The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-04
WOMEN IN WASHINGTON COM
INSULTING REMARKS.
CAVALRY TO THE RESCUE
Trudaing Marchers Able to Proceed
Only When Troops Ride Down IN
ruly Crowds--lndignatio Meeting
Follows and investigation Is De-
manded-Parade Itself Is a Success.

Washington, March Five thou
sand women, marching in the woman
suffrage pageant today, virtually
fought their way foot by foot up
PENNSYLVANIA avenue, through a surg
ing mob that completely defiod the
Washington police, sWampcd the
marchers and broke their procession
into little companies. The women,
trudging stoutly along under great
difficulties, We're able to complete
their march only when troops of cav
airy from Fort Meyer were rushed
into Washington to take charge of
PENNSYLVANIA avenue. No Inaugural
ton ever produced such scenes. which.
in many instances, amounted to moth
ing less than riots,
Later, in Continental hall, the
women turned what was to have been
a suffrage demonstration into an in
dignation meeting in which the Wash
ington police were roundly denounced
for their inactivity and resolutions
We're adopted calling upon President
elect Wilson and the incoming con-
gress to make an investigation and
fix the responsibility for the indignitcs
the marchers suffered. Miss Helen
Keller, tho noted deaf and blind girl,
was 50 exhausted and unncrved by the
experience in attempting to reach a
grandstand where she was to have
been a guest of honor. that she was
unable to speak in Continental hall.
Fight From the Start.
The scenes which attended the en-
ar "(innnr1I'f Rn9D1in .InnpE and
her mixers on Thursday when the
bedraggled women had to fight their
way up Pennsylvania avenue, swamped
by a mob with which u Few policemen
struggled In vain, were repeated to-
day but upon q vastly larger scale.
The marchers had to fight their way
from the start and took moro than
one hour in making the first 10 blocks
Many of the women We're in tears
under the iibcs and insults from the
mob that lined the route.
Although stout wire ropes had been
stretched UP and down the length of
Pennsylvania avenue from the Peace
monument to mall behind the White
House. the crowds ovcrstepped them
or CraWlcd beneath. Apparently no
effort was made to drive the tres
passors in the early hours, with the
result that when the parade started
it faced an almost solid wall of hu-
manity every hundred yards.
Hostile Crowd.
On the whole 1t was a hostile crowd
through which the women marched.
Miss Inez Milholland, herald of the
procession. distinguished herself by
aiding in riding down n mob that
blocked the way and threatened to
disrupt the parade, Another woman
struck a hoodlum u stinging blow
| across the face with her riding crop
| in reply to Il scurrilouS remark as she
was passing. The mounted police
| humanity.
HoodIums.
IIoodlums assembled in front of the
reviewing stand, in which sat Mrs.
| Taft and Miss Helen Taft and a half
| dozen invited guests from the White
| House kept up running fire of caus-
tic comment. Apparently no effort
was made to remove them, and, pres
entity. disgusted. the White House
party left before the procession had
passed In It's halting and interrupted
| journey toward Continental hall.
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