Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
WASHINGTON'S
POPULATION IS
SEEKING VOTE
NoncOnformists of Capital Are
Growing Tired of Being Con-
troIIed by Congress.
By SIDNEY EsPEY.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2O.-Once
more an effort IS ba!ng made by the
District Of Columbtans to stand from
under the disadvanta ges which accrue
to the system Of government which
rules tEem-the system which has
Won for the Capital of the United
States the fascinating sobriquet Of
Wa shington-the kept city"
The plaything Of the nation, Wash,
ingtOn lives up to that sobrquet. y
city Of flashing joyousness, always
dressed as though for a festival IN
the choicest garb the world has to
offer, exploited for its singular at
traCtiveness and made the subject Of
the adulatiOn of people from afar off.
the city for all this exterior aspect Of
leyity yet knows the secret heart Of
the nation and is the familiar of the
inner soul Of the center of the ma
tional life.
For this splendid municipality,
which delights to swish and rustic
its skirts in the faces of the more
workaday cities of the nation, lives
Ike the lilies of the field. Not on
the sweat of its brow does it earn is
bread, but by the kindly favor uf
Congress, Of the United Itates as a
whole.
1t lives. moves and has it's being
almost solely at the nod and beck #
that Congress for Congress shall
have power to exercise exclusive leg
islation in all cases whatsoever over
such District says that subllmated
oracle, the Constitution Of the United
States The District of Columbia and
Washington have been bought AM
paid for.
Seek Changed Order.
Now, there are certain non con-
form.sts I'm Washington, certain Purl-
taniCal persons who long have agi-
tated "A changed order They desire
ardently that Washington he fire I'd
from her slavery" For, you see. IN
exchange for the purple and fine lin
en-, the snarklin" jewels and the riCn
gold which Congress lavishes up n
its cherished one, the city has given
up its civic honor, as some say,
To divorce metaphor, why then b q
cause Congress apprOpriates money
for half Of 1.-THE upkeep and general
improvement and garniture of the
National Capital, the citizens have
given up their right to vote, or rather
have had Il taken away from them.
The District Of COlumbians are a dis
| franChised people, and it is Congress
which presides, Delphic, over the des-
TIMES of the Capital.
,
care free Of the trials and embar-
easements that veX city which
must nay its own way.
But 10 return to these stern visa gee
/ Puritans who frown upon such prac-
/ tees. Lord MaCaulay was pleased "a
| say in his time OF the Puritans tn i {
while assuming themselves the mien
{ of rulers Of the earth, equals of ever :
man, they bllthely set their feet upon
| the neck Of a king. Wherefore, it is
| to be gathered that these WashingtJl
| Puritans are Of much the same strina
| Want Franchise Right.
! Declining to abet those who favor
| the continued attitude of cringi1g
which Washington must necessa rily
affect in its relations to Congress,
| these strait-laced ones are arguing
! nightly for the restoration of their
! franchise in order that they may have
| a voice not only in the ordering II
| their own affairs, but also in the
| larger ones of the nation.
| 1t is perhaps les majestic to 50
| address Congress. Congress. being
| Democratic, does not openly take that
| attitude. Some members of the great
| council. however, pointing to the vast
| expenditure of money made on Wash
ington's behalf, cry out ingratitude.