The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-31
P|LGR|MS RALLY
IN WASHINGTON
Sixty Automobile Loads of suffrae-
cites Flock to the Senate Hall
and Present Their
Petition.
BATTLE ALMOST WON
Senator'S Reosived tho Ladies' courte-
ously and Deliver Speeches
Which Are Full Of
Tafty.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
WASHINGTON, July 31.-That the
battle for equal suffrage throughout
the United States is almost won, was
the burden Of speeches delivered by a
half dozen senators to the Suffrage
pilgrims" rallied from two score
states at Hyattsville, Washington
suburb. early today before the fair
enthusiasts started on their auto
parade to the capitol Sixty motor
cars, gay with the yellow and white
Of the cause made their way for
six miles through friendly territory
to the halls Of congress-. Crowds on
the down town streets cheered the
demonstration.
The end of the journey was found
in the historic marble room at the
senate. Here the pilgrims" sent I'M
their cards to their respective sena-
tors and placed In their hands the
petitions, aggregatng over $4,000
names, which they had gathered with
in the six weeks as they joursed
across the east and middle west
l \ uOS6 WuO 0AlSAuSu Iu0 bCAuL0 .
WELCOME and encouragement were
ISenators Owen Of Oklahoma; Works,
of California: Lane, Of Oregon; Ash
hurst. Of Arizona: Thomas, Of Colo
rado; Poindexter, Of Washington:
: Sherman, of Illinois. and Jones, Of
sWashington.
Delegations representing every state
in the union were in the line of march.
. The paraders were afoot, on horse
. back, in carriages and on floats in
: classic costumes. When the parade
. began there was every Indication that
the washington police department.
would not repeat the mistake 1t made
on March 8, last, when insufficient
! patrolling of the streets permitted
: hoodlums to break up the parade by
: swarming into the floats and carriages
: in which young and elderly women
. were trampled and in some cases su-
:. jected to insult.
!. The paraders made the pilgrimage
4 to Washington by automobile, by boat
and by train. Along the way they
a gathered thousands Of signature to q
It lpetition urging congress to tmmed
a. late favorable action on the proposed
q measure to give women the vote. Or
ia floats representing the various states
"a the women and girls were costumed tc
8 represent the figures in the seals o1
,r their respective states.
"a Early this morning the sufrags
forces we're modified at the little
10 Maryland town of Hyattsville. eigh
II miles from the capitol building. Mayor
9. Harry Shepard delivered an addres,
h. of welcome when the pilgrims reach
,s ed the town park where a grand re
IN view was conducted by Miss Alice
Paul and Miss Lucy Burns of the ma
tional congressional committee. Th'
suffrage colors were run to the top o
tall Flagstaff the moment the frs
II delegation, travel.worn. stepped int
ly the reviewing grounds. An crderl.
", crowd of several thousand witnesses
of these preliminaries.
S. Among the paraders were Miss Jear
M nette Rankin, president of the Nor
he tana suffrage organization. with
lg- party which came all the way D
pit automobile; Miss Harriet May Mill:
es president of the New York associf
on ton, who has just completed tou
ay of the empire state in carava
nd