Evening star., 1924-06-26
SENATORS BAR D. {.
SUFFRAGE PLANKS
King and Jones, on Platform
Committee, Blamed Espe.
ciaIIy for Failure.
CLEVELAND REPETITION
Local Men Decide Sadly They Must
Wait Until Nation Knows
Needs Better.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

!
NEW YORK, June 26.-The pleas for
a suffrage plank and for a national
| representation plank for the District
or Columbia have both been turne d
down by the subcommittee drafting
the democratic national platform for
adoption by the national convention
now In session here. After brief
discussion in committee they were
'pigeonholed" in the subcommittee
The subcommittee will report its
draft of the platform to the full COM
mittee today. Unless the full COM
mittee should decide to revive tho
Districts plank. it is doomed to fail
! ure. There is little likelihood thar
the full committee will do so. if was
said today.
AS was the case at the Cleveland
convention of the Republican marry
the District has again lost out. it an,
pears, in it's plea for some voice in
Its own government.
In both the Cleveland convention
and here the failure of the District TO
obtain the recognition sought is at
tributed to the dominating places and
me me dominating voices of United
resolutions, which framed the plat
forms. Too many members of the
Senate are determined not to grant
the right of a voice and vote in
| their own government to the people
of the District.
Fall on Deaf Ears.
The demands of the people of the
District for the right to elect mem
bers of the House and of the Senate.
and to elect members of the electoral
college-to participate in the govern
ment which makes all the laws for
the District and levies taxes and ap-
! propriates the money raised in the
District, which do not seem unreason-
able demands for American citizens to
make-fall on deaf ears. Members of
| TONED to think of the District as a
ward of the government. to be treat
| ed as they may think fit. In Cleve-
! land the case of the District was
| prejudgtd by Senators Smoot of Utah,
! Watson of Indiana, Gooding of Idaho
and others. Here in New York the
senator's who have opposed the pro-
posal are Senators King of Utah and
Jones of New Mexico, particularly.
stu! other senator's on the subcom-
way of Arkansas and Walsh of Massa-
| chusetts.
The representatives of the District
| here, including the Democratic ma
| tional committeeman, John F. CosteI-
10; Frank Sprigg Perry, the District s
| representative on the resolutions
| committee, and Col. Robert N. Harper,
| representing the Joint Citizens COM
| mittee and the Federation of Citizens
! Associations, have worked hard for
a District plank. They are con-
| vinced, however, that the campaign
| of education must continue before it
milton for the District to which it is
entitled.
Information Spreading.
There is no doubt that fnformat ton
regardi the District and its hum
dreds of thousands of disenfran-
chised citizens is becoming more and
more widely distributed to the coun-
try generally through the efforts
which have been and are being made
to obtain national representation, it
was said here today.
One of the District delegation re-
marked, however, that it is scarcely
necessary for explorers to go to the
south seas to look for white
Indians"
You can find them right in the
Capital of the nation, judging from
the manner in which they are re-
garded by Congress-wards of the
nation just as the red Indians have
been considered for so many years =
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