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Show . Women Seek to Immortalize Suffrage Pioneer s . . - By Placing Marble Bests in Hall of Fame . Suffragists Say Women Are Credited With Two Greatest Great-est Reforms. WASHINGTON, D. C, June 1. With the right to vote goes tho right to representation in the ''Hall of Fame." say the suffragists. ' The National Woman's party, tho militant wing of the suffragists, has launched a campaign to place in Stat-juary Stat-juary hall In the national capltol marble mar-ble busts of Susan B. Anthony, Eliza-i Eliza-i beth Cady Stanton and Lucretla Mott, pioneers In suffrage work. Susan B. Anthony heads the list because aho wrote the federal amendment that is about to be ratified, and Elizabeth Stanton andd Lucretia Mott cailed tho 'first women's right convention at I Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 184S. At the present time closo to one hundred famous men are Immortalized j in this hall"- of fame but only ono I woman. Frances E. Wlllard, founder j of the W. C. T. IT., Is recognized. Suf-I Suf-I fraglsts here point to tho" fac; that women aro given credit for putting over what they consider" tho nation's two greatest reforms, prohibition end I equal suirrage. xno aju.it wtinout a i vote, and were opposed in it by many j of the men, who had tho vote. I Kail Filled With .Men. ".Now that wc have the vote, wc are j going to demand recognition for our I honorc dead." declared a member of j the National Woman's party. "Tho nation has many women who mu greater than many of the men who havo been made. Into marblo and bronze, but the reason they haven't been given a placo I3 because thoy have had no votes." Some difficulty is anticipated by the women in breaking into the ha I! of fame, because what is known as "Statuarry hall" is already about monopolized by statues of men. In 1S51 congress passed an act invitinc; each stale to send statues of two of ltd most famous persons. Illinois sent , one of Frances Wlllard. Susan B. Anthony An-thony and Elizabeth Stanton are from ! New York, and that state Is ulready I represented by George Clinton 'ana ' Robert Livingston. L,ucrotia Mott is j from" Pennsylvania and .Robert Fulton and Muhlenberg are representing that state. . Bc?un in 1SSG. Somo statues presented rby organizations organ-izations occupy places in tho rotunda. Unless by a special act the Anthony-Stanton-Mott busts can be placed in the main hall, they may bo placed in the rotunda, now occupied only by statues of Washington, Lincoln ana a few nationally great men. The hirsts of the threo women are I mounted on one pedestal, and tho ( piece is now in Rome. It is the work I of Mrs. Adelaido Johnson, well-known American sculptress, Sho began it In . 1SSG with tho consent' of Miss Anthony, An-thony, and financed by a committee , which appealed for funds. Another i Sculptural lieads or militants, with . inset oT American nrUsl. I appeal for fund3 will be made to pcyj I tho expenses of ycttinj; the piece to I this country. ADBLAOB JOMMC&V The figures ace -R-onderful likenesses like-nesses of the three greatest militant suffragists vhlla in tho height of their fame. Members of th National Woman's party, who picketed the Whito House, say Sun Anthony was the. first militint. She was tha first woman over arrested .in America for her principles since tho, days, of witch-, craft. In order so test the. validity of the .14th and 15th amendments she east ballots .at the state and congressional congres-sional elections i n 1872. She -was indicted for illegal voting- and a flno wan imposed. She refused to pay, but was not jailed. |