The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-03-28
WASHINGTON LETTER
Washington City,
March oath, 1913

Washington City,
March oath, 1913.
who live off the Government and
Of people who live off of people who
i've off the Government.
1t is estimated that there is more
snobbery to the square mile in Wash
5ngton than there is anywhere else
an this or any other earth. There
$ a crowd here that thinks social
Washington is the hub of the uni
verse. 1t lives to feed official big
Jugs, ambassadors, cabinet members,
presidents, ct al and to shine by
'heir reflected glory. And, thanks
Ne, Woodrow Wilson has given this
bunch a terrific swat by cutting out
al the society flub dub and buckling
Down to the hard task of running
he Government. And mark the pre-
Aiction: he is going to be by long
odds the best president this country
las seen since the war
| am praying that Wilson will
am praying that he will slam the
t}oor in the face of the crowd here
hat is always pulling the ear of
Congress and the leg of Uncle Sam.
What the country wants of him is
that he shall be the president of
ahe United States and not the mayor
af this city, which is so insignificant
IN a commercial or industrial way
that if it were towed out in the ocean
and sunk it would never he missed.
s.
You know Congress is the town
ouncil of Washington and if you
save not caught the idea you can
lead the following list of the Alder
mamie Board: Senator John Walter
smith, of Maryland, Chairman; Sen
tor Atlee Pomerene, of Ohio; SEN
@tor Marcus A. Smith, of Arizona;
John W. Kern, of Indiana; Senator
henry f. Hollis, of New Hampshire;
senator Ollie James, of Kentucky;
Senator Willard Salisbury, of Del
ware; Senator Thomas S. Martin, of
Virginia; Senator William p. Dilling-
&am, of Vermont; Senator Wesley
L. Jones, of Washington; Senator
tohn d. Works, of California; Sem
tor William S. Kenyon, of Iowa;
Senator Albert B. Fall, of New Mex
jco and Senator Henry F. Lippitt, of
Rhode Island
The above list of United States
senator's constitutes the Committee
IF the Senate on the District of Col
nmbia Look back over the list and
see where they are from. These SEN
"tors are diagdonged at all the time
about the District 1t does seem a
hardship that a State should send a
man to Washington to be a Senator
and then have him turned into a
town councilman.
Il
What can be done about it?
Nothing.
There is clamor for the ballot in
Washington but that would produce
IN intolerable condition. AS | have
written before, about half the popu-
tation of the city is black
They would not settle the negro
question here as we settle it down
home. Consequently the only way to
get good government for Washington
and to keep control in the hands of
intelligent white men is to keep
things as they are
So we must all submit and let our
senators and Congressman be Alder
men and COuncilmen for the town.
II comes high but it can't be helped
II is done on the same principal as
that by which the legislature of Geor-
gia names the town council for Oar
zen. which has such a large negro
majority. The country realizes that
the negro would make unsatisfact-
Dry conditions in Washington and
that is why the ballot will not be
granted to the Washingtonians.
Otherwise Congress would be glad to
get rid of the burden.
JOSIAH CARTER.