Evening journal., 1913-03-04
WASHINGTON
MOB FIGHTS
SUFFRACISfS
Marching Women Are Pro-
teCted by Cavalry After
DiStuTberS Defy
Police
WOMEN ARE JEERED;
POLICE ONLY LAUGH

WASHINGTON. March Alive
thousand woman, marching in the
woman suffrage pageant yesterday,
practically fought their way foot by
foot, up Pennsylvania avenue through
surging mob that completely dehed
the Washington police, swamped 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 United States cavalry from
Fort Myer were rushed into Wash
ington to take charge of Pennsyl-
vania avenue.
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 we're roIndly denounced
Cor their inactivity, and resolutions
were passed calling upon President
elect Wilson and the incoming Con-
gress to make an investigation.
SAY Police Laughed at Them.
This statement was issued from
Woman Suffrage Headquarters last
might:
while police by the score stood by
and laughed, hoodlums, drunken mer
and toughs this afternoon did all but
break up the great suffrage procession
in which more than 10000 women par.
ticipated.
"Only the timely arrival OF a squad
OF the Fifteenth United States Cavalry
who rode to the rescue on the gallop
the manliness OF several score United
States soldiers and marines recruited
from the streets and a band of Boy
Scouts kept the great suffragist army
from being routed.
Participating in the procession
we're more than a score of United
States Senators and Representatives
who tonight promised q thorough in
vestigation of the disgraceful affair
The marchers in the procession liter
ally had to push their way through
huge crowds which the police made
only weak attempts to push back
"The indignation Of the women wal
expressed after the procession during
a giant mass meeting at Memorla
Continental Hall, at which resolu
tions calling for a Congressional In
vestigation and asking President VII
son 10 look into the disgraceful anai
We're unanimously passed amid re
sounding cheers.
"Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Presiden
oi the National American Woma
Suffrage Association, stirred the gian
mass meeting, In which several thou
sand men and women were gathered
20 bursts OF applause when she eN
pressed her shame and indignation
over the way women had been treat
ed in the national capital.
"The procession did not get NOR
than a block before il was stopped
The crowds gathered around Mrs
Burleson and her aides. Seyera
drunken men attempted to climb upo
floats. Insults and gibes we're shout
ed at the women. For more than a.
hour confusion reigned, while a larg
squad of mounted and foot police di
practically nothing. Finally, abou
forty soldiers. and marines from th
streets indignant, formed a volun
tary escort .of honor and started I
clear a way.
MRS. Genevieve stone. wife of Rer
resentative Stone of Illinois, who wa
marching with the Illinois continger
was one of many women who said pc
lioemen had insulted her She dc
clared that one policeman had shout
ed to her, III my wife was where 70
arc / would break her head -.
Many Women in Tears.
Helen Keller, the noted deaf an
blind girl, was so exhausted and III
nerved by her experience In attemp
ing to reach a grand stand where 81
was 10 have been a guest of homo
that she was unable to speak later
Continental Hall.
The marchers had to fight their WI
from the start and took more than ol
hour in making the first ten block
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