Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-20

dent Of the Illinois Equal Suffrage as
sociation and general chairman of the
parade, that representatives will be in
the line of march from the following
states: California, Delaware, Florida,
| Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine,
Mississippi, Michigan, Minnesota. Mon
tana. New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Vermont. Wisconsin, New Jersey and
Maryland.
Mrs. George Bass of the hospitality
committee has arranged to care for TO-
600 marchers from other states in spite
Of the fact that all the Chicago hotel
managers have had reservations
booked for months to accommodate the
delegates to the republican and pro-
gressive national conventions As gem
eral chairman of the local board at the
time of the biennial convention Of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs,
Mrs. Bass made her reputation as an
able and charming hostess and there
is reason to believe she will handle
this situation with great credit to her
self and perfect comfort to Chicago's
suffrage guests.
At the head of the first section of the
parade Will marcn MRS. NarIIe Nuap-
man Gait. president of the National
American Woman's Suffrage associa-
ton with all the members of the ma
tional board. Visiting delegations will
follow, bearing their own state en-
blems and led by the board of the ILL
nols Equal Suffrage association.
Under the Illinois state banner more
than $50 groups will march. Special
trains will come from all sections of
the state bearing women who are anx-
lous to demonstrate their interest in
the cause OF enfranchising women.
The close knit bond between the suf-
lrage groups which are affiliated with
the Illinois Equal Suffrage association
will be splendidly illustrated by this
enthusiastic response.
| Some of the large organizations in
Chicago with over two thousand mem
! bers will parade in distinctive cos
tunes. Among these are the Chicago
! Political Equality league, the Chicago
! Equal Suffrage association, the Wom-
ans City club, the Chicago Woman S
club, the Church Federation, the W. C.
! T. l. and the Federation of Women's
| Clubs However, the striking feature
, OF this suffrage parade will be the ward
: section in which every one of the
50 wards of Chicago will have its WON
en- voters under the banner of the pre-
cinct and ward in which they live.
These ward groups will be made I'D of
women of different races, different re-
/ ligions, different political party affilia-
tons, but as one in the desire for full
! suffrage for all women In this parade
every woman will have an opportunity
to express the solidarity of women bv
marching on June T.
| The parade will start at 4 O'Clock
from the assembling ground in Grant
park, cross over the viaduct at Monroe
street and proceed south on Michigan
boulevard TO Fourteenth street where
the line will swing west to the Coli
scum in which the republican conven-
uon Will be IN session TO receive the
| plea of this marching host of women
that an equal suffrage plank be insert
! ed in the platform OF the republican
| party.
Mrs. Harrison Monro Brown saws !:
ms will be the greatest event of its
| klnd ever witnessed the wide world
over. 1t will be an expression of WON
ans dignity, of her humanitarian
| hopes, her desire for equal opportunity
with man and her eagerness to accent
her share of the worlds civic and pub
| lie work"
/ There will be much discussion of the
| parade on June at the suffrage con-
Terence to be held at Centralia Nav 10
and ~ under the auspices of the ILL
nols Equal Suffrage association. This
conference is being arranged by Mrs
Statta Holloway McClung of Mon
mouth, and Mrs. Helen S. Dunn of
Centralia.