Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-03-04
Cavalry Called
TO AID 'SUFFS'
FIVE THOUSAND WOMEN SUB
JECTS OF PUBLIC RIDICtLE
IN NATIONS CAPITAL.
HOODLUM CROWD SLURRIkC
Cayalrymcn Charge Crowd 10 Clear
Passage: Insulting and Lcwd Re-
marks Heard ON Every side.

WASHINGTON, March 3. - Five
thousand women, marching in the
woman suffrage pageant today prac-
tcally fought their way foot By foot
UP Pennsylvania avenue, through a
surging mob that completely delied the
Washington police, sWamped the
marchers and broke their procession
into little companies, The women,
trudging stoutly along under great
difficulties, were able to complete their
march only when troops of cavalry
from Fort Meyer We're rushed into
Washington to take charge of Penn
sylvania avenue. No inauguration has
produced such scenes. which in many
instances amounted to nothing less
than riots.
Later in Continental hall, the wom-
en- turned what was to have been a
suffrage demonstration into an indig-
nation meetings in which the Wash
Ington police were roundly denounced
for their inactivity and resolutions
were passed calling on President elect
Wilson and the incoming congress 70
make an investigation and locate tho
responsibilities for the indigrities the
marchers suffered Miss Helen Keller,
the noted deaf and tlind girl was 50
exhausted and unnerved by the eX-
perience in attempting to reach
grand stand where she was to have
been guest of honor, that she was
unable to speak later at Continental
hall
Struggel With the Mob.
The scenes which attended the en-
try OF General Rosale Jones and her
mixers" on Thursday, when the be-
draggled women had to fight their
way up Pennsyvania avenue ,swamped
by mob which the Washington police
struggled with. was repeated today,
but on a vastly larger scale. The
marchers had to fight their way from
the start and took more than one hour
in making the first ten blocks. Many
of the women were in tears under the
ieers and insults that lined the route.
Although stout wire ropes had been
stretched up and down the length or
Penunsylvania avenue from the peace
monument to the mall behind the
White House, the enormous crowds
that gathered early to obtain points
of vantage oVerstepped them or crawl
ell beneath. Apparently no effort was
made to drive back the trespassers
in the early hours, with the result
that when the parade started it faced
at almost every hundred yards solid
wall Of humanity.
Rcsents Scurrilous Remark.
On the whole it was hostile crowd
throuh which the women marched.
Miss Inez Milholland, herald OF the
procession, distinguished herself by
aiding In riding down mob that
blocked the way and threatened to
disrupt the parade Another woman
member of the 'petticoat cavalry,
struck hoodlum a singing, blow
~ Jss the face with her riding whip
IN reply to a scurrious remark as she
was passing The mounted police
rode hither and yon but seemed pow.
erless to stem the tide of humanity.
A group OF hoodlums gathered in
front of the reviewing stand in which
sat Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen Taft
and half dozen invited guests from
the White House They kept up a
running fire of caustic comment APP
parently no effort was made to remove
them, and evidently disguised. the
White House party left before the
procession had passed in its haltins
and interrupted journey toward Con-
tinental hall,
Then They Shiyercd.
The tableaux on the steps of the
treasury building, framed in the great
columns and the broad stairway of
the government treasury house, were
begun when the parade started from
its rendezvous at the base Of the cap
itol. Beautiful in colorlng and group
ing. the dramatic symbollzatiOn OF
women's aspirations for political free
dom was completed long before the
head of the parade was in sight.
In thin dresses and bare arms. they
stood shlverlng for more than an hour
and finally they were forced to seek
refuge within the building
Around the treasury department the
crowds were massed so tightly that
repeated charges by the police were
seemingly ineffective. 1t was as
though the bluecoats charged stone
wall Occasionally the mob gave way
in one place. only to break over and
under the wire hedge at some othei.
Cavalry Charges Crowd.
When the cavalry suddenly APP
peared, there was wild outburst Of
applause in the reviewing stands. The
men In brown virtually brushed aside
the mounted and foot police and took
charge. In two lines the troops charg-
ed the crowds Evidently realizing they
would be ridden down. the mobs
fought their way back. When they
hesitated. the cavalrymen. under the