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Mrs. E. F. Feickert Will Lead New Jersey Women in Big Demonstration. One of the most pituresque suf frage demonstrations ever planned in this country will be staged at Chicago today during the Republic can = National convention. There w ill be a parade, but it will differ from the former suffrage parades that have been held in this couentry because in addition to visualizing the nation-wide demand on the part of American women—the demand for an equal suffrage plank in the Republican National platform. The New Jersey delegation will be lead by the State President, Mrs. Edward F. Feickert, of Plainfield, and among the New Jersey women in Mae will be Mrs. E. G. Blaisdell, of Glassboro; Miss Esther G. Ogden, of Elizabeth; Mrs Francis de Lacey Hyde, of Plainfield; Miss A. E. Cam eron, of Glen Ridge; Mrs. William Birdsall, of East Orange: Mrs. Joe seph H. Marvel, of Atlantic City, al so Mrs. Wilson TD. Lyon, of Glen Ridge. A unique feature of the Chicago parade will be the mobization of the thousands of women who are to take part in it along the Lake Shorea in Grant Park. In no other cities have the paraders ever been able to take advantage of so vast an open space in which to mobilize Usually the procedure has been for the var ious groups to form alongside streets leading to the main parading thoroughfare, and to fall in line from these street entrances. In Chi cago, however, Grant Park affords acres of open space adherent to Michigan Boulevard, and when the women assemble there this after noon this acreage will be con verted into a veritable suffrage garden, for the dull brown earth will be blotted out by the white sons of thousands of women. These gowns, garnished with sashes of suf frage wool and cut of at intervals by the gleaming banners of the parad ers, promise to furnish one of the most wonderful and splendid suf frage pictures ever secon Then at f one o'clock this after noon with yellow banners flying and bands playing the woren will ad vance across the vladium leading to Michigan Boulevard seat parade to the Coliseum, where the men who are to choose the Republican candi date for the National Presidency will be in session. In the white and gold lines that will sweep down Michigan Boulevard there will be working girls marching becr the wo men who have been born to fortune; women who have toiled all their lives in sweatshops, mill and factory, and in this picture will be embod ied the whole democracy of the suf frage movement. But whether work ing girl or society woman, each marcher in line will be keeping step to the beat of a single thought that of impressing upon the mascu line voters of this country the neces sity of having the National Reptb- Mean convention insert an equal suffrage plank in its national party platform. The women in line will not de pend upon their presence alone to convey this thought to the Republi can delegates. Marching in the ranks with them will be two gentle hints,” weighing a ton apiece and carrying a suffrage plank between them. The ‘gentle hints’ in ques tion will be perfectly good “G. O. P.” elephants, and the plank which they are to carry will symbolize the suf frage plank which the National American Woman Suffrage Associa tion wants incorporated in the Re publican party's National platform.
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Plainfield Daily Press
Plainfield, New Jersey, US
Wed, Jun 07, 1916
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