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Show TOE AVOMEN WHO WON SUFFRAGE i ! In the esil d.ir of the Woodiow Wilson ndminlhtnitlon Melting delegations dele-gations of women demanding the right to vote were given scant consideration con-sideration at the White Ilousn. Kv-, n Mr. riryan. then In high faor as! pmmler cabinet otflcer, expressed lit-. 'tie InliTcat arid on one, occasion said, that "the country Is not ready to, ta-ko up this Ifinie." The persistent women who finally "got In" to sou President Wilson wee. told that their Isue wiwj a matter for the states, Klnully the natlooal orgatilwitloti sdlf In two IrtrlKius and among the Aioup of co.U'ol vaiIvcm" who continued con-tinued to teiuuln piitlo.nl with the dilatory dil-atory polttlrlnriii In ;dmlitnti-itlo elr-eliis elr-eliis aud lu ennress, were the followers fol-lowers or Anna Howard Shaw and her successor Mis. Call. The "111111-taiil" "111111-taiil" hioiip oig.inUed Inilepemleiitly and Ulidei tho Icudetrlitp or Miss Alice Paul, 'tool up iho ehulh'ngo of Plesldeul Wilson to "e.oneerl public opinion," b plilietliiR the White iluuno one lioui later. TIipm- iroiuen noli' (Iragge.l thiough the sluel of Wablilugioii, ( In own inio prison, jvont on hunger sullies and weie enlled all i be vll nnmoi In the li-Nl-eon of puklnd t.mmIi for flaunting iliPir bniuuii in the r.mllol ami oili- r public plaees. Hill lliiuiigli II nil the remained f.iiih i,w. ot. Hut when the day of success nml nllimph ennie. the "nillllnnU" wore rvrounlj,t a? 'he li ad of the Bllf-rragu Bllf-rragu nio.'i.ent nd littfc h:ii boon henril or til- "i.lvi rvaliti-H." Alice I'.ull, who .. n. i or to u'jto was palled "a little i.lip of a woinun." in igiiutor ur.d thing lots worn--, was1 leCOKUlze,) by tho powers that up-jiolnled up-jiolnled ibo luauvwiSl comtulileo' ml Hdnllar liopoilinl bodies. Shn "(iOiiih, vei 6UildiUly to have .become tiki- the Mnne which the builders n -fused, the he.idstolies of Ihr corner. Thifolrii'oT'1la, BiiffM'-e meiiKiri. ' to the IbreY ptui.Tcr. of the women's MHBMMMMMWWMMNiMMMIIHmMWMi movement in the Vnitod Slates- Su-f.an Su-f.an II. Anthonj, Lucielln Mott and KU.uhcth Cady Stanton, was uu etled In (he rotunda of the eapltol of the I'nlled Slates. It whs one of the moit Impressive reiemonles In I lie history of the entire women's inot-ineiil, inot-ineiil, und it maiked what Is perhaps the final acceptance of the nurct'Mi iof women's sulfrage by the highest otttclnls or the nation. Alice Paul, aud her followers, now' swelled la 'numbers by reason of their stirresses worts the undisputed heads o'f u'uf-rVage u'uf-rVage ippresentatlon In that great cttiv.mony. Washliigfnu whleh Iwoted the mil-' Hants nuw go:s to Ips aud dinner at their headquarters, and admits I'hiil thp mejls ate fln. .Sufliagists who held aloor In the old d.i-s. huw con-eluded con-eluded that Miss Paul's gi'onp nhould lo "eulthated" .md tho .leldf to he included lu the ufTiilrn or ih Nuilo-al Nuilo-al Wiiim n's paity. ,On Hip other hand the msgniriccnt hcadquuileis or the "ponsei vathoi" 'pieslded oer by Mrs. rail :m her ilrlends, has ben cloned, and Hi" in omen hiue left Ibo eapltol. Uvei. the men III eongreim who niailc long-wtnded long-wtnded speeches aboiu ilie.; women Inn ilng Miinnino me now i.nlng "You liio got to luiiiil Ii m iliem: ihe wfcn." i |