The Story of the Woman's PartyGillmore, Inez Haynes
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The Story of the Woman's Party
Gillmore, Inez Haynes
National Woman's Party; Paul, Alice, 1885-1977; Women -- Suffrage -- United States
“And so ever through the West, she went,” Miss Younger said in part,
“through the West that drew her, the West that loved her, until she
came to the end of the West. There where the sun goes down in glory
in the vast Pacific, her life went out in glory in the shining cause
of freedom.... They will tell of her in the West, tell of the vision
of loveliness as she flashed through her last burning mission,
flashed through to her death, a falling star in the western
heavens.... With new devotion we go forth, inspired by her sacrifice
to the end that this sacrifice be not in vain, but that dying she
shall bring to pass that which living she could not achieve, full
freedom for women, full democracy for the nation....”
At the end the quartet sang, _Before the Heavens Were Spread Abroad_.
Then the procession re-formed, and marched out again as it had come, a
slow-moving band of color which gradually disappeared; a river of music
which gradually died to a thread, to a sigh ... to nothing.... As before
the white-surpliced choristers headed the procession, chanting the
recessional, _For All the Saints_. Their banners lowered, the girl
standard-bearers—first those in floating gold, then those in drifting
white, then those in heavy purple—followed. From the far-away reaches of
the winding marble halls sounded the boyish voices. Faintly came:
O, may Thy Soldiers, faithful, true and bold, Fight as the Saints
who nobly fought of old, And win with them the victor’s crown of
gold. Alleluia!
And fainter still:
But, lo, there breaks a yet more glorious day, The Saints triumphant
rise in bright array.
The voices lost themselves in the distance, merged with silence. The
audience still sat moveless, spellbound by all this beauty and grief.
Suddenly the _Marseillaise_ burst from the organ like a call to the new
battle. Instantly, it was echoed by the strings.
On January 9, the President received a deputation of three hundred
women. This deputation brought to him the resolutions passed at
memorials held in commemoration of Inez Milholland from California to
New York.
Sara Bard Field said in part:
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