The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-22
'SUFFRAGISTS PLAN
PARADE OF $4,000
Will Take Place Oct. 90 and
Is Expected to Be Biggest
of It's Kind.
ALL TO CARRY PENNANTS

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great suffrage parade. once moro before
the women of the State win the yo,o-o,
fail to win ton November .. Fif'4 ava.
nue. will be enlivened with bauuors and
transparencies. once more II vii ,.,o
to the trampIng feet of thousands o,
women who are demanding equal rights
at the polls with men.
Mrs. Norman DE X. Whitehousc IL N.
general behind the undertaking, ard Sat.
urday afternoon, October 30. Just ten
days before the suffrage amendment 20,
to the voters. is the date. The Nv.
yellow rallies which the Empire state
campaign committed has announced 10
take place In September are merely 10
whet the appetite of the public for more
suffrage marches and to harden the soles
and enthuse the souls of the suNra-
gists for the big walk.
The letter B is the sign and symbol
OF his parade. II Is to be the biggest,
the Best. the M parade Of all In
the history of the fight for woman SUI.
frage. The word banner Is used In a
double sense, for not only is II to be the
finest ever, II is to blossom with pen.
nants and flags. Every one Of tho
2b. 200 women h are expected to be in
line will carry a pennant, making the
suffrage slogan fiutter from end 10 end.
Above this river of color-yellow for
the Woman Suffrage party, pale blue and
white and yellow for the Empire state
campaign committee, purple, white and
green for the Woman's Political Union
will appear the larger banners and the
huge transparencies.
All the local suffrage organizations
are joining with the Empire state cam.
paign committee, which will direct the
demonstration. and their representa-
tives make up the parade committee.
Personnel OF Committee.
Here Is the personnel OF the com
mittee as far as formed. under Nina
Norman DE II. Warehouses; chairman
ship:
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. prcslden,
Of the international Woman Suffrage
Alliance and head of the Emp re state
campaign committee Mrs, Raymond
Brown. president OF the New York
State Woman Suffrage Association;
Miss Mary Garrett May, city chairman
Woman Suffrage party Mrs. james
Lees Laidlaw. Manhattan borough chair.
man of the party Mrs. II. Edward
Dreier, Brooklyn borough chairman OF
the party Mrs. william Wilcox, Rich.
mond borough chairman OF the party
Mrs. Henrietta Speke-Suley, Bronx
borough chairman OF TIE party MTei
Alfred J. Emo. Queens borough chair
man OF the party Mrs. Howard Mans
field. president of the Equal Franchise
Society Mrs. Charles l.. Tiffany, pres.
dent of the Collegiate Equal S.urag-
League James Lees Laidlaw, president
Of the Mems League for Woman SUI
frage Mrs. Harriet Stautuu Blat
president of the Woma9 20 zeal
MO Mrs, o. II. L. Belmont pres
dent of the Political Equality AS-o,.a.
ton. and the following members Of t.t
publicity council Of the Empire ST..
campaign committee: Mrs. John W
Alexander, Miss Alic" Morgan WrCa'
and Miss Elluor Byrus.
Miss Byrns is chairman Of o." sub
committee on me and trl'-'.r.
encies. Miss Wright of that on or..p
tional groups. Mrs. Alexander of tie O..
on decoration, and Mrs, MausN,.. %
that on music.
Great stress Is to be aid in he parSdt
on the interrationalism NJ 'Hr "
for the franchise, The first banner n
line will he the huge one of the lA'er-
national Woman Suffrage Alliance. o.a
ing the inscription Woman Suffrage l. .
World Movement" and directly IN fror'
Of Il will march Mrs. Gait, the INTERIM.
tional president. Other banners Will pot
out that the sun never sets IN the tgh'
for woman suffrage" and that women
have full suffrage now in elevcn Amer a'
commonwealth and in six foreign coun-
tries. This section vii INCLUDE "a proxy
procession Of the twou'y-s'N nations
represented In the alliance. but no ma
tlOnal colors will be carried eNcep; Tho
America and Uncle sam Will lead. Ta-
women are 10 wear pure white.
East side Il See Parade.
After the proxy procession" WY
march Dr. Anna Howard shaw, lead =
the executive board OF the Nat.onA,
American Woman suffrage Ass"g.a.
The Empire state campaign ma
will follow. with delegations from ~.
other campaign States, Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania. New Jersey IS ex'
pected to shine as a suffrage state. s''"
The question goes to the voters tA''s
October Is.
Next IN Inc will Ne Mrs R1Hno''
Brown, leading the state association and
then Miss Hay. At the head 90 ne
Woman Suffrage party WhI,h .rr
ton is counted on TO furnish the rgmeri-
cal strength Of the parair. tn" women
Will march 10y Assembly districts. .r
they are organized
The Womau's Political Uriou Is . =
TO give the East side, which has new
seen a big day parade for suHrlge a
treat In the way Of a procession 'r
Itself alone. The ". 4. L sect.". 81
gather on Avenue A., ~ some port no
yet decided, and march down that avr'l'
or some other East SID tlurolCa' %
before joining the MAJ" parade
one OF the features ot tie Inc " .
he the standards OF the wpmou's CT .-
thai have iudorsrd woman s3"r 90
They viii rarr. an tho wv fv me