Volume 14 , Issue 49

1912 - Women To March Here March 4 (1913)

We found this interesting article in The Washington Herald, dated Monday, December 2, 1912, out of Washington, D.C., concerning the suffragists plan to have section in the Inaugural parade. They were to discuss plans during the present week. If no place is given in Big Show, there would be separate pageant.

As the article reads, "Women will march in the inaugural parade March 4 (1913), for the plans of the District of Columbia State Woman Suffrage Association, made known at the recent national convention of woman suffragists at Philadelphia by Miss Florence Etheridge, the District president, have already advanced far enough o assure their being carried out."

The executive board of the national association, to which the plans proposed by Miss Etheridge were referred, and not yet made known whether it would approve or disapprove of them, but approval was expected. Dr. Anna Shaw, president of the national association, expressed herself as heartily in favor of the woman suffragists, both mean nd women, among a demonstration here on Inauguration Day, either by participating in the inaugural parade, or by having an independent parade. Dr. Shaw said she would be present. Others of the national officers declared their willingness to do what they could.

Local Women Enthusiastic

The District State Association would meet at the residence of Mrs. William Tindall at 8 o'clock Wednesday night to discuss the plans. The woman suffragists here were enthusiastic in their endorsement of the plans which their association offered through its president to the convention at Philadelphia, and they expect to march Inauguration Day, even if they have to march alone, which they do not anticipate.

Mrs. Champ Clark and other prominent women were said to have promised their aid in organizing for the parade. Tentative plans were that the suffragists shall have a section int he inaugural parade and march by States. Especial attention would be paid to the delegations from the sTates which had admitted women tot he ballot. The suffrage section would be nonpartisan, no question of party entering into the matter. Ten thousand women, it had been estimated, would take part int he demonstration.

District woman suffragists were hopefully anticipating the results of the meeting to be held by the Maryland State Woman Suffrage Association at the Baltimore Tuesday for a discussion of the plans for the suffragists to take part in the inauguration parade. Some of the Maryland suffragists were noted as organizers and their aid would be of the greatest benefit, it was declared. Maryland would be expected to send a parade delegation, as would Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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