1914, Suffrage Folk To Have Parade
In The Daily Chronicle, out of De Kalb, Illinois, dated 23 April 1914, Thursday, page 8, had these headlines: "Suffrage Folk To Have Parade." Big demonstration would be held in Chicago on May 2, 1914. Dunne would be invited. The governor was the first official of that class to sign a suffrage law east of the Mississippi river and would have place of honor.
Found on Newspapers.com
Chicago, Ill., April 23 (1914) -- Extending an invitation to all women and men of Illinois to join in the demonstration, Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout today announced details of the monster suffrage parade which would be held in Chicago on May 2, a duplicate of demonstration parades to be held in the other large cities throughout the United States at the same time.
Governor Dunne, who signed the first suffrage law east of the Mississippi, would be the guest of honor of the women, and would be in the party leading the parade. First Illinois cavalry and army officers would be others in the official contingency.
Mrs. Trout's announcement of the plans on that day was as follows:
"The women are going to march under wards in regular Divisions and Battalions. They are going to wear white caps inscribed with the word, 'Illinois' and ten stars in blue representing the suffrage states in the union. Each woman is to carry an American flag. The cap and flag to cost 15 cents, thus putting the cost of the outfit within the purse limit of every woman.
"We are to have a mounted battalion of women, but as commander-in-chief of the procession I and my aids will march. We will not ride in automobiles or on horseback, but will march on foot. Although automobiles and horses have been ordered for us, but there would not be enough to supply all of the women marches. Therefore we are going to march together in the same caps and carrying the same flags.
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