Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-13
NOW A SUFFRAG|ST.
Miss Genevieve Clark to Ride
in Capital Pageant.
MOTHER ALSO INTERESTED
Wife of Speaker Will Help in Plans
for Parade-Big Illinois
Delegation Coming.

| Miss Genevieve Clark daughter Of
| Speaker Clark, is to ride on the Missouri
| float in the woman's suffrage procession
| March 3. according to announcement
made at suffrage headquarters today.
great deal of interest is being taken by
MissourianS in the coming womans suf-
| frage demonstration and they are max
| ing many preparations for the part whici,
Missouri is to have in the parade. Mrs.
Martha c.. Ewing of st. Louis is in charge
| of this work.
| Mrs. Champ Clark and Mrs. Ewing will
| be at home at Mrs. Clark residence one
afternoon every week to discuss with Mis-
| sourians the plans for the parade. Suf-
| frage headquarters today were notified
by Mrs. Clara B. Welles of Chicago that
J the Illinois delegation for the parade
would be so large that special headquar-
| ters We're desired.
| Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout of Chicago,
president of the Illinois State Suffrage
Association will be here 20 lead the
| delegation.
Golden Chariots to Be Used.
| Mrs. Donald Hooker of Baltimore has
notified the headquarters that six gold
en- chariots which Baltimore will lend
for the parade to be sent to Wash
| ington Immediately. They are two-horse
| chariOtS.
| Mrs Woodward Clark of Australia
| who has taken a prominent part in the
| public life of that country for num-
! Der of years. will have a place on the
Australian float.
Mrs Patricia Street of Australia to-
day went to New York to consult with
| Miss Inez Millholland in regard to the
costumes which are to be worn by the
! heralds.
Challenge Hefin to Debate.
A challenge to debate the suffrage ques-
| ton has been sent by the woman suf-
fragists to Representative Thomas Hefin
of Alabama, who criticised them severely
at recent meeting in Falls Church. Va.
| 1t is said to be likely that Miss Inez Mil
holland of New York, one of the suf-
frage leaders. and regarded as one of the
most beautiful women in the country, will
be put up by the suffragists Mr..
Hef1in's opponent in the debate.
The challenge is the result of a meeting
of suffragists held last night in the Dis
trict National Bank building. At the
meeting the speakers included Mrs. Owen
Kildare, Mrs. Louis Gutenberg and Mrs.
| j. Ohio Stevenson, wife Of DIR. Steven
son.
Former Mayor George W. Hawxhurst
of Falls Church attended the meeting to
| assure the wome nthat the people of Falls
| resentative Helms remarks on suffrage.
| He was invited to Falls Church to talk
Ion religion. Mr.. Hawxhurst said. but di-
tgressed from his subject to attack the
suffrage procession.
"All that Mr. Hefln said about suf-
| fragists has not been printed said the
| former mayor He charged that 30 per
cent of the suffragists are divorced %
Per cent are trying to get divorces and
tile other % per cent are living unhappily
With their husbands. The people who
heard him know he was not telling the
truth.
Mr.. Heflin seems to feel so sure of
himself that | think the proper thing for
the suffragists to do is to challenge him
to a joint debate on the question OF
woman suffrage" said Mrs. Stevenson.
IF he has got the courage of his con
victions let him get on the public plat
form in Washington. He precipitated
this issue down in Virginia, where he
thought nobody would hear of his speech.
Let him choose his judges and his audi
ence.'
Word was received from Cincinnati,
Ohio, today that Miss Anna Hall. a
prominent Cincinnati suffragist, will
march in chains in the suffrage parade.
The announcement was made at
meeting of the Susan B. Anthony Club
of Cincinnati, which will march in the
parade with the Twentieth Century Club
of New York.
Miss Hall said: Il shall represent a
chain. because that is the way Ohio
women are shackled by the inadequacy
of Ohio laws, which do not permit wom
en- to vote.
Plans to Meet Marchers
On the day that Gen" Kosalie Jones
and her suffragist army arrives with
in a few miles of Washington on their
long ''hike' from New York, March ].
they will be met by several hundred suf-
fragists from here. headed by a brass
band. Plans for the escort to Washington
were outlined at suffrage headquarters
today.
The suffragists who will 20 out to meet
the marchers will be women who have
been active in the work here In addition
there will be large body of cavalry
women. and the brass band is to be COM
posed of woman musicians exclusively.
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