The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
5000 Will March In Order to
Spur on Cause of Equal
Suffrage
TABLEAUX ON STEPS
TREASURY BUILDING
Thousands of Women Attracted to
Washington--Many Mass Meetings
Held and Enthusiasm Runs High.
Police Guard Meetings in
Certain Localities

Washington. March 2.--Women will hav'
a gala day in washington tomorrow, {
fete and pageant day to spur on the caus'
OF equal franchise and to impress upoI
the minds of men who are to rule th'
government after March their demand
for an amendment to the constitution en-
franchising women.
5000 Women in Line
Plans for a suffrage procession have
been made on a most elaborate scale, anc
1000 women who are expected to partici'
pate in the pageant which will move VI
Pennsylvania avenue from Peace monu.
ment to the treasury building and ther
to Connecticut hall, where monster suf.
frage meeting will be held.
Riyaling in interest the preliminary
events of the Inauguration programme
the suffrage demonstration has attracted
thousands of women to washington from
all sections of the country, and many
mass meetings were held today and to-
night in different sections of the city,
Accompanying the procession tomorrow
which will consist of seven divisions, vii
be an allegorical tableaux on the steps OF
the treasury building, in which will be
Columbia, summoning to hei
side Justice, Charity, Liberty, Plenty
Peace and Hope. These, attended by
groups of maidens, will view the process
sion, after which they win assemble anc
follow to the hall, where the final rally
Of the day win be held.
Progress of Movement
Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson will be the
grand marshal of the parade and Miss
Inez Milholland of New York is herald
Sections OF the parade will repre-
sent the progress and meaning of the
suffrage movement. The first section
will typify the world wide movement for
woman suffrage and will be headed by
Mrs. Carrie e. Chapman Gait, president Of
the International Suffrage alliance
WeIaen from all countries where suffrage
prevails win march IN this SECTION. The
second section Will represent "ib years
struggle for freedom, or justice conquer
ing prejudice" and will be exemplifod IN
a series of floats to be piloted by Mrs.
Harvey w. Wiley. Miss Grace Ross, Miss
Hitchcock, Miss Hazel Roberts
and a mounted brigade of suffrage women
The third section is to portray the idea
that imam and woman make the state;
man alone rules the state" Floats here
will reveal women in the field, the farm,
the home, in patriotic service. In educa-
tion, medicine, law. labor, government
and other fields of endeayor.
THE appeal of business and the pro-
fessions' will be the motto of the fourth
af "a
OF the sixth section. The fifth section
will comprise uniformed women
ma rchers and the seventh section will
consist of delegations from states where
has been wholly or partly
granted.
DR.. Shaw Heads Parade
Nearly all of the women marchers Will
be gaily uniformed and the floats and
golden chariots that are to appear have
been prepared with regard for the beauti-
full The parade will be headed by Of
ficers of the National American Women
association, including Dir. Anna
Howard Shaw, president.
Two large suffrage meetings guarded by
policemen were held this afternoon at
Iccal theatres. The suffrage question was
discussed by speakers who placed upon the
shoulders of the men the burden of the
white slave traffic. child labor and under
paid women workers in the sweatshops
and factories of the larger cities of the
At the larger meeting more than
$500 was collected to aid in financing the
pageant of tomorrow In many cases the
came from men.
Mrs. Gait Principal Speaker
Mrs Carrie Il. Chapman Gait, who made
the principal speech, entered upon a gem
eral history of the suffrage movement
md then charged the protectors of wom-
an with responsibility for all the evils
inder which the women of today are suf-
'ering. She declared that if these same
would give the women the
vote "they would be their own protect
1rs" She charged Senator Eihu Root
With ignorance of history when he recent
v said the question regarding woman $
was whether granting them the
franchise would give the country better
in introducing the speakers Mrs Har-
let stanton Blateh breathed defiance OF
he anti-suffraglsts; and said: 1--WE here
md now throw down tho gauntlet to all
ne miserable anti-suffragists in the coun-
-ry," and that when they declare the
women Of the country do not want to
sote, they lie
Gen" Rosalie Jones, who led the
mixers" from New York. also spoke
,riefly and introduced to the audience the
members of her army" all of whom
sat in the front row on the stage. Other
speakers Were Miss Inez Milholland, Mrs
raymond Brown and Miss Maude Young
" of California. y