The Washington times., 1913-03-04
POLICE DENOUNCED
FOR |NEFF|C|ENCY
Iffrage Mass Meeting Passes
Resolution condemning the
Capital Department.


peclarieEs. that the women should
We been AFFORDED better police Protec-
'on tor the pageant than that provided
o. the Officers here yesterday, speak
IS at the big mass meeting in Cont
ntal Hall, following the close of the
, -0cezsinp. bitterly condemned the in
.ficient poIicsng'' OF the parade route.
and scored The Attitude OF men toward
omen all over the world.
resolution Introduced by Oswald
arrison Willard. editor of the New
ork Evening Post, -condenlning tie
3olice Department OF Washington, was
llopte0 without a dissenting voice.
he meeting, scheduled for o'clock,
vas suspended. until after 6 o'clock to
oermir the arrival of, The end Of the
ageant. This portion or the parade
vas delayed by crowds which jamIned
rennsylvania avenue, and finally was
orought past the Treasury steps only
fter the crowd had been forced back
" squadron of the United States FL
eenth Caya1ry
Hall Packed to Overlooking.
BY the time DR. lshaw had started her
sddress. the han was filled to overflow
irg and Hundreds stood. outside the
5oors. Among the notable figures on
ne platform were Mrs. Carrie Chap
nan Gait, president of the International
Suffrage Alliance, of New York; Miss
Alice Paul and Miss Lucy Burns, man
gers of the big pageant: Miss Helen
Gardner. Miss Emily Rowland. of Sher-
wood, N. Y; Miss Judith Smith, of
iSoston, the ninety-two-year-old sup
{ orter of the suffrage cause: Mary
ohnston, the novelist, and many others
Tho have been prominent in work for
IA yloO MT nd yunn1an'e Sllffr1 .
Secretary of War Stimson came in
ror q good deal of criticism for not
ccediHg to the request OF the suf-
fragfsIs for a guard of troops from
Fort Myer. 1t was declared that the
uoIice were partially ahsolved from
lame. because the Commissioners had
ndorsed las advisable" the request for
q guard of soldiers, and these appeals
rad been treated with indifference" by
nfficials of the War Department. Sew
{ raj speakers advocated appealing to
congress-. to investigate the entire
matter.
Pleased With the Parade.
The success of the pageant from the
woman's point of view then came in for
q, ,ntlusiastic encon1iums and 1T was
rged that a similar parade be made
eatare every four years tentative
plans for this were discussed.
DR.. Shaw, as president of the Ma
l ional American Woman Suffrage As
sociation. extended thanks to the wom-
en of washington for their hearty sup
port Of the pageant undertaking. She
the women on their
dignity and self-control in the face
of trying conditions" come what
may" she said, nothing shall deter
us until we cam. compel Congress to
protect us, as \ win protect the men
DR.. shaw declared that if the policing
of The streets had been in charge of
the women the lives Of the marchers
and spectators, would not have been
DR.. Shaw's address ELECTED
tremende esl4 Z enthusiasm and the as
semblage Responded with cheers, led by
IIar6ld4F. Moore. = sss=
Must become Race of Superwomen.
Miss Mary Johnston said that If there
S to be race OF supermen there must
ne a race of superwomen first Think
ers of today, she said, ''aim toward
race Quality rather than, quantity. We
have been living in unfreedom and in
the shadow of fear, but IL we do not
free the women the children never. can
be free" She declared the struggle for
equal suffrage had come TO stay. and
that II was not the work of a few fad
dists. "r
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait asked that
Congress- be requested TO demand a
report from the Commissioners con-
corning the insufficient protection af-
forded the marchers She also advo-
cated the submission of a constitutional
amendment to the States ernbodying the
principles of equal suffrage.