the offenders Monday were
women. who jeered. The police cannot
handle a crowd OF women as they could
men. They could not use their batons on
the heads OF women, much as they might
wish to.
why not go the whole scheme. suffra-
gettes. and be game! Emulate little
the men whom you want to be. A man.
nish stride. a deep bass voice and bold
stare are not all Of a mans makeup.
Take what comes
Raps the Police Department.
Mrs. Stuart Mostly Coleman writes:
Those defending MONDAYS ont