Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-07
Witnesses Tell Stories of l0-I
dignitIes and AffrontS to the.
Marching Throng ON Day.
Before Inauguration
GUARDIANS OF LAW
SHOW NO SYMPATHY
Major Sylvester Excuses Force
on Ground That Members
Were Net Sufficient TO Cope
With Big Crowd,

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With Big Crowd,
90, Morning journal special lenscd wlrc)
Washington, March 6.--fales 81 in-
dienitles and anronts from the crowds,
and Indifference aud laughing com
mcnts from the police, were reCovntod
today before the senate committee in
Nesiigaung the alleged lack Of pro-
lection given the great sufragotte pa-
peant af last Monday. Women. nfomis
nont n national affairs and Ia suf-
fwee councils. told 81 their harrassod
progress through surging crowds Of
men and boys whom the police. they
said made little effort to hold back
Thoir stories as tn the general atu-
mdc Of the police were endorsed hy
Rear Admiral VAN Beypen. retired,
and George g. Howerman, librarian
Of the Carnegie library Of Washing
ton. who appeared as witnesses
against the police department.
Miss Julia 1nthrop chief Of the
ehildfens bureau ~ thc department of
commerce aud labor. one of the
marthers in tho suffrage parade said
the few police she saw seemed to ho
merely standing IN the front ROW oi
tho spectators Mrs. Harriet Taylor
Upton. of Warren, 8. iu charge of the
Ohio division of the parade Declared
that crowds of Noungish mon snrsed
in So close that the mareher couiN
hardly Waik two abreast thnt sooo
naured drunken men pushed asnihAl
the marchets lines without restraint
~ ihe police ANA thai the ieW onl-
c,rs in sight did nolhins to protect
Che procession Congress had pfoNiu-
IA + special ace directing the Wash
ngtou police department TO prevent
any interference with the suffrage
professions
In 4 statement furnished to the
committee AT lts opening, Major kl'h-
ara sylvester superintendent al po-
lice declared his department haa
given the parade all the protection 1t
coula with the limited number Of po-
licempn available and that the alAoi-
der ON the streets was due 20 the
breaking Of cables along the route ana
the HnrulV character of the crowd
Bursts of laughter came frequently as
women told of their experiences Mla.
t.pton said there were some elderly
women I'm the Ohio division aud she
was afraid good natufed drunken
man would fan against them
$50 we al hurried ana got past ana
hn fen bnck ian WiHconsin. on NNoln-
inc or somewhere buck there she
satd sho declared the police laughed
ai the scenes aud made no effort 90
hnlp Mrs Agnes NJ. jerks, IF Com
.ord 81 H.. who had her daughter
and other young girls with her in the
Now Hampshire division. declared un.
formed policemen had eneoufaB'p
Inc crowd IN ita disorder ana ihai she
had been 80 alarmed at the action OF
the OFFICERS toward the young Hll's
,hat the children were placed ~ inc
confer of the procession where ihcF
were protected by older women
zone policeman looked as though
n. wis going to take hold ei NE
voune girls who were marching WIN
MS She said. "We were more fright
oned bv the police than by the
crowds"
Mrs Cornelius Odenheinef of
Iessup. Md. said she had walked lhe
length of the avenue. SNORT uine
nrior 10 the starting of the parade ana
that fho crowds were then back ON
NM sidewalk Mrs. Abhie scott Baker
of washington, one of the organizer.
of the paradcf declared the street hAH
baan allowed 90 become conersltd Just
before the parade started nnd iha'
iock af advance protection hod mauf
4, inposslblc then to clear the avenue
~ was AS though we walked INTO lhe
neoi of ID funnel" said Mrs. Bnker
cone policeman to whom ! appenlea
stood with his arms folded ana 8nid
",Oh the crowd is doing Vert
we'll
Nra walter ! FISHER. wife OF the
retiring seerotnry Of the Interior ioid
ltho committee II the anIety with
ybieh sh' watched from the posiois
nca buildmg for her daughter TO ape
pear In The parade as the crowd now
and thcn suraad across ihe avenue.
breatine ana blocking the progress oi
tha paaennf Miss Elizabeth lifoWns
"a local teaeher testified - the '"oaire
bpffeoncry 20 which tho teachofs
lbriaade was subjected The crowd
nre4altte aaalnai Us would repfat the
aiphabet count 70 tom and sing rats
rats rats. as they marked tune she