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Show SCENES WERE DISGRACEFUL Mob Defies Police and Hurl Lewd Epithets at Women in Parade Washington. March 3. Five thou-1 thou-1 sand women, marching in the woman suffrage ,iaeeant today, practically I fought their way foot by foot up I Pennsylvania avenue, through a surging surg-ing mob that completely defied the Washington police, swamped the marchers and broke their procession into little companies The women, trudging Stoutly along under great difficulties, were able to j complete their march onl when the troops nf cavalry from Fort Myer were I rushed into Washington to take charge J of Pennsylvania avenue No inaucu-l inaucu-l ration has ever produced such scenes which In many instances amounted to nothing less than riots. Indignation Meeting. Later In Continental hall the women wo-men turned what was to have been a suffrage demonstration into an indignation indig-nation meetiug in which the Wash-; Wash-; ington police were roundly denounced for their Inactivity and, and resolutions resolu-tions were ddopted calling upon f'res- W'ilcrwn miH fho Inrnniint' congress to make an investigation and locate the responsibility for the Indignities In-dignities the marchers suffered. Miss Helen Keller, the noted deaf and blind girl, was so exhausted and unnerved by the experience in attempting at-tempting to reach a grand stand where she was to have been a guest of tionor that she was unable to speak later at Continental hall. Many Women in Tears. The scenes which attended the entry en-try of "General" Rosalie Jones and ber hikers" on Thursday, when the I bedraggled women had to tight their I way up Pennsylvania avenue, swamp-eu swamp-eu by a mob with which lew policemen police-men struggled In vain, were repeated today, but upon a vastly larger scale. The marchers had to light their way from the start and took more than one hour in making the first ten blocks Many of the women were In tears under the jlbe6 and Insults of the mob that lined the route. Although stout wire ropes had been stretched up and down the entire en-tire length of Pennsylvania avenue ; from the Peace monument to the D 'II I behind the White House, the enormous crowds that gathered early to obtain points of vantage overstepped them or crawled beneath Apparently no effort was made to drive back the t-espassers In the early hours, wltb the result that when the parade started start-ed it faced at almost every hundred yards a solid wall of humanity. Crowd a Hostile One. On the w hole. It was a nostne crown through which the women marched. Miss Inez Mllholland herald of the procession, distinguished herself by riding down a mob that blocked the way and threatened to disrupt the parade. Another woman member of the "petticoat cavalry" struck a hoodlum hood-lum a stinging blow across the lace with her riding crop in reply to a scurrilous remark as she was passing pass-ing The mounted police seemed powerless pow-erless in st. in the tide of humanity, j Hoodlums Disgust White House Party A group of hoodlums gathered In : front of the reviewing stand. In which I sat Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen Tftft, and a half dozen invited guests from1 the White House. They kept up a running fire of caustic comment Apparently Ap-parently no effort was made to remove re-move them, and evidently disgusted, the White House party left before I the procession had passed In its halting halt-ing and Interrupted journev toward Continental hall, where a mass meet-I meet-I ing was held. Tableaux Beautiful The tableaux on the steps of the treasury building. framed in the great columns and the broad stairway stair-way of the government house, wer3 begun when the parade started Irom its rendezvous at the base of the cap-llol. cap-llol. Beautiful In its color and grouping, group-ing, the dramatizations of women's aspirations for political freedom was completed long before the head of the parade was in sight. In their thin dresses and bare arms the perlormers waiting, shivering, for more than an hour until finally they were forced to seek refuse within the big building build-ing Around the ireasury department the crowds were massed so tightly that repealed charges by the police were seemingly ineffective Occasionally the mob gave way in one place only to mreak over and under the wire hedge at some other. Cavalry Appears. When the cavalry suddenly appear -I ed there was a wild outburst of applause ap-plause In the reviewing stand. The men in brown virtually brushed aside the mounted and foot police and took Charge. In two lines the troop etaarg-1 ed the crowds. Evidently realizing that they would I be ridden down the mobs fought their way back. When they hesitated the cavalrvmen drove their horses Into the throngs and whirled and wheeled until hooting men and women were forced to retreat. A space was quickly cleared. Parade Itself a Success The parade in itself, in spite of the delays, was a great success. Tasslng through two walls of antagonistic humanity hu-manity the marchers for the most part kept their temper. They puffered insult in-sult and closed their ears to jibes and jeers. Few faltered, although several of trie older women were forced to drop out from time to time. I The greatest ovation probably was I given to "General" Rosalie Jones, who I led her little band of "hikers" from Ww York over rough roads and through snow and rain to march for I the cause. "General Jones was radiant. She l carried a great bunch of American Beauty roses, which made a splash of scarlet against the dull brown of her hooded tramping gown Police Denounced. The opening address by Dr. Anna Shaw, president of the National American Am-erican Woman's Suffrage association, was a bitter excoriation of the police. po-lice. "Never was I so ashamed of our national capital before." she said. "If anything could prove the need ol ttu ballot, nothing could prove it more than the treatment we received today. to-day. The women in the parade showed show-ed wonderful dignlt and self respect by keeping cool in the midst of Insult and lewd remarks Hoodlums were given freedom In the streets today without any adequate attempt being made to protect us" Congressional Investigation. Oswald Garrison Villard of New-York, New-York, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, Gar-rison, at the conclusion of Dr Shaw's address, read the resolution which she had suggested in her speech, calling for congressional Investigation and it was adopted with wild cheers Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the International SuTfraK association, associa-tion, declared that members of con-i gress should demand an Invest ig-at;.on Many of the men along the Hue, she declared, "were drunk enough for the lockup." In no other nation but Switzerland, she said, have the women wom-en been forced to take their appeal for voto "to the rabble " |