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Show ENTHUSIASM REIGNS AS WOMEN PARADE Great Saturday Night Crowds See Fireworks and Hear Salutes. HELEN TODD SPEAKS Meeting Held at Headquarters Headquar-ters After Marchers Get j; , Through. m. ,. With a women's parade, much, red fire, Roman candles, firing of guns, discoursing dis-coursing of music from advantageous stands and parading the streets with floats advertising political meetings and candidates, Salt Lake assumed some- r thing of the air last night of a city entering the final throes of a strenuous political campaign. The streets were thronged witli an unusually largo Saturday night crowd and, under the influence of the music, red fire and other enthusiasm generators, genera-tors, the crowd responded somewhat, but not with the spirit that has been witnessed wit-nessed upon the streets in past campaigns. cam-paigns. The parade was furnished by the Utah branch of the Woman's party organization. organiza-tion. The music, red fire and bombardment bombard-ment with blank shells from convenient building tops were provided by the Hughes alliance and local Eepublicau organizations. Floats were put out advertising ad-vertising Nephi L. Morris for governor and C. R. Mabey for congress, and the bandstands all bore big streamers advertising ad-vertising the George Sutherland meeting meet-ing to be held at the Salt Lake theater Monday night at 8 o'clock. Noise Drowns Voices. All of the men's and women's organizations organ-izations joined last night in making one big demonstration upon the streets of the city for the benefit of the public that always is out on Saturday night and that is difficult to reach at any other time or in any other way than by street demonstrations. Candidates on the Republican ticket, both state and county, drove from street corner to corner in autos and sought to make political speeches, but the crowd was not in a humor to listen to street speeches and almost every' effort ef-fort was put forth under difficulties. The speakers had to talk against such noise from the sidewalks and streets that they could hardly make themselves heard and in some places were forced to atop speaking and drive away because be-cause the noise was too much. The crowd had more of the carnival spirit than of the political spirit and they wanted to march up and down the street making their own noise, rather than to stand and listen to the expound-ing expound-ing of political principles. f The main event of the evening was the parade of members of the Woman's party of Utah. This was unique and most attractive in its formation and features. . Woman Is Marshal. The parade formed at Eagle gate, marched down State street to Third South street, thence west to Main street, thence north on Main Btreet to the Brig-hanN Brig-hanN Young monument, around this and counter-marched to the Woman's party headquarters at 63 Main street, where the parade disbanded and everybody was invited inside to hear an address on woman suffrage and the importance of electing Charles Evans Hughes by Miss Helen Todd. The parade was headed by Inspector A. J. Mullings of the police department in the police machine, followed by a squad of mounted officers wearing the colors of the Woman's party. Mrs, E. E. Jenkins, mounted on a beautiful white horse and wearing the party colors, was grand marshal of the parade and led the column of marching women. Behind her was a band and immediately after that was the American Ameri-can flag floating from a standard borne by a woman attired as Columbia and supported by two young girls attired in the national colors. Next to them was a large American flag borne flat-' wise by fourteen women and girlfl. Parade Is Cheered. Next came forty-six women marching march-ing in double column, wearing sashes of the Woman's party colors and bearing bear-ing Japanese lanterns lighted and suspended sus-pended from tiny walking canes. Interspersed In-terspersed along the column were girls bearing banners, urging the publie to vote for Hughes and to oppose Wilson and others, and demanding the right of suffrage for all women of the laud. There was also a banner demanding a constitutional amendment to the constitution consti-tution of the United States providing for nation-wide suffrage for women. The parage was brought up in the rear by twenty-five automobiles deco- -rated in flags, bunting, Woman 'a party colors and Japanese lanterns. The autos were nearly all filled with women and girls. The parade was nearly two blocks in length. The parade, as it marched along the business streets of the city, won mixed comment and applause. From those of similar political beliefs there was cheering cheer-ing and handclapping of approval, .but from others there were curt queries and remarks making light of the contentions conten-tions of the Woman's party that suffrage suf-frage for women is spelled only by the defeat of Mr. WUboii and the election of Mr. Hughes. Bandstands had been provided at the intersection of Third South and Main street, and a band was stationed on the balcony of the Kenyon hotel and another an-other was stationed on a platform in front of the Woman's party headquarters headquar-ters on Main street, from which music mu-sic was discoursed during the parade and during the entire evening after the affair. |