THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 71, 1 April 1913, Page 8

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

MALE SUPPORTERS EJECTED. (I3y Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 11.10 a.in.) London, March 31. Three male suffragettes were ejected from the Marconi Enquiry for interjecting remarks concerning Mr Lloyd George’s treatment of women. AMUR 1C AX SUFFRAGISTS.

To the strains of “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Gins are Marching,” sixteen! Amciican suffragists left New York on February 13th on a march to Washington, where they 7 Hoped to take part in President Wilson’s inauguration procession on March-4th. x ney wore brown Capuchin' hoods and capes and brown bloomers. General Rosalie Jones, who led the recent march to the State Legislative capital in Albany, was in command, and ten of the remaining fifteen were officers of hei stall'. It is 250 miles to Washington, and Colonel Ida Craft, second in command, said: “We’ll walk every blessed yard, rain, snow, or blizzard.” One marcher wore a pair of hob-nailed boots, such as Sir E. Shackleton wore iu his tramp towards the South Pole. She said that one of Sir Ernest’s men, who sympathised with votes for women, had lent the boots, and they had been padded to accommodate her. The column marched in military’ style, with the advance guard travelling two miles ahead. A supply column, consisting of a little yellow waggon, crammed with miscellaneous goods, including literature, brought up the rear. General Jones, addressing the enormous crowd assembled to witness the departure, said that the suffragists would try to cover 15 miles daily, whereupon somebody 7 shouted “Perhaps less.” “We want to .show the world,” said Miss Jones, “that there is an orderly, disciplined demonstration in America on the part of the suffragists, and we regard such idiotic excesses as window-smashing not only as unworthy of our cause, but 'as unworthy of womanhood. (Cheers.) We 'shall win votes for women by showing that we deserve them, and that we are just as law-abiding in our campaign as the men.” Cries of Good for you, Rosalie!” and cheers greeted this outburst. “Fall in, girls,” said the general, whereupon tbe crowd tittered, because six of the marchers were married women of mature years, and the rest, with the exception of pretty Miss Crowell, of Brooklyn, not precisely schoolgirls. Bands of suffragists nujt the pilgrims en route and provided sleeping quarters.