Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-04
PUT ROWDY|SM
TO SUFFRAG|STS
BEFORE WILSON
robe Of Police for
Failure to Protect
Marchers Urged.

WASHINGTON, March 4-Charges
that the police of Washington did not
properly protect yesterdays suffra-
gist parade were made in the House
early today by Representative Hob
son. of Alabama, who later declared
that he purposed to ask for an in
vestigation of the police department
during the extra session of Congress.
Mr.. Hobson told the House that the
congressional section of the parade,
led by Representative Rucker, of
Colorado, comprised a score of sena-
tors and representatives, who, starting
at arms length and four abreast.
finally were crowded into single file
by the erowding of the spectators and
that the police sided with the ruff
fans.
Il have been called over the tee-
phone saio Mr.. Hobson and told
by a lady that her daughter was in
one of the floats in the parade and
that ruffian climbed on the float
and insulted her daughter
Her daughter ought to have been
At home" interjected Representative
Mann. of Illinois, the Republican
leader. The remark aroused number
OF members
Scores Colleague.
"She had as much right there as
anyone, shouted Representative
Baker. of California;; "the gentleman
ought TO be ashamed of himself
Before Woodrow Wilson has been
President many hours he will have
placed in his hands, by the ncensed
suffragists, copy of the vigorous
resolution of denunciation they adopt
ed at their mass meeting last night
following their parade along Pennsy-
lvania avenue. The resolution reads:
Resolved that this meeting un-
dualifiedly censures and denounces
the shameful conduct of the police
during the suffrage pageant just
ended, which denied to the marchers
for suffrage their rights TO parade
freely and unmolested in the main
streets Of the capital and subjected
them to frequent ribald insult from
the crowds which all but over
whelmed them. To these insults the
police in many cases listened without
effort to repress, as they were but
mildly interested when the marchers
were compelled to go in single file.
Such mismanagement would have
been a disgrace in any city, but 1t
is doubly and trebly a disgrace in
the national capital. which belongs
to our citizens, men and women
alike,
Police Ineffective.
James .Laidlaw. of New York,
pres dent of the Mems National As
sociation in Favor of Votes for
Women. who was marshal of the
men in yesterdays parade, expressed
disgust today at the ineffective
police protection given the women
Yesterday His wife, one of the
countrys most prominent suffragists,
was in the parade
"Such inefficieney, such evident
lack of real desire to curb the mob
of hoodlums who heaped insults upon
the women" he declared, was a
disgrace TO the nation and this
capital. In New York city the police
never would have allowed crowd
TO behave itself In such an unseemly
manner The Washington police
force has made itself the shame and
the laughing stock of the world.
hope the responsible officials are
punished
Chief Sylvester, Of the Washington
police, declared today that the in
ability of his force to manage yester-
days spectators was not due to any
wilful neglect OF duty BY the men.
He said he did the best he could with
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