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| WASHINGTON. June Is.
If you had been a Democratic boss
| for years in a city where nobody had
a vote and no Democrat could get a
! job, and If you had kept on all these
years being a Democrat and telling
everybody you were a Democrat and
helping TO nominate Democratic can
didates for whom you couldn't vote.
and if after all the years it happened
| there was a chance to get some jobs
| for Democrats and then the man who
| had the giving out of the jobs, and
who himself was a Democrat, gave
the Jobs to people whom you didn't
know and didn't like, without even
| taking the trouble to find out if they
were Democrats or not; and If, when
you went to see the man who was
giving out the jobs, you were told
you couldn't see him until next week,
when you knew all the time that
probably by then the jobs would be
gone, wouldn't it make you mad?
Wilson Getting Sin Bad."
Whether he knows 1t or not, Pres
ident Wilson is getting in very bad
with a lot of District of Columbia
Democrats. This may not sound Sc
rious when read in New Jersey, and
the chances are that the President
| doesn't think it's serious, but if you
doubt that it is serious, ask the Dis
trict of Columbia Democrats. They'll
tell you.
There's a funny side to politics
everywhere, but the more you know
about District of Columbia politics
the funnier 1t is. You see, the only
people out of the 100000 odd black
and white residents of the city of
Washington who have a vote are
those who go back to some of the
States at every election to vote. There
are no primaries or elections in the
District of Columbia either for mu-
nicipal or national officers. The cit
izen of the district has no voice in
government He can't vote for Pres
ident, he has no representative in
Congress, and all the city officials
are appointed by the President, by
the judges of the district courts or
somebody else who is elected or APP
pointed by somebody else.
Red Hot Politics, Too.
But that doesn't mean there isn't
any politics here; not by a whole lot,
it doesn't. Politics in the District is
naturally a little different in its
methods and operations than else
where, but it's red-hot politics, just
the same The fact that they can't
vote discourages probably nine
tenths, or more, of the citizens here
from getting wildly excited in cam
paigns, but the one-tenth, or less,
who do get excited, become suffi-
GENTLY so to make up for those who
don't.
Although the people of the District
can't vote for President, they are
allowed to send delegates to national
conventions to help nominate Presi-
Dental candidates. These delegates
are, it is true, almost self chosen,
from the fact that there are no real
primaries, but they take themselves
just as seriously as though they were
real delegates. If you don't think so,
go to the next national convention,
If there is another, which there may
not be, and watch them perform.
Expectation and Reality.
Just now District of Columbia
Democrats, that is the few men in
I'the District who call themselves
Democrats and work at the job are
wildly excited over the appointment
of two commissioners to administer
the government of this city. There
are three commissioners who run the
business end of the city government
but one of them is an army engineer.
The other two are named by the
,, President and confirmed by the Sen
ate. And of course, the local Demo-
Gratis have been expecting right along
that the President, as a Democrat,
would consult with them about the
men who should be chosen, and that
after they were chosen, they would
probably be the kind of men who
would see to it that lot of Re-
pubIicans who have been holding city
jobs were put out of Office and their
places filled with good Democrats.
To make the Presidents job easy
| for him, the leaders in the local
Democratic organization, months ago
made up list of eligibles for COM
missionerships, and offered the Presi-
| dent his choice. 1t was big list
| too, with twenty or more names on
| it, of bankers, real estate men, bust
| ness men, contractors, builders, law
yers, newspaper men and others, and
all Democrats. There are two fac
tions in the Democratic party in the
District, and there were representa-.
| tives of both factions on the list.
His Choice Not on List.
| There has been much impatience
over the delay of the President In
naming the two commissioners, but a
couple of days ago he announced that
he had about made up his mind who