The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-08-27
A MONUMENT TO THE WOMEN
OF THE coNFEpERAcY

Speaking of the monument that is
to be erected to exalt the virtues
sacrifices and heroism of the women
Of the. south, one of the Atlanta pa.
pers speaks of it as follows:
Betting in nobility of conception
and beauty of execution the subject
II is to commemorate, the design for
the manument to the women of the
Lots Cause has been completed. 1t is
the work OF a Dixie girl, Miss Belle
Kinney, Of Nashville, Tenn, and has
been accepted by several states. 1t
is probable that all the states which
left the Union in the civil war will
adopt the design and that replicas of
the monument will be placed in the
capitols of each.
The design for the proposed monu.
ment is very beautiful and elevating.
The central figure, of heroic size, is
the goddess of fame. At her right,
the reclining figure, delicately featur-
ed, beautiful, but with an expression
of exquisite sadness, represents the
self-sacrificing southern woman of
the war time. Fame is represented as
placing a wreath upon a southern
womaR's head, while she supports at
her left a dying and emaciated Con-
federate soldier, to whom the south
em woman is extending, even in
death, the palm of victory.
The design is such that it readily
lends itself to reproduction either in
marble or bronze.
A year or more ago the Daughters
of the Confederacy and the Sons of
Confederate Veterans decided upon
the erection of these monuments in
every state capital in Dixie. The
work was to have been done by an
Italian sculptor. When his design
was submitted at the late Confederate
reunion in Memphis it raised a storm
of protests. The artist had pictured
the southern woman as a militant
and Amazonian figure, carrying in
one hand a sword and in the other
the banner of the Lost Cause. This
conception was as foreign to the gen.
tie, suffering and patient woman of
the southland as those who loved her
had known her, that the design was
rejected by an overwhelming vote.
The angered artist declined to sub
NIT another and Miss Kinney was ap-
pealed to. Tennessee has appropria-
ted $500 through the Daughters and
Sons of the Confederacy for a bronze
cast of the design. Other states are
raising funds for the purpose and it is
believed that by fall each of the for
mer Confederate states will have fol-
lowed suit.
Miss Kinney, the artist, is but %
years of age, and is already a sculp-
tor of more than national fame She
was recently awarded the contract for
a heroic statute of the late Senator
Edward w Carmack of Tennessee,
killed by Cooper. When a child she
received a prize at the Centennial in
Nashville for a bust of her father. She
received an education in art at the
Art Institute in Chicago and later
studied abroad. She was awarded
the contract for twenty Igorrote fig
ures at the Field museum, and has at
tracted a great deal of attention in
art circles throughout the world.
There are democrats and democrats |
and yet other democrats, and it is |
some qualification to know that all
kinds of democrats are praising Gov
ernor GilchIist for the manner he is |
the gubernatorial office |
and carrying out his pledges. There |
is vacany on the board of county |
of Sumter county, and |
the governor says that the vacancy
will be filled upon recommendation of |
the democratic executive committee |
Of Sumter county, provided that rec
is made at a meeting |
Of such committee, with open doors,
after full and timely notice the
place and hour of such meeting, duly |
given to each and every member Of
the committee"
The Young Mems Christian Asso-