Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-06


Washington.
In the very first issue of the SUNDAY
GLOBE, in advocating the franchise for the
District of Columbia and local home gov
ernment we used the following language
"If the Americans visiting Europe this
summer were TO state in Paris, London or
Berlin that there is portion of the United
States where men are born and die who are
not citizens of the United States such state
ments would be received with iucredulity
as foreigners are aware that il Is only the
couvicts in our state peuitentiaries who are
diafranchised. If informed however that
over three hundred thousand people resid-
ing at the seat Of the National Government
were not only disfranchised but absolutely
ruled over by impor ed politicians, commits
sioners, judges and administrators from
other states, the Europeans would shrug
their shoulders and perhaps remark mot
capable of self government or they would
revolt" This Is precisely what any other
people would do but Americans born and
resident of the District of Columbia.
Warsaw, the capitat of ancient Poland;
Dublin, the capital Of the Emerald Isle,
have home rule government and the ciu-
zens of those cities name their local rulers,
despite the fact that Ireland and Poland are
subjugated countries, under the heels of for
eign tyrauts. The Irishmau aud the Pole
can sneer at the Washingtonians and ridi-
cule his serf-like condition in the free land
of his birth
why is it thus, and will it continue until
Motives that would move an ague's frost
Shall nerve the towards arm to resistance?
Ambition is dead in the breasts of our
young men, who see no future of useful
ness or honorable career in the service Of
their fellow citizens Ia the city of their
birth. In all other cities villages and ham
lets of this broad contin Mt youth looks for
ward to the twenty-frst birthday the
greatest event In their existence, for on that
day they become citizens and peers in the
mightiest Republic this world has ever
seen. But in the Capital of the nation the
youth oftwenty. one, as the grey-haired sire,
are political eunuchs and helOts IN the land
of their birth.
Organizations in every legislative dis
trict, irrespective of party, should take this
matter in hand and unite in a movement to
obtain from Congress the inalienable right
of self government for the District of Col
umbia aud the city of Washington"
The stars between the two quoted para
graphs represent over a column of fulsome
eulogy of a weil-known leading Democrat,
whose constant boast is that he has spent
Democrat in the District
The editor Of the GLOBE has worked
eighteen hours each day for the past year
and dropped about $1,000 endeavor-
ing to establish a Democratic newspaper,
and not single Democrat in the District of
Columbia has rendered it the aid of a single
dollar Not even the great leader, whose
constant boast of large expenditures for the
party agitate the circumambient air and the
meetings Of Democratic committeesl Had
the GLOBE tafied the chiefs and high
officials of the Government eulOgized
Teddy aud catered to the schemers putting
through steals of all kinds, il would be
financially independent instead of a solicit
tor for the aid which has SO far been re-
fused it. We have Republicans on our
mailing lists who paid for one years. sub
scription in advance because they approved
of our efforts to secure Home Rule for the
District, but what will the rank and file of
the local Democracy think when we inform
them that not a single Democrat in the Dis
trict extended even this much aid or conf
dence. Mo- mot even James l. Norris, who
has been solicited and declined to pay two
dollars for a years subscription in advanced
He simply takes no chances, but pur-
chases it every Sunday for FIVE cents. so
that if the GLOBE is forced to suspend he
will not be out a solitary nickel
II is just as we'll that some plain truths
should be laid before the District Democ-
racy by an Ohio Democrat who has been
accustomed all his fife to a different kind of
Democracy to that exhibited here, from
the financial point of view, in the support
of Democratic newspapers.
Were the GLOBE to suspend publication
there would not be in the Nations Capitol
a single organ, daily or weekly, of the Dem
ocratic party, and the GLOBES editor Is uot
a Cresus or philanthropist to work eigh-
teen hours a day and put in his hard
earned ducats to sustain ALONE a Demo-
cratic newspaper.
We have been led to wash this piece of
linen in public by the excuses suggestions,
etc, OF the District Democrats who have
been solicited for assistance. Some of them
who have never evidently read the GLOBE,
thought that If we advocated the franchise
for the District the local Democrats would
give the paper assistance" Such is flannel
Hardly an issue of the GLOBE has appeared
without an attack on our present form Of
government and the foreign despots ruling
us, from Newspaper man Mcfarland to the
assigned military satrap detailed by the
Secretary of War.
Summing the whole matter up, we have
about come to the conclusion that the Dis
trict Democracy, including its alleged
leader, have about the kind of local govern
ment they desire and exclusive of the
GLOBE, the kind Of newspapers they prefer
in the Star, Times. ct ai The GLOBE,
nevertheless, will try and worry along
somehow, and speaking plain truths tear
the masks from off political as well as all
other kind Of whited sepulchres who pose
and mouth their protestations OF sanctity
in morals and loyalty in politics to the dis
gust and amazement of those who know