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Show WOMEN TO MARCH TO WHITE HOUSE TODAY Object Is to Get an Expression From President Wilson on Suffrage Question. WASHINGTON. Fob. 1. Bent upon ! drawing soma declaration from President Wilson ao to his attitude on tho woman suffrage quostlon, women workers from ton states were In Washington tonight prepared for an interview at the White house tomorrow. With the arrival of the Baltimore contingent tomorrow, tho combined com-bined delegations will include mora than 350 women, representing the working classes from factory, mill, shop and office. of-fice. Miss Marguerite Tllnchey. a laundry worker of Now York, and Miss Rose Win-slow, Win-slow, a Pennsylvania weaver, woro selected se-lected by suffrage leaders tonight to address ad-dress the president. Their appeals will bo principally an argument for the creation crea-tion of a house committor on suffrage. Although they also will endeavor to elicit Eomo comment from the president as to his personal attitude on trie suffragox issue. is-sue. Receptions for the visitors were given today and tonight at hotels and the residences resi-dences of local suffragists. Senator La Follotte. Representative MacDonald of 'Michigan and Representative Keating of Colorado cheered tho hopes of tho women with predictions of universal suffrage within the near future. Tomorrow morning's delegations will hold a mass meeting, after which, at. 12:15 o'clock, they will "fall In" and march to the White house. The states represented by the delcga- Hons aro Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York. New .Torsey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland Mary-land and Rhode Island. Tho EHstrlct of Columbia also will bo represented |