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K|KERS SNUbBEO
IN WASHINGTON
National Suffrage Committee
HumbleS Them.
BIG ROW IS COMING
PILGRIMS Will Be Permitted to Deliver
Message to Wilson and March In
parade,

PILGRIMS Will Be Permitted to Deliver
Message to Wilson and March In
Parade.
Washington, March L. - General
Rosalie Jones walking suffragists and
suffragees are quite here, if any one
should ask.
Unless you have taste for tragedy
little more remains to be said. They
met even greater punishment than the
foot sore, bedraggled pilgrims who
tried to carry pious messages to otner
lands in the days of pride and pa
geantry and foolishly endeaVored TO
march to triumph with humility.
They we're snubbed and humbled IN
the dust and pillaged of their laurels
at the city's gates, nudged through
side streets to their journeys end anu
nut on exhibition before a mob whlch
chose to regard them as a sort OF
chaser in the moments great Vaude'
| vile.
The members of the National Wo-
mans Suffrage Committee, which
| snubbed and Inundated the army IN
half a dozen ways as it approached
the city line, later tried shame1aceay
to assauge the injured feelings OF the
marchers, without success.
A conference called hurriedly Dy
Miss Alice Paul, head of the commit
tee. decided to permit the pilgrims to
call on President Wilson and deliver
their much-talked-of message IN per-
son. This was reversal OF the oroer
sent to "Generap' Jones as she neared
Washington.
The committee also right-about'
faced on the order which it issued lot
bidding DR.. Ernest Stevens and the
| other marching suffragettes from ap'
bearing in Mondays suffrage pageant
with the women pilgrims. A squad OIL
the famous suffrage cavalry was also
gotten out and trotted past the hotel
before which the pilgrims held meet
ing after their arrival. But the nature
of the general reception wasn't much
pleasanter than the temper OF the
! crowd through which the weary anu
|
their 250-mile hike.
The police, like the Washington SUI
fragists, were unprepared for the big
crowd that assembled as the line NOV
ed up Pennsylvania avenue, and seven
women tainted in the crowd before
enough policemen arrived in response
to a hurry call to preserve order.
| d0cn.
ment which "GeneraP Jones carried
from New York and which, it is said,
the suffragists have devised in an en-,
deavor to commit the new president
one way or another on the question OF
suffrage, is now in the hands of Miss
Alice Paul.
Miss Jones said that it may stay
there. When asked it she would ac'
cept the late truce of the suffraglsts
and carry the letter to the president
elect, she said merely that her pill,
grimage was ended and that the
"army" had been officially mustered
out.
This suggests a coming row, since
the delivery of the letter was the one
motive that kept the mixers on their
feet half of the time. The text OF the
letter will not be known until after
President Wilson has received it.
General Jones led her forces up
PENNSYLVANIA avenue, behind big es.
cort of mounted policemen. All those
in the line stiffened their strides to
make the final entry an effective one.
Mrs. Boldt, Mrs. Baird and Miss Berg
mark, the three prettient pilgrims, got
most of the applause, as they swung
along bravely without looking to right
or left. Colonel" Ida Craft and Mrs.
Georgianna Lehman, the sixty-fve'
year-old pilgrim, came lottery in the
rear and went by in silence.
A noisy crowd of fully 10000 was
abiut the national suffrage headquar-
tiers when the pilgrims reached their
journeys end. 1t wasn't friendly
crowd by any means, but it accepted
the incoming marchers as one of the
free spectacles that every one is com,
ing to Washington to see.
General" Jones made a short
speech to the crowd and Captain
Elizabeth Freeman made another, but
their old enthusiasm seemed gone.