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Show CAPITAL IS SCANDALIZED W ashington Ablaze With Indignation Over Treatment of Women Washington. Mar. 4 Suffragists toduy were preparing to press before the Incoming congress their demands j for a thorough lnvesticatlon of the 1 lack of protection extended to them during their parade yesterday. The ordeal through which the marchers passed, however, gained for them j many sympathizers and many sup- I porters in places where they had not looked for converts. Roth official and civic Washington is ablaze with Indignation In-dignation at the treatment of the women which irtually scandalized the national capital. Had It not been for the opportune ' appearance of the cavalry In the j ( b. Ight of the crush of yesterday it Is; very possible that a heavy toll of life; ramht have been exacted. As It is. i ih'-re are more than 100 persona In the hospitals today who are suffering from broken limbs and other Injuries sustained in the crush of the uncon-trolled uncon-trolled mobs. Even the antl-suffraglsts who have combatted the "votes for women" crusade unremittingly expressed Indignation In-dignation at the slights placed upon their sex in the procession of yester- ciay. Thev condemned the police j. reparations and evidently were pre- pared to support their sisters In the other camp in their demand thnt some explanation be made for the failure to provide the necessary protection. |