Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-02-27
MEN ARE TO MARCH
MANY TO TAKE PART IN THE
GREAT SUFFRAGE PARADE
IN WASHINGTON.
SHREvvD MOVE BY THE WOMEN
Virtually Compelled Congressman
From States Where Center Sex
Votes to Participate-Fear of In
reference by Hoodiums.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington. = Washington recog-
nizes that it was a shrewd move
which the woman suffrage leaders
made when they put the matter of
participation in the parade on March
straight up to the senators and house
members who represent states in
which women have the right to vote
Unless you are opposed to the will
OF the majority in your state" said
the women in their letter to the con-
gressmen. you will march with US
and thus prove that you, like your
states, are in the van Of progress"
So it is that congress will take an
unofficial part in the parade of the
women on the day before Mr. Wilson
takes Office. Some forty senators and
representatives, unless they weaken
at the last moment, will march with
banners" near the head of the pro-
cession, although it is possible that
some Of them will march laggard-
legged.
Other men will march with the
women and some OF them will be be-
levers and others unbelievers. in the
suffrage cause and the reasons for
their participation will be as wide
apart as the reasons for their belief
or unbelief Some Of the men have
taken seriously the stories that trou-
BILE may occur along the line of march
and that blackguards may insult the
women or attempt some physical d.
version against the peace of the pro-
cession. There is apparently no real
basis for this fear, but it holds tenac-
iously with some men and so part
of them will march by their wives,
daughters or sisters, for purposes of
protection only, while others will
march to show that their heart is for
suffrage and that man must do his
part to make perfect the parade show
ing and to give suffrage male en-
dorsement.
Some Scorn Male Escort.
Some Of the women who will march
have told their husbands and their
brothers and their sons that they can
male members of families who want
to take part, and who have been for
hidden. The women who are aYerse
to the appearance of the other sex as
defenders Of the parade. say that if
women is able to vote and to bear
her share of government, she is able
to march along Pennsylvania avenue
without hard-fsted escort.
Several army women will have a
place in the cavalry division of the
suffrage parade. These women know
how to ride and moreover they have
the service course. It is said that IL
there is any attempt to interfere with
the peace and comfort of the march
ers, these army women on their train
ed mounts will go to the front and do
some riding down" The women of
the hunt clubs will go to the front
with them. It is inconceivable that
any attempt will be made to interfere
with this parade. The un-American-
ism of interference is enough to dis
arm fear in advance, but some of the
elements in the community opposed
to suffrage have been doing their best
through the press and otherwise to
make it appear that hoodlums will
move to the attack" If anything of
the kind is done a lot of people who
hold themselves respectable will be
responsible.
Fight CT Colorado City Bill.
The supporters of conservation, IN
der federal management, the militant
preservationists,' as they are called,
are conducting a campaign either to
secure the final defeat In congress Of
a plan to turn over to the city of Colo
RADIO Springs some thousands of acres
of government land, or to try to induce
President Taft to intervene with his
veto as he did last summer in the
case Of a water river dam bill, which
was opposed by the conservationists.
When the bill giving the city of
Colorado Springs control and use of
some thousands of acres of the south
erly, easterly and northerly slopes of
Pixies Peak was up in the senate,
Senator Guggenheim of Colorado sue
SOCOCd LII l1 oil uNh OuI VI II II
or six words, which would give the
agricultural department partnership
with the city of Colorado Springs in
the control of the land. If the bill
goes through with this omission 1t will
mark a departure from precedent, for
while the government has been will
ing to turn over land useful as water
i..sr +
always has insisted that the depart
ment of agriculture should maintain
what may be called suZerainty over
the allotted tracts.
There is opposition among both
Democrats and Republicans to this
senate effort to give to the Colorado
town this land and to take it away
virtually and entirely from govern
ment control. The conservationists
are telling congressman that this bill
is but a preliminary step to the turn
ing over of other government tracts
of land to persons who know what
they want" There are many con-
gressmen, however. who have been of
some service to the conservation
movement, who say that there is a
vast difference between turning over
land to a municipality for public use
and turning it over to the predatory
interests"
Leigh Hunts Tribute to Tea.
With Leigh Hunt tea drinking seems
almost to have been the aesthetic rit-