New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-18
WILL Be MIXED PARADE
Men Will Not March as Body in
Suffrage Tramp.
MRS. BLATCH TELLS WHY
Fact That Some Male Followers
of Cause" Will Ride
Brings Protests.

Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch explained
yesterday why the executive board Of the
Women's Political Union had decided to
have a mems section in the unions divis-
ion Of the suffrage parade May 3. Mrs.
Blatch says she is not insensibe TO the
desire of the Mems League for Woman
Suffrage to have as large a representation
as possible Of male marchers. and she
thinks herself il would look better if all
the men walked together; but chain Of
circumstances forced her executive board
TO act a. II did.
We always get a great many parade
signatures at our meetings. good many
mems signatures among them. she said
Yesterday. Last year we turned the
mems signatures over 10 the Men League
for Woman Suffrage
This year we intended doing the same
thing or else telling all men who signed
League at 18th street Then several things
happened.
When Mrs. John Rogers. ir.. chairman
OF the ball committee. was getting up our
list Regiment Armory ball last winter
was away i'm the Bahamas at the time
she went 10 the Mems League and asked
If she might have those signatures We
turned over to them. in order to send the
men announcements Of the ball. The sec
rotary of the league refused. She asked
il she might have some hired addressers
20 to the leagues Office and copy the sig
natures No. they wouldn't allow that
Then. she asked. would the league inclose
announcements OF the ball I'm its own no.
tices which IT sent out? That also was re-
fused.
The Mems League said IT could not
have its membership used in that way
| didn't know that the signatures We
sent were part of their membership.
About that time We found that notices
Of Woman Suffrage party benefit were
being received by some OF those very men
whose signatures We had given 10 the
Mems League
we still intended 10 tell the men who
signed our slip to fall IN with the Mems
League. But at a meeting OF the Equal
Franchise Society recently a letter from
Mrs Anna Garliu Spencer was read, ask
ing that the men and women march to-
cother In that society's division. Her
idea. ! suppose. was 10 avoid any appear
ance Of a sex war The Equal Franchise
Society voted to have it that way.
Then We found that the Mems League
was going 20 let those Of its members
who wished ride on horseback-was send
Ing out notices asking the men whether
IL q Of t.fIr
men came IN here. very indignant that
men were going 10 ride in a parade IN
which all women would walk. So my
daughter. Mrs de Forest. had to say TO
them: Wei, II YOU don't wish 10 walk
in "A section where men are riding the
Equal Franchise Society has a mems sec
ton. and so have We For by that time
our executive board had voted TO have
mems section. And that is all there is
10 it,"
The Equal Franchise Society has now
decided 10 have the husbands and wives
walk side by side TWO by TWO, as the ami
mails came out OF the Ark. This ~ 10
Difference 10 Mrs. Spencer. whose Letter
though Mrs Blatch didn't say so-was a
request % be allowed the escort Of her
husband In the parade Mrs. John Hayes
Holmes also pctitioned for the protection
Of Mr.. Holmes on MAY B. so petticoats and
trousers will meet and mingle on May :
behind the Equal Franchise Society's ban
ner. which banner will be borne by two
young girls and two boys. That is, unless
r. G. Bcadlc secretary Of the Men 3
League does something drastic 10 get
those men into his division. lie WAS In
"a MOOD for anything yesterday There
are. however. a good many men who con
denim severely the plan Of letting men ride
while tho women walk.