The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-03-12
mean HOWLLNC MOB
INSULT WOMEN MARCHING WOMEN
In CAPITOL CITY
lNSULTED WOMEN Weep

Line Of March Blocked by Settling
Multitude Who Offer Many Indig-
mites, Hostile Demonstrations t1e-
quently Bordering on Riot, Until
United States Soldiers Forced Pas
sage for Paraders.
Five thousand women, marching
in the woman suffrage 9ageaa Mon
day, practically fought Their Way foot
by foot up Pennsylvania avenue,
surging mob that completely defed
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 cavalry from Fort Meyer
were rushed into Washington to take
charge Of Pennsylvania avenue. No
Inauguration has produced such
scenes, which, in many instances,
amounted to nothing less than riots.
Later, in Continental Hall, the wo-
men turned what was to have been a
suffrage demonstration into an in
dignation meeting, in which the
Washington police were roundly de-
nounced for their inactivity and res
olutions were passed calling upon
President-elect Wilson and the in
coming Congress to make an investi-
cation and locate the responsibility
for the indignities the marchers suf-
fered.
The scenes which attended the en-
try of "Gen." Rosalie Jones and her
"hikers" on Thursday, when the be-
draggled women had to fight their
way up Pennsylvania avenue, swamp
ed by mob, were repeated Monday,
but upon vastly larger scale. The
marchers had to fight their way from
the start and took more than an hour
in making the first ten blocks. Many
of the women were in tears under the
jeers and insults that lined the route.
Although stout wire ropes had
been stretched up and down the
length Of Pennsylvania avenue from
the Peace monument to the Mall, be-
hind the White House, the enormous
crowds that gathered early to obtain
points of vantage overstepped them
or crawled beneath. Apparently nc
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 hun
dred yards a solid wall Of humanity.
On the whole it was a hostile
crowd through which the women
marched. Miss Inez Milholland, her
aid Of the procession, distinguished
herself by aiding in riding down a
mob that blocked the way and threat
ened to disrupt the parade. Another
woman member of the "petticoat cav
airy" struck a hoodlum stingi1g
blow across the face with her riding
crop in reply to scurrilsus remark
as she was passing. The mounted
police seemed powerless to stem the
tide of humanity.
A group of hoodlums gathered in
front Of the reviewing stand in which
sat Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen Taft
and a half dozen invited guests from
the White House. They kept up a
running fire of causting comments.
Apparently no effort was made to re-
move them and, evidently disgusted,
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 broad stairway of
the Government treasury house, were
begun when the parade started from
it's rendezvous ct the base Of the Cap
itol. Beautiful in coloring and group
ing, the dramatic symbolication of
women's aspirations for political free
dom was completed long before the
head of the parade was in sight.
In their thin dresses and bare
arms the players stood sh'vering for
more than an hour and finally they
were forced to seek refuge within
the building. Around The treasury
department the crowds were massed
so tightly that repeated charges by
the police were seemingly ineffective.
1t was as though the blue coats
charged a stone wall. Occasionally
the mob gave way in one place only
to break over and under the wire
hedge at some other.
When the cavalry suddenly appear
ed there was wild outburst Of ap-
plause in the reviewing stand. The
men in brown virtually brushed aside
the mounted and foot police and
took charged In two lines the troop
charged the crowds Evidently real
izing they would be ridden down the
mob fought their way back. When
they hesitated, the cavalrymen, un-
der the orders of their officers, did
not hesitate. Their horses were driv-
en- into the throngs and whirled and
wheeled until hooting men and wo-
men were forced to retreat. A spa ce
was quickly cleared.
The parade in itself, in spite OF
the delays, was great success. Pass
ing through two walls of antagonistlc
humanity the marchers for the most
part kept their temper. They suf-
fered insult and closed their ears to
jibes and jeers. Few faltered, al
though several Of the older women
we're forced to drop out from time
to time. Miss Helen Keller, the not
ed deaf and blind girl, was so ex-
hausted and unnerved by the exper-