Evening star., 1914-07-15
newman OPPOSITION
IS IN PART PERSONAL
Mr.. Heisken Says Commissioner Is
Now Unacceptable to
District.
Declares Public Lacks Confidence in
Present Head Of the Local
Government.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
In approving your valuable editorial
in the Saturdays issue Of your paper
entitled The Caraway Bin'' must dis
sent from your statement that the at
tack upon the validity of Mr.. Newman's s
title Is not an attack upon him per-
sonally.
admit that in the filing of the original
Proceedings no attack was made upon
Mr.. Newman's personal character. But
his attempt to enforce himself and his
citizenship upon the people of the Dis
trict. his persistent attempt to retain his
office and maintain his asserted citizen
ship in the face Of his own showing in
court and his conviction by a jury of his
peers. and his seeming lack Of that deli
cacy Of feeling which should long since
have suggested to him the proper, dig
niied course to pursue, have Justly
brought upon him the condemnation Of
80 per cent of the citizens of this District
Lacks Public Confidence.
You again state that the District, with
the best Of personal feelings toward him
(Newman), is not disposed to surrender
one OF Its few home rule safeguards, ~
etc. The Star, with its accustomed cour-
tesy, Is too considerate Of the gentleman
who would, through means of dilatory
legal proceedings, further attempt to en-
force his services upon an unwilling pub
lie and discharge the duties of president
of the board Of Commissioners for the
District Of Columbia, to which, agreeable
to the decision in his case, he never was
eligible from the standpoint of citizen.
ship His open advocacy of the abolition
OF the ''half-and-half' principle proyid-
Ing for the maintenance of the District
unoer the provision Of the organic act
establishing the very form of govern-
ment under which Mr.. Newman is SO
eager to serve renders him truly nom
acceptable to the citizens of this District.
L assert that Mr.. Newman has never
had the confidence of the public, and his
persistence in holding on to the Office
TO which he was erroneously and illegal
ly appointed deprives him of the re-
spect OF the citizens of this community
and renders impossible any harmonious
intercourse ,,n,l Sc between the citizens and this
usurper Gin the language of the jury of
the high Office of Commissioner for the
District of Columbia.
Amazed at Democrats.
As Maryland democrat with a legal
voting residence in the state of Mary
land. yet with a business residence of
thirty-two years in the city of Wash
ington. District Of Columbia, 1 am
| amazed at the propositions emanating
from a democratic Congress and a demo-
cratic administration with respect to the
city of Washington, District of Columbia
We are naturally warranted in assum-
ing that southerners at least have not
forgotten the taste of carpet-bag gov
ernment following our civil war. Yet it
has remained for a democratic adminis-
tration. which / helped elect to Office
to inf1ict such rule upon the citizens of
this District and for a gentleman from
Arkansas to propose a measure to legal
ize carpet-bag government within the
city of Washington, District of Colum-
bia. Home rule Is supposed to be a
cardinal principle of democracy, but. it
seems to be revered in the breach rath-
er than in the observance by my demo-
cratic friends when it comes to a ques-
ton of fair treatment in anfording us a
measure of home rule by a bipartisan
District government, which was estab-
lished by a republican administration at
a time when the iniquities of carpet-bas
rule were being denounced. and justly
so by every true southerner.
Suggests Poll Of D. c.
If your valuable paper could poll the
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