The suffrage campaign wagon used by Edna Buckman Kearns.
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How could a wealthy woman like Alva Belmont be a radical Votes for Women advocate?
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Go, Mrs. Belmont. You’re not in the same category of those rich ladies today who love rubbing elbows with the one percent of our nation and then look down on the rest of us as lazy and undeserving. Mrs. Belmont stuck her neck out and you can be sure there were plenty of those who would have wanted it cut off.