Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-02-23
|0FYO7EES AT SHRINE'
 | Of EQUAL RIGHTS. |cnffrage Host to Sweep
 1 Through Streets of Ma
 tional Capital.
auAFROTH IN PARADE
uomen Hope to Make Favorable fm- nression Upon President Wilson
 and Democratic Congress.

Washington, rep. 1A. hoi "o' mi the slightest doubt in the mind ! .e Mics Alice Paul today as to the 1 ndonr of the pageant with which ,romen devotees at the shrine of equal robts will seek to impress Presldent- o,oot wilson and a Democratic con- o,osc with the popularity of the | "oanse" on March 3rd. In fact Miss panl who, by the way, is. chairwoman of the Congressional committee of the ]! National Woman Suffrage Association 1 ond the very head and forefront of the parade movement here, was of inc opinion that after the suffrage host had swept through the spacious | ctreets of the capital there would be 1 lttle else for the government to do hut declare a speedy constitutional amendment giving women the ballot l For the past two weeks, said Miss Paul. staid, be-whiskered senators and bald though enthusiastic con- gressmen have been gum -shoelnS 1 their way into the suffrage headquar- ! ters at 1420-F stret with declarations | of fealty and promises to march. In the vanguard of this masculine army 1 was Congressman Richard Pearson Hobson. hero of the .Merrimack and 1 # .sIJahcoy,tc ice, | Hobson is said to have signified his i willingness to lead the charge of the men suffrage enthusiasts which will be incorporated in the pageant.
 Senator-elect Shaftroth, of Cobra 1 do, having a keen eye for the future and an appreciation of the power of female ballots in his state, has been nsistent that he be allowed to act as one of Mr. Hobson's lieutenants. Whereupon Representative E. R. Tay- Tor, of the same state, and likewise of the same brand of, perspicuity, cane forward with demand that he also be allowed to cruelty his personal comfort to save his political hide in the six-mile march of the suffrage column. J5 a -.,. s.sas+
 All this was most gratifying and Miss Paul was soon in receipt of of fers from the male office holders of most of the other suffrage states of the union, though some of those who sOlemnly plead the cause of the pee pull the "com-mun pee-puP'-were said to have strenuously baked at a proposition to occupy position in the parade just behind that of negro, an imbecile and a woman in chains, even though MT. James Lee Laidlaw, the New York millionaire, stood ready to occupy a prominent place on the float.
 Compromise Effected.
 A compromise is said to have been effected, however, by heading the manly column of senators, congress- men, ct al with banner inscribed With the legend Women Helped to Elect These Men, behind which will spread the Hobson phalanx. It is eX pected that about forty senators and eongressmen will be in line.
 With the women themselves, how eyer no such squeamish principles were evident. Any number of hardly eNual fighters are said to stand ready 'o do any conceivable thing to help aiong the parade and most of 'em nave had their bets called by the in 'repld and versatile Miss Paul and ner able assistants.
 me stunts set for these enthusiasts 'anse from donning classic though .n'n drapery on day that is sure to v more or less chilly to the mount 1sas astroe of fractious ponies. and ue garbing of ones classic limbs in- er-feshings.
 MISS Anna Hall of Cincinnati, for '''eance, has been fitted with neat anu becoming set of fetters after the ''0s' approved design of the federal ssn''entiarles which she will drag ousn the streets on March 3rd, in saen or the bondage of woman
 anu Miss Hall is going to wear lem V II It does handicap her flight .p0uld those rude college boys make sO0o their threat to loose a bevy of CTS. - ny ' 'n''' =
 'cheral Jones to Take Part.
 general Rosalie Jones, who is even . ss, leading a suffrage army to the s. '' or Washington. will also play 8 lnent part in the parade, march. s,s S at the head of her "hikers' with s. N same martial stride that carried f,s through the 25o-mile journe, .ss, A New York to the capital. Late
 oes from the general state tha1
 slll parade through Washington