Evening star., 1934-11-13
THREE SUFFRAGE
P|ONEERSHONORE
Susan Anthony's Nephew
Likens Fight to Repre-
Sentation'S Cause.

Workers for national representation
for the District of Columbia are meet
ing with the same ridiculous answers
from those not interested and those
opposed as did the pioneers working
for woman suffrage, declared Wendell
Phillips Mosher, nephew of Susan B.
Anthony, pioneer suffragist, yesterday.
Mosher was speaking at a ceremony
held in the crypt of the Capitol, under
auspices of the Susan B. Anthony
Forum in commemoration of the 10th
birthday anniversary of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, another pioneer worker
for women's rights.
The gathering was in front Of the
group statue of Mrs. Stanton, Miss
Anthony and Lucretia Mott, another
pioneer in the women's movement.
THE same Indifference and lack OF
understanding" Mesher said, lis met
with today by those seeking repre-
sentation for the District as was met
by the pioneer suffragists in their
fight 1or the other cause"
Eulogy Delivered.
A letter was read at the ceremony
from Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch,
daughter of Mrs. Stanton, by Mrs.
Nora Stanton Barney, daughter OF
Mrs. Blatch, who was unable to at
tend A eulogy of Mrs. Stanton was
delivered by Mrs. Adelaide Johnson,
sculptresS of the group statue. Mrs.
Rose Arnold Powell, founder of the
Susan B. Anthony Forum. presided,
related incidents in the life of Mrs.
Stanton and read resolutions adopted
at the first Women's Rights Conven-
ton at Seneca Falls, N. Y, in 1848.
Mrs. Anna E. Hendley, who knew
personally the three pioneers; Mrs
Mott, Mrs. Stanton and Miss An
thony read excerpts from writings OF
Mrs Stanton.
Mrs. Blatch's letter said:
The first firm step taken toward
the political freedom of the women
of America was set down and re-
1848. 1t was taken by that clear
sighted pioneer, that outStandingly
brave human being, my mother, Eliza
beth Cady Stanton. In that first
clear-cut demand for votes for women
she stood quite alone. Even her close
friend and conferee, Lucretia Mott,
warned, Why. Lizzie, thee will make
us ridiculous
Mrs. Blatch then told in the letter
how her mother had stood alone at
the convention and presented the res
olution declaring, 1T is the duty OF
tire women of America to demand
for themselves the sacred right of the
election franchise"
Suffered RidicuIe.
Then in the face of ridicule by the
newspapers of the time, Mrs. Stanton
continued her fight through the years
for womens rights, the letter related.
Mrs. Johnson, in delivering the
eulogy, paid glowing tribute to Mrs.
Stanton and the other two woman
pioneers represented in the group
statue, telling how they had fought
nobly for the cause of rights Of women.
Wreaths were placed on the base
of the statue in behalf of the forum
by Mrs. Powell; by Mrs. Henry Fenno
Sawtelle, president of the Excelsior
Literary Society, president of the
Capital Society, Children of the Amer
lean Revolution, and second vice
president of the District of Columbia
Federation of Women's Clubs, in be-
half of those groups; by Mrs. j.
Edwin Reid, in behalf of the District
Sunshine and Community Society, of
which she is president. and by Mrs.
F. C. Brinley, in behalf of the District
of Columbia Wornen'S Christian Tenn
perance Union, another in behalf of
the Women's Bar Association of the
District, and by Mrs Percy M. Bailey,
in behalf of the Daughters of the
American Revolution