The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-05-09
SUFFRAGE ARMY
STORMS CONGRESS
DEMANDING VOTE
Five Thousand Women in Pa.
rade and Pageant Cheerei
by Washington Throng.

WASHINGTON. May e.-Five thou
sand sufYragists from every state in
the Union paraded through Washing.
toms streets to-day to the Capitol,
where they besieged Congress with
petitions demanding the passage Of a
resolution for a constitutional amend
ment giving women the right TO vote.
There were 531 women In tho "peti-
ton brigade" and marching with
them were hundreds OF fower-gar-
la nded girls, a chorus 1000 strong. ten
bands. divisions OF suffrage cavalry.
girl heralds. members Of many suf-
frage organisations and a delegation
from the Pennsylvania Mems League
for Suffrage.
Throngs lined the route Of tho march
on the streets from Lafayette Park,
the starting point OF the pageant, to
the east plaza Of the Capitol, whore
the climax of the demonstration was
enacted with the singing OF the new
suffrage paean by Miss Ethel Smyth
OF England. To the accompaniment
OF the massed bands 1000 white-robed
women, wearing stoles Of green. sang
Tho March OF the Women" for
which they had been rehearsing for
weeks.
Early in tho day the ffragists be-
gan to gather about Lafayette Park,
opposite the White House. Many Of
them made no attempt to crowd into
the theatre where Mrs. William
Kent. wife OF Representative Kent of
California, presided at a mass meet
ing. at which Senator Bristow and
Representative Mondell, who fathered
the suffrage resolution In Congress,
spoke.
Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee. mounted
grand marshal Of the procession. and
her aides reached the park with Mrs
George Odell, chairman Of the foo,
marshuls. and soon after their aides
began arriving TO weld the numer-
Gus delegations into pageant line, a
huge banner carried at tho head OF
the parade was unfurled. On It was
this inscription: I'VE Demand the
Passage of the Bristow- Mondel
Resolution
| Unusual precautions had been taker
by the police to prevent a repetition oi
scenes Of disorder which marked las
years parade. Reinforcements of Of
ficers to handle the big crowds alonl
streets In the route of the parade were
at their posts early In the day.
AS The parade lined up for It's NOV,
on the Capitol the color bearers tooL
their places in the van. Immediately
behind them was the pageant oil
Spring" with It's hundreds OF girls
and young women carrying garlands Of
flowers, and the white-robed chorus
Then came the cavalry section with II.
dashing color bearers, led by Miss Elsi,
Hin Of Connecticut
Then came the divisions OF women
writer's and actresses, college women
doctors, lawyers, stenograpners. farm
lers, laundresses, saleswomen, printers
Mattresses, milliners and delegations
OF women representing every trade
and profession IN which they have
entered. Early In the day. as the
throngs of marchers began to gather
II became evident that the parade
would be the greatest suffrage
demonstration ever witnessed ir
Washington.
At the Capitol the marchers wer,
greeted by Senators Thomas, Bristow
owen, Chamberlain, Poindexter, Ster.
ling. Gallagher, Kenyon, Sutherland
Jones and Thompson, and Represen,
tatives Mondell, Falconer. Stone
Rapley, Bryan Of Washington
SABBATH. Campbell. Knowland. Kahn
Heating and Madden.