Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-12
SAYS IT SHOWS ANIMOSITY
Champion Is Found, However, in
Edward Lowe Temple.
TO POLICE HEARING
Conditions Prevailing During suf-
frage Parade March 3 Subject
for Much Discussion.

The following communications have
been received by The Star in regard to
previously published letters or statements
by witnesses during the Investigation of
the District of Columbia police depart
ment in handling the crowds during the
suffi age parade, March ):
Miss Inez A. Applebee, the Plaza,
writes:
1.-THE letter of Mary L. Norris. pub
iished in Mondays Star, far from pre-
under discussion, seems 10 resolve itself
into an expression of personal animus
toward the suffrage cause.
''The pertinent question. it seems to
me, is not whether it is fitting or adj
mirable for women to march in a pa
rade, but whether any orderly body, Of
citizens, having previously obtained from
the proper authorities not only the per-
mission to parade, but also the promise
of police protection, is not entitled to re-
ceive the latter or demand the reason
why.
1.-The suffragists at no time insisted or
reiterated that police protection was
unnecessary. They do not now 'whimper
and whine because the consideration
supposedly due their sex was conspicuous
by it's absence Is it yellow streak
to demand redress for the treatment
they received, not as women, but as
citizens? And it is significant that fore
most in demanding (and in securing) an
investigation are the men who were in
the parade, and who apparently, re-
.ceived equally outrageous treatment.
Besides containing much misinforma-
ton, the letter displays the grossest ig-
norance of the true aims and attributes
of the suffragists. 1t would seem de-
sirable for the writer to seek enlighten-
ment along various lines"
Praises Mary L. Norris.
Edward Lowe Temple writes:
"All honor to Mary L. Norris, who
alone in any city journal that 1 have
seen has dared, in the face of SO much
popular clamor of her own sex, to speak
words of truth and soberness regarding
the conduct of that sex during and since
the recent suffragette parade.
'As to the parade, while none who saw
it will deny that its details were carried
out in thoroughly orderly, dignified and
impressive fashion by the suffragists
themselves, the fact remains that it was
their own voluntary act, and, being their
own act, why is it harsh to ask them to
take the consequences incident thereto, as
the sterner sex, whom they wish to re-
semble and rival, do, without unneces-
sary and undignified complaint?
Without anticipating the result of the
Senate inve stigatiOn, no one who knows
Maj. Sylvester will wantonly charge him
personally with Intentional discourtesy
to women. or with the lack of skilled eff
ficiency which has caused him repeated
ly to be chosen as chief of the Police
Superintendents' Association of the en-
tire country. He strongly advised the
suffragettes to choose another route and
another day for their parade, on account
of the congested conditions that surround
ed the inaugural season. and he has
never, as l understand, expressed any but
kindly feelings for the women concerned.
Being southerner, it would be strange
If he had. But they chose to fly in the
face of we1-seasoned warnings, and must,
of course. where they sowed the wind,
reap the whirlWind. 1t should also be
borne in mind that the insults endured
were not necessarily all inflicted by
w ashington residents.
with profound reverence for woman,
whe Their with the ballot or without it, l
am firmly persuaded that only when she
combines something of mans judgment
with her own charm will she have proved
her case and thoroughly fulfilled her mis-
sion.''
Deplores Clergyman Was Jeered.