Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-10
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Views Expressed at Meeting OF
Citizens Association.
MEMBERS CIVIC SOLDIERS
Guests Entertained by Brightwood
Organization.
THERE ARE TWO WASHINGTONS
Suffrage in the District and More
Cohesion on the Part Of
the Citizens.

Mr. Thomas c. Noyes was the special
guest of the Brightwood Citizens Associa-
ton last evening at o'clock in Brightwood
Hotel. The other guests were Mr. Benja-
min Holman. disbursing officer, Post Of
flee Department. Mr.. w. 8. Mexican. or
ganizer of the Business Mems Association:
Mr.. T. H. Green Of mississippi: Mr.. William
NICK. Clayton. former president of the
Brightwood Park Citizens Association;
and Mr.. D. J. Particle. secretary OF the
Petworth Citizens Association.
Suffrage In the District and more CO.
hesion on the part Of the citizens of this
city in local affairs were the keynotes of
the remarks of Mr.. Noyes, which were en-
Enthusiastically received by those present. He
spoke of the members of the citizens asso-
Citations as Civic soldiers and of the or
CARNATIONS as the ones doing things.
There are two Washingtons, Mr.. Noyes
said. Everybody works for the national
capital; all of us have ideas about appro-
priations from Congress for the national
capital: but how few of willing to
find out how our local affairs should be
managed; where sewers should be laid;
how specific streets should be lightev; how
our streets should be improved and where
sidewalks should be constructed? We
should wake up, express our pride and in
terest and do more for our city of Wash
ington, own municipality of Washing
ton our local city. We lack civic pride.
Help in the Greater Washington movement
by waking I'D our civic pride: waking
up our business enterprises; building up
our commerce and developing the CONNER
cial side of Washington. We haven't stirred
ourselves. We all get together for the ma
tional capital, but how seldom for the city
of Washington. The Masonic Temple prep
osition was started fifteen years ago, and 1t
is not built yet There is less cohesion on
the part of the citizens of Washington than
in any other city in the world"
Association Complimented.
The speaker took occasion to compliment
the association on what it had accomplished
in the past, the streets that had been ex-
tended through its constant efforts and the
able fight which it has maintained for bet
ter service on the Brightwood railroad.
Don't be discouraged Mr.. Noyes add
ed. You have taken a good many bites
out of the railroad; take a few more. You
have got to have good service. This sec
ton is a thousand miles ahead of the rail-
road and the railroad Is away behind the
community The remarks on the subject
of the railroad We're loudly applauded.
In speaking on suffrage, Mr. Noyes again
referred to civic pride and to the fact that
a great community is growing up within
the District of Columbia. As the nation
grows, so does the District of Columbia
grow, he pointed out, and it is bound to
grow. Its prosperity and future Is bound
with iron to the prosperity and progress
of the whole United States.
You speak Of a delegate to Congress-"
he said Il do not favor one delegate In
Congress or a municipal government"
After vOfclng the sentiment as declared
by our forefathers, mo taxation without
representation Mr.. Noyes continued:
1T is just as true today as it was then.
1t is just as true for the District of Column
bia as 1t was for the thirteen colonies. We
should have representation in a body that
makes our laws. This District should be
ruled by the national Congress and the
President should be Its mayor. but in the
Congress that passes Its laws, where the
money raised from District taxation Is ex-
pended, the District should be represented
not by a delegate. but by actual representa-
ton in both Senate and House of Represen-
tatves; in the electoral college that chooses
the President of the United States the Dis
trict of Columbia should also be repre-
sented Representation in the Congress of
community in the United States, because
1t Is basic principle of our government
If the people arose in body and demanded
representation they could not be denied"
Enactment Of Proposition.
Mr.. Noyes said that the maximum of the
Districts demands and the minimum of
her acceptance should be the enactment of
this proposition:
THE District of Columbia shall be con-
sidered as a state so far as representation
in Congress and the electoral college is
concerned. and in said District senators
shall be chosen by popular vote"
The speaker expressed his confidence that
some day the people of the District would
unite in demanding such representation,
not as a favor but as fundamental right,
and that when the demand was made In
this spirit the DeODle of the limited States
would grant 1t.
In speaking Of the greater Washington
movement, the organizing of a chamber of
commerce or the merging Of all of the as