St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-03-15

Police Are Unable to Protect
Them From Insult and
Some are Handled
Pretty Roughly.

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ing mob that completely sdefied the
Washington police, swamped the
marchers and broke their procession
into little companies The women.
trudging stoutly along under great
difficulties, were able to complete
their march only when troops Of cav
airy from Fort Meyer were rushed
into Washington to take charge of
pennsylvania Avenue. Noainaugura-
ton has produced such scenes, which
In many instances amounted to moth
ing less than riots.
Later, in Continental Hall, the wo-
men turned what was to have been
suffrage demonstration into an IN
dlgnatton meetingS in which the
Washington police were roundly ce.
nounced for inactivity. and resolu-
lions were passed calling upon Presi-
dent-elect Wilson and the incoming
Congress to make an investigation
and locate the responsibility for the
indignities the marchers suffered.
Miss Keller Unnerved.
Miss Helen Keller, the noted deaf
and blind girl, was so exhausted and
unnerved by the experience IN at
tempting to reach grand stand
where she was to have been a guest
OF honor that she was unable to speak
later at Continental Hall.
The scenes which attended the en-
try OF General Rosalie Jones and
her mixers" on Thursday, when the.
bedraggled women had to fight their
way up Pennsylvania Avenue. swamp
ed by mob, with which a few police
men struggled In vain, were repeat
ed today, but upon vastly larger scale
The marchers had to fight their way
from the start and took more than
one hour In making the first ten
blocks. Many of the women were 10
tears under the jeers and insults
that lined the route.
| Stout wire ropes had been stretched
up and down the length OF Pennsyl-
vania Avenue from the Peace Monu.
ment to the mall behind the White
House. I'd
Ropes are. Torn Down.
The enormous crowds that gather
ed early to obtain points Of vantage
soVerstepped them or crawled beneath.
Apparently no effort was made to-
drive back the trespassers in the
early hours, with the result that when
the parade started it faced at almost
every hundred yards solid wal. Of
humanity i ss
on the whole 1t was hostile
crowd through which the women
marched Miss Inex Milholland, her
aid OF the processoni, distinguished
herself by aiding in riding down a
mob that blocked the Way4and threat
ened to disrupt the parade. Another
woman member Of the ..petticoat cav.
airy struck hoodlum singing
blow across the face with her riding
croDSin reply to e. scurrilous remark
rs she was passing. The mounted
police rode hither and yon, hut seem
ed powerless to stem the tide OF hui
manity.
Mrs. Taft Insulted.
A group OF hoodlums gathered iii
front of the reviewing-s tani in which
sat Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen and a |
half dozen invited guests from Inc
White House. They kept up a run
ming fire of causfic comment .Al-
parently no effort was made to re-
move them. and evidently disguised
the White House party left before
the procession had passed in Its halt |
ing and interrupted journey toward |
Continental Hall.
The tableaux on the steps OF the |
Treasury building. framed In the |
great columns and the broad STAIR
way of the government treasury
house, were begun when the parade |
started from It's rendezvous ut the
base OF the Capitol. Beautiful In
and grouping, the dramatic I
sym bolization OF women's aspirations
Tor political freedom was completed
long before the head Of the parade
was in sight.
Shiyer in hare Arms.
In their thin dresses and bare arms
hey stood shivering for msrre than
IN hour, and finally they were forced
o seek refuge within thu building.
Around the Treasury Department i
he crowds were massed SO tightly
hat repeated charges By the poles
we're seemingly Ineffective. It va
Is though the bluecoats charged
stone wall. Occasionally the mob
rave way in one, place, only to break Il
,ver and under the wire hedge At 4.
Ome other. II
When the cavalry suddenly appear-
ID there was q wild ontburss Of ap. Fl
,lause in the reviewing Stand. The Ii
men in brown virtually brushed aside1
he mounted and foot police and took
barge. In8two lines the troops push /
d the crowds.
Cavalry Routs Mob.
Evidently realizing thai they would
esridden down, the mobs fought Their
ray back. When they hnsitated. the
ayalry, under the orders OF their !