"All my life I
have believed in the right of women to exercise the franchise
with men as a matter of justice. I will do what I can to advance
their political rights and have already incorporated in my
Message advice to the legislators to pass the suffrage measure."

The "hike" had resulted in such tremendous advertising of woman
suffrage that another on a larger scale to Washington was
planned. "General" Jones and "Colonel" Craft were reinforced by
"little Corporal" Martha Klatschken of New York and a large
group, who were joined by others along the route. The "army" was
mustered in at the Hudson Terminal, New York, at 9 a. m. on
Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 12, 1913, and the start was made a
little later at Newark, N. J. Each marcher wore a picturesque
long brown woolen cape. The little yellow wagon with the good
horse "Meg," driven by Miss Elizabeth Freeman, was joined at
Philadelphia by Miss Marguerite Geist, with a little cart and
donkey, and she helped distribute the suffrage buttons, flags and
leaflets.

Thousands of people were gathered at Newark to see the start of
this "army of the Hudson," which now was known as the "army of
the Potomac," and hundreds marched with them the first day. After
this about a hundred fell in at each town and marched to the next
one. Alphonse Major and Edward Van Wyck were the advance agents
who arranged for the meetings and the stopping places for the
night. They were constantly attended by the press correspondents,
at one time forty-five of them with their cameras, besides the
magazine writers. The Mayors of the places along the route would
send delegations to meet them and escort them to the town hall,
where the speech-making would begin. At Wilmington, Del., the
city council declared a half-holiday; the Mayor and officials met
them at the edge of town and escorted them to the town hall,
which was crowded, and they were obliged also to hold street
meetings for hours. They reached Philadelphia at 7 o'clock Sunday
evening, where the streets had been packed for hours awaiting
them, and it was only by holding street corner meetings on the
way that they could get to the hotel.

The Princeton University students had been roaming around all the
afternoon waiting for them, as there were a number of young