The Washington times., 1913-03-08

the following day. and those who had
come from far away points to parfici-
pate or view the greatest honor this
l'nation can best0w. on its Chief were
Iightfully indignant at the selfish. in
considerate and unpatrotic action of
these intruders endeavoring to steal and
appropriate the majority Of the inau-
gural event.
The woman of the country would have
been the first to rise in indignation II
the day mad been given to a parade
by the knights of Labor, Catholic or
eanization. or a Masonic demonstra-
ton and I firmly believe that II was
resentment by most Of the spectators 1T
than any other cause, that made the
policing OF the Avenue so very difficult.
We must also consider that at the
eleventh hour the suffragets. under the
woman's inborn right to- change her
mind, contracted the length Of the pa
rade almost by one half. which in itself
congested the crowd doubly.
Congress itself is to blame in that
authority for the closing of traffic was
not granted until the evening before,
was within a few minutes Of the start
of the marching. these cars discharging
thousands into the middle Of the street.
whom the crowd on the curb would not
permit under the ropes.
Added to all this our President-elect
was due to arrive. at an overcrowded
station almost at the identical time Of
the starting time Of this reproach on
and the major himself were more neces-
sary at that point protecting him than
women who haunt their motto Of equal
ity and scOrn mans protection at any
other time or way.
The women wearing the insignia Of
Votes for Women were the most ag-
gressive, crowding, and hardest for the
police to control Of all the spectators
in my neighborhoods and constantly
fought among themselves for equal.
believe the police of Baltimore and
Washington combined could have con-
trolled such a crowd or fifty officers to
a square could have kept the Avenue
clear under the conditions of the third.
j. JEROME LIGHTFOOT.
To the Editor Of THE TINES:
/ am boy Of ten. l am going to be
a boy scout in two more years Then
l can help the ladies. too. While stand
ing in front of the Treasury / saw an
automobile full of officers who took no
notice Of what was going on at all. /.
think the suffragettss were % very badly
treated. ALBERT DOWELL i
1888 T street northwest.
To the Editor of THE TINES;
1 desire to make statement as to
Mondays suffrasist ypaxade. First the
unworthy sunf1geftess did sget all the
protection that they deserved. Some
Senator had a relative in the so-called
parade, and the people who. viewed the
parade didn't assist her as The had or
dered, 50 he started an investigation al
most before the parade was over.
I should like to ask some of the suf-
fragettes, which would have been best.
to have the whole police force to have
guarded their parade and let President
Wilson go unprotected from Union Sta
ton to his qua .ers, or have the force
divided? WhatSa howl there would
have been IL the major had not sent a
portion of his men to Union Station to
meet the President. This must be taken
in consideration, every story has two
sides, and il the suffragettes could see
both sides there would be no suf-
fragettes.
The conduct Of some Of the suffra-
gette officials was much worse than
that of the so-called ruffians. One wom-
an in particular, who was on horseback.
tried to commit murder with her horse
by attempting to run over the specta-
tors. A drunken person would have
known better than to deliberately rice !