It was decided to present these resolutions to the President. Shortly after, Dudley Field Malone, Collector of the Port of New York, on behalf of the Woman’s Party, informed the President that a deputation would visit him for that purpose. This demonstration was not so much a protest at the failure of the first administration to pass the Anthony Amendment, or at the adjournment of Congress without passing it, as a presentation of the demands of the National Woman’s Party immediately upon the opening of President Wilson’s second term. During the first three days in March, Washington filled steadily with inauguration crowds. When they got off the train, the Great Demand banner of the National Woman’s Party confronted them, and girls handed them slips inviting them to the demonstration of the National Woman’s Party at the White House on Inauguration Day and to the mass-meeting of the National Woman’s Party to be held that night. Girls also stood in theatre lobbies, handing out more of these slips. Girls made the rounds of the government departments, handing out still more. Everywhere great posters said: COME TO THE WHITE HOUSE ON MARCH 4. COME IN THOUSANDS. Inauguration Day dawned a day of biting wind and slashing rain. Outside Headquarters was turmoil; inside a boiling activity. Hundreds of women were preparing to picket the White House. To accommodate them, a rubber company, hastily summoned, had commandeered one room and was selling rain-coats; tarpaulin hats; rubbers. An extraordinary, a magnificent demonstration followed. To the music of several bands, nearly a thousand pickets circled the White House four times—a distance of four miles. Vida Milholland, the younger sister of Inez Milholland, marched at the head, carrying on a golden banner her sister’s last words for Suffrage. MR. PRESIDENT, HOW LONG MUST WOMEN WAIT FOR LIBERTY? The Great Demand banner followed, carried by Mrs. Benton Mackaye: WE DEMAND AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ENFRANCHISING WOMEN. Beulah Amidon carried the Suffrage banner which Inez Milholland bore in the first Suffrage procession in New York: “Forward, Out Of Darkness, Leave Behind The Night. Forward Out Of Error, Forward Into Light.”