The Washington times., 1913-04-03
WOMEN ARE READY
TO STORM CAPITOL
Following Mass Meeting on
Monday Suffragists Will Visit
Members of Congress. !

Undaunted by the rebuffs of scoffers
at votes for women" during the
woman s pageant March 3, advocates of
women suffrage will carry out a second
parade in a real advance on the Ma
tfonal Capitol Monday morning, April 4.
The procession will be accompanied by
two military bands. Hundreds of flags
and dozens of huge banners inscribed
with ssyeman suffrage battle-cries VIII
be. displayed. Representatives. of .53l
Congressional districts will carry petit
tions to their Congressman.
Miss Alice Paul. chairman of the Con-
gressional committee of the National
american Woman Suffrage Association.
with prominent representatives of the
organization. will lead the procession.
Hundreds of women assembled at the
mass meeting in the Columbia Theater
AT 10 o'clock this morning. will take
part in the demonstration. g."
Z The party will encircIe the Capitol
: and send a delegation to the hail of
Congress. A reception committee
chosen from among the Congressmen.
win receive the delegates. A short
meeting with addresses by Congress-
men and prominent women of the cause
viii be held in the rotunda of the
Capitol. Following the withdrawal of
the suffrage host" several score of
mass meetings will be held near the
Capitol building and about the city.
With Opening of Congress.
: The demonstration. as 1t is caIled nv
tne sunragists, has been arranged to
Jake place with the opening of Congress
at the special session next Monday. 1t
also calls attention, the women declare.
Ito the end of the campaign for woman
suffrage now being waged in Michigan.
and which is expected to add one more
state to the equal suffrage column.
III the campaign is successful" suf-
trage leaders said today,T~our advance
on the Capitol will be in the nature
Of a. celebration for thes triumph"
I'VE are concentrating, our EFFORTS on
Congress now" said Miss Paul today.
The placing OF the committee here in
Washington. the direction of national
woman suffrage work in the national
capital, the holding of the recent page
ant, the presentation of our petitions
to President Wilson, and, finally, the
present undertaking, are but portions
of our great campaign. The affair will
be historic. This demonstration of
women promises to resemble nothing so
much as the great crusades." -e
Recognition of the right of women to
vote and the appointment of special
committee by Congress to consider mat
ters connected with woman suffrage
VIII be urged upon members of Con-
grese by delegates.
: Plans for the undertaking, which have
been under consideration for several
weeks, are now complete. Assurances
from women representing practically
.svery Congressional district have been
received by the committee of the Ma
itional American Woman Suffrage Asso-
eiation here and the line of march has
been arranged.
q Route of Parade.
Following a mass meeting in the Co
lumbia Theater. when speakers of
national reputation will address
the audience, the women will
march west on F street past suffrage
headquarters to Fifteenth street, thence
aown Pennsylvania. avenue 10 the Capt.
tol grounds. ~R
The women VIII march Sup steps !