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Show PARADE STREETS TO ADVANCE SUFFRAGE CAUSE IBANNER CARRIED BY WOMEN WHO PARTICIPATE QUFFPAGETTES WHO PARADED MAIN STREET THURSDAY AFTERNOON Left to right Miss Mabel Vernon of j Washington Mrs Lillian Tanner Mrs Mary Lawrence and Mrs Hannah Lapish of Salt Lake, Miss Mary Conkle of I Philadelphia Pa Mrs Mane Mahon of New "iork Call Upon Senator Smoot, Who Pledge Himself to Aid Movement CAPRTING the purple white and gold banner of the cause twentj f ve women paraded n automo b les through Salt Lake streets vesterda afte noon in the name of Buf f ae From the Newhouse hotel the nae was made to the Hotel Utah where the women gathered befo e Senator Reed Sj oot and thanked h m for h s work for si Sfrage n the past and asked bun to s po t the movement in the future M s Mabel Vernon field ripresen tat e fo the Congress onal Union for Woman s Suffrage addressed Senator Smoot n the name of the national union Senator Smoot n his replv aesured the women that he would do all in his Eower to prevent the bills for the cause eing s detracked through foraal t es and declared that he would vote for the Bristol amendment to the constitution Following Held s band in the parade M ss Mabel Vernon and Miss Mary Conkle of Philadelphia rode in a car decorated with the suffrage eolors. Thev earned a banner on wh ch the words We Demand an Amendment to the United States Conatitt t on Enfranchis ing Women were printed Among the local women who rode in the parade were Mrs. Emmeline B Wells, Mrs F S Richards Mrs Mar garet Zano Cherdron, Mrs Elizabeth M Cohen Mrs W J WoUtenholme Mrs Elizabeth Havward Mrs R chard R Lyman Mrs B T Pvper Mrs C b Klhnev Mrs Rnth M Fox Mrs Hyde Mrs Ada Faust, Mrs H F Schiller and Mrs L C Paddison An effort was made to get ex Preei dent Taft to pose for a pict re with the women, Miss ernon and a com pan on entered the presidential suite of the Hotel Utah through wide open doors. It appeared to be acant An other s-lance showed president al feet Jrotrud ng from the end of the bed udge Taft was rest ng The suffrage Bcouts retreated Before the parade a luncheon was given in the oak room of the Newhooee hotel fo Mies Al ce Paul of Wash ng ton D C chn rman of the Congress on al t n on for Woman s Suffrage Miss Paul had been delaved on her trip and 111 not arrive unt 1 late Mn Frarael ne B. "Wells and Mrs Hanna Lapish pioneers of Salt Lake and prominent in the birth of suffrage were escorted with the women to Sen ator Smoot s quarters at the hotel To elect delegates to tha nat onal suffrage convention in San Francisco next month a meeting will be held In the assembly hsll of the B shop s b lid ng at o dock th s afternoon M ss Alice Paul Mrs Annie Wells Cannon cha rman of the convention and Sena tor Ccorge Sutherland will be the pr n e pal speakers The women also plan to thank Senator Sutherland for his work for suffrage |