The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-03
PLANS Laid FOR
CAPITOL ATTACK
Women Plot to Swoop Down
on Statesmen the Day
Congress Convenes.
BRASS BANDS WILL AID
Theater and Open-air Meetings Will
Be Held to Encourage
Followers.
BRASS BANDS WILL AID

near the day when Congress convenes.
and also the day the suffragists plan to
swoop down like wolves on the fold in
the name of the cause"
Five hundred women, with two brass
bands, one woman from each Congress
sional district. plan to take the Capitol
by storm that day. They will gather
first at a mass meeting in Columbia The
alter. listen to speeches by Mrs. Harriet
Burton Laidlaw Miss Janet Richards.
and Mrs. Forbes Robertson Hale. melting
them to stern duty. and then VIII march
on Congress.
Plans Not Announced.
Just what they will do after reaching
the haunt of the nations lawmakers they
have not yet announced But it proba-
bly, will be sufficient. Incidental to the
Congressional assault il is planned to
encircle the Capitol with dozen or
more open-air meetings.
The women will demand an amendment
to the Constitution enfranchising the
women of the country. How they will
impress this demand forcibly upon the
Senators and Representatives must be
left to the imagination of the solons
until the hour of fate arrives Many
women in the invading force are wives
and daughters of members Of Congress.
1t is rumored that members of the House
are being csnvassed for men to serve on
the reception committee.
The following are the names Of some
OF the women who will take part in the
engagement OF April Z:
Alabama-Miss Elizabeth Shelley. Mrs.
Elizabeth NJ. Candee, Mrs. Lee Crandali.
sr.; Miss Grace Frances.
Arkansas Mrs. Chase, Mrs Lewis
Merrimam.
California-Mrs II. Lansing Perrine.
Mrs. Jessie l.. Morrow, Mrs l.. b.
Allen, Mrs. William Kent, Mrs. William
D. Stephens, Mrs. E. G. Kalbfus
Colorado-Mrs. Pitzer, Mrs. Edward
Heating.
Connecticut - Miss Elsie Hill. Miss
Mary P. Morgan, Mrs Patricia Street.
Mrs. Frank Hiram Smell.
Delaware-Mrs. Martha S. Cranston.
F1orida-Mrs ". M. Stoner. Mrs.
Thurston, Mrs. George Brooks.
Georgia-Mrs. Ingram, Miss Jessie Bell.
Mrs. r. L. c. Moncure, Miss Amanda
Walker.
Idaho-Mrs c. II. Hasbrouck.
Illinois-Mrs. Genevieve Stone, Mrs.
ellison Gardner. Miss Clark. Miss Helen
sard Hughes. Mrs. A. f. Johnson. Mrs.
Clara B. Taylor. Miss Margaret Fisher,
Miss G.. Needham. Mrs. George Odell.
Indiana-Mrs. J. Ohio Stevenson, Miss
Ella I. Barton, Miss Brook Bright. Mrs
w. A. Cullop.
Iowa-Mrs. Herbert Brown. Miss Flora
Wilson, Miss Evangeiine Prouty, Miss
NJ w. Durham, Miss Frances Prouty.
Kansas-Mrs Nina f. Allender, Mrs
Yoder Miss Yoder.
Kentucky-Mrs. Kitchin. Mrs. D. E.
Smith. Mrs Virginia MacBride.
Maine-Mrs. A. S. Perrin, Misses Per-
rim, Mrs. Eta Haley Osgood, Miss Alice
Holmes.
Maryland-Mrs William N. Ellicott
Mrs. John s. Gibbs, Mrs. Charles E.
Ellicott. Mrs. Clara White, Mrs. Donald
r. Hooker, Mrs. Mary Miller Stabler.
Observation-Disclosures. w. s. Moore. Mrs.
Mary Ware bennett, Mrs. r. X. Forrest,
Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor. Mrs. David Fair
child, Mrs. Henry D. HOWE, Mrs. E. w.
Roberts, Mrs. Mary Emerson Jackson.
Michigan-Miss Karpline Klager, Miss
Abbie r. Knapp, Miss Edith r. Mosier,
Mrs. arian Thatcher. Mrs. John Earle.
Mrs. Caleb Miller, Miss Emma Nklager,
Miss Nellie Brown, Mrs. Florence Chase,
Miss Harriet L. Parney, Mrs. James Lee
Roy, Miss Jane f. Cook, DR.. Clara S.
MacNaughton, Miss Florence Hedges.
Minnesota-Mrs. Catherine c. Carroll.
Miss Della Jackson.
Mississippi-Miss Belle kearney, Mrs.
H L. Thompson. Mrs. Claude Miller.
Mrs. Rose Mckee Shelton, Mrs. Dan
Searles, Mrs. Charlton Clark, Misses
Hertfel, Miss G. V. Chandler. Miss Lusk,
Mrs. NJ F. Wickliffe, Mrs. NJ. B. Ket-
tering, Mrs. f. F. Burchard, Miss Lille
Ross, Mrs. Julia w. Leavitt. -
Montana-Mrs. Gaines, Mrs. o. NJ.
LANCE
Nebraska-Miss Joy Webster. Mrs.
Neigh.
Nevada-Miss Hazel Roberts
New Hampshire-Mrs. Austin kautz,
Miss Eunice Oberly.
New Jersey-Miss Estelle Wheeler,
Miss Alice Paul, Mrs. Albert Norton
Wood.
New York-Miss Troborn, Mrs. Mary
Beard, Miss Jane A. Delano. Miss Frances
Davenport, Irving Moller. Mrs. Frances
Gould.