New-York tribune., 1913-07-27

US On 10 W dSUlUS ION OuIt ultIC A'A
the suffragists From California, Mon
tana. Florida. Maine and way stations
they are advancing upon the Capitol
RAcklessly regardless Of the thermometer,
they predict for July 81 the most i'm
portant votes for women demonstration
this country has ever seen. There will
not be so many participants as in some
Of the great New York paradCs, or so
much money spent as there was for the
beautiful pageant al the Metropolitan
Opera House last May and for the tab
lesu on the Treasury steps the day before
inauguration. But the political signin-
cance of the events OF next Thursday is
already being felt just where the women
lntend-that is in Congress.
The idea Of the demonstration is brieny
this: To make every Congressman realize
the demand Of the men and women IN
his own district for an amendment 10
the Constitution which shall provide that
the right of citizens of the United states
10 vote shall not be denied or abridged
BY the United States or by any state
because Of sex
CoURlERs TO CONGRESS.
To prove this demand, me.tings have
been organized. resolutions passed and
petitions signed I'm the various Congress
districts. The couriers to Congress-as
the suffrasists who are Journeying from
all points of the United States are called
have stopped in each centre long enough
% collect the petitions and resolutions
which local suffragists have prepared lor
them.
The New York petitions started from NJ
agara Falls on the. Fourth OF July. Ihey
have been carried by motor. boat, ran
and caravan, "one-horse shay Dullt IN
l55s having been pressed into service. Al
svss1 one Of the New York city sunragc
headquarters visitors have been urged TO
sign the petition. Men and women OF
City different professions, from truck
drivers 10 lawyers. have signed. Mrs.
James Lees Laidlsw has carried the peu-
ton by automobile into every corner ana
quarter Of New York, where the men ol
the street have affixed their awkward
signatures Mr. and Mrs. Laidla" VIII
both 20 as couriers to Washington MI
Laidlaw representing the National Men 5
League for Woman Suffrage and Mrs
Laidlaw the Woman Suffrage party.
Another delegation from New YORK "id
represent the National Woman suffrage
Association They are going by auto
mobile through New Jersey. The party
includes Mrs. Mary Ware bennett secle-
tary Of the national. Mrs. Frances
Maule Biorkman. Miss Helen Iodo' Oi
California, and Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr'
MIDSUMMER DASH FOR POLE
MIS- Susan Walker Fitzgerald is leader
Of Boston automobile party Which -
making a picturesque midsummer oasr
for the pole" and Mrs. Madde Noou
Park and Miss Margaret Foley are h
charge Of another automobile party "hIch
has been covering Massachusetts. Mfs'
John Tierney Is motoring from NashVlie'
Tenn. and Miss Jeanette Rankin from
Montana At Atlantic city and Ocean
City two ardent suffragists. Miss Mabel
Vernon and Miss Edith Marsden. nave
gone about in decorated roller chairs, cir
culaung the petition.
Kentucky is sending an ardent suhrasiSt
aged eighty-pine. Mems leagues are CON
tented with representatives VINO VIII
travel by train TO show their Senators
that we voters are TO- IT," But however
the suffraeists come and wherever they
are coming from, ii is certain that they
have lost no chance on the way TO collec'
names. distribute literature and give voice
10 their faith.
AUTOMOBILE PARADE TO CAPITOL
All the couriers will assemble in Hyatts-
vile, Md, early in the morning OF the
est They will be received in the park
ey the Mayor and prominent citizens OF
nc town. The officers Of the Nauonai
suffrage Asgociation-Mrs. Mary Ware
bennett, Of New York; Mrs. Stanley NC
~ormick and Mrs Susan W. FitzGeraid'
ei Boston, and Mrs. James Lees Laidla"'
OF New York-snd members Of the Con
gressionai committee-Miss Alice Paul, oi
Philadelphia. ard Miss Lucy Burns, OF
brooklyn-with committee Of local sur
Hagists, will head the automobile parade
ron Hyattsyille 10 Washington, ana
sicrg Pennsylvania avenue 70 the Capitol
"here the huge mass of petitions Will be
presented. That evening a banquet VIII
De given at the Brighton Hotel.
WHY GO TO WASHINGTON?
Why should the suffragists be on the
way TO warm Washington in July wheh
they might be comfortable in Maine, the
white Mountains or the Yellowstone
why poster Congressman, who have