The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-03-12

be for some time in the future.
Washington News Exchange Letter
| Washington, D. c., March 6-Since
the middle of last week the business
streets and many private residences
have been profusely decorated with
flags and bunting, and as there has
been no rain, all the decorations are
resplendent in their freshness and
beauty. The crowds began to arrive
Friday and all day Saturday, Sunday
and Monday kept pouring into the
city. Thousands and thousands of
state troops and members of civic or
CARNATIONS, as well as countless num-
bers of private citizens taxed the ia
cilities even of the immense new
Union station. 1t is estimated that
fully 100000 strangers were in the
city.
Never before has Washington ever
seen such parade as that of March
Sd when, with the tri-color of equal
suffrage waving under smiling skies,
valian army of American women, in
a brilliant pageant of color and tab
leauX, ingeniously presented their
plea for suffrage. 1t was a day of
| tremendous significance to them and
they achieved their purpose in put
ting their cause so closely before the
government.
The day was married by the inef
ficiency and neglect of the police and
the chief of police is denounced in no
mild terms. The crowd literally
mobbed the marchers, and the police
in many instances stood idly by while
rowdies mauled and insulted the wom-
en-. Congressman Hobson in the
house bitterly denounced the Wash
ington police, and in the senate res
olution introduced by Mr.. Knute Mel
son, calling for immediate investiga-
ton of the matter, was adopted DR..
Anna Shaw, well known worker for
woman's suffrage, declared that she
was never so ashamed of the national
capital; but that the conduct OF the
women in the parade proved beyond
doubt that they have self-control,
dignity and the power to remain calm
under insult.
On the other hand the orderliness
of the inaugural parade on Tuesday
was model. From early in the morn
ing the police kept the entire line of
march open, allowing no one to go
upon it or cross it without permit
or for most urgent reason. Promptly
at 10 o'clock President Taft and Mr..
Wilson left the white house and rode
together to the capitol. A few min
yates after - Thomas R. Marshall
was sworn in as vice-president and
the new senate was organized by the
| induction into Office of thirty-two
members, seventeen of whom are be-
ginning their first term. An hour
later the 2Sth president, Woodrow
Wilson, assumed the duties of his
| high Office The oath was admins
tered to him on the east portico of
the capitol by the venerable chief
justice of the United States, in the
presence of vast multitude. Immed-
lately after his inaugural address, &C.
companied by Mr.. Taft, he lead the
largest and most magnificent parade
ever seen here, and after luncheon at
the white house, reviewed the parade
from special stand FIN front of his
new home Mr.. Taft after luncheon
started for Augusta, Ca, where he
will visit for time before beginning
his duties at Yale University.
Owing to it's length it was long af-
ter dark when the last of the parade
passed before the president. A bril-
liant display of fireworks on the ell
lipse south of the white house closed
the day and the ceremonies of the
change of administration.
The general theme of Mr.. Wilson's
inaugural address was eve shall re-
store, not destroy" He declared the
day to be not one of triumph, but of
dedication, and called upon all the
forces of humanity for the upbuild
ing of sound society for safeguard
ing Individual and property rights,
that all may enjoy life, liberty and |
happiness with equality and justice
under the law.