Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-28
PARTY SPOKESMEN
ASK VOTE FOR D. c.
Non-Paritsan Plea Is Made
in Radio Addresses by
CoIIaday and Costello.

Joining in a non-partiSan plea or
behalf of the voteless residents o.
Washington the official spokesman o
the organized Republicans and Demo.
Gratis of the District of Columbia las
night. in two radio addresses over
WRC, urged the Seventy-first Congress:
to approve the proposed amendment tt
the Constitution, which would give
TO Westinghouse representation ir
the House and Senate and the right
to vote for President and Vice Presi-
dent.
The speakers were: Edward F. Cola
day, Republican National Committee
man for the District, former president
OF the Federation Of Citizens Associa-
tons and former president Of the
Board of Trade, and John F. Costello
Democratic National Committeeman fol-
the District, a native of this city
member of the local bar and former
recorder of deeds.
Colladay Says Time Is Ripe.
"a half million people, soon to be a
million, at the very heart of the Nation
is too large a body to be denied par
ticipation in the councils of the
Nation" declared Mr.. Colladay, who
added that the time is now ripe for
granting this boon to the voteless resi-
dents of the Capital.
Let Washington vote for President
IN 1882" was the concluding plea OF
! the Republican National Committee
man. He insisted that there could be
no more fitting celebration of the 2O0th
anniversary of George Washington S
birth than the granting of political
freedom to the inhabitants of the city
which bears his name.
Referring to the Democratic principles
spoken by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew
Jackson and Woodrow Wilson, Mr.. Cos
tello said that his and Mr.. Colladays
appeal for the voteless residents OF
Washington should make the advo-
cacy of suffrage unanimous"
Not Politically Controversial.
Mr.. Costello emphasized the fact that
the question of national representation
for the District is not politically con-
and Democratic parties have recog-
nized the right of the inhabitants OF
Washington to have a voice in party
affairs, he held that they should also
have voice In the election of President
and Vice President and representation
in the Congress which makes their
laws.
The program last night was the
fourth and last of series OF radio
talks on national representation, ad-
dressed to the Seventy-f1rst Congress
and especially to the new members OF
the House and Senate, and arranged
by the Citizens Joint Committee on
National Representation with the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co.
The campaign is preliminary to an
intensive drive next Winter when Con-
gress will meet in regular session and
when the proposed constitutional
amendment to Americanize the resi-
dents of the District will be considered.
Mr.. Colladay's speech in part follows:
1.-THE 100000 Americans of the Dis
trict constitute the only community IN
all the expanse of the continental and
contiguous United Subscriptions,
intelligent, public-spirited, patriotic. OF
ADEQUATE resources-which Is denied
representation in the National Govern
ment.
Amendment Is Simple.
ITO remedy this situation the Citizens
Joint Committee of the District OF
Columbia on National Representation Is
suonsorin9 an amendment to the Con-
stitution providing for national repre-
sentation for the people Of the Distrlct
of Columbia. This amendment is SIM
ple and easily understood, although 1t
has been the subject Of some mfsunoer-
standing.
aThe petition Of the citizens COM
Ynittee TO the Congress OF the Uniteo
States urged the adoption OF the amend
ment upon the principles announced by
the founders Of our Republic, that
taxation without representation
tyrrany'; that governments derive their
lust powers from the consent OF the
governed; and in order that govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people might be an accomplish
ed fact. for all Of the people Of the
United States.
Make Americans Of 100000"
Briefly stated, this amendment en-
ables Congress to give the District OF
Columbia voting representation IN Con-
press and the electoral college, thereby
making it possible TO:
81 Make Americans OF 500 600
people-soon to be 1000, 000-whose
present political prospects are less than
those of aliens elsewhere in America.
% Put into force Though tardily)
the principle of no taxation without
representation at the center OF the
American Republic.
rs. Add representative participation
in Government, now denied. to the duty,
always borne. Of supporting that Gov
eminent by paying taxes and nghting'
- Remove the present stigma,
humiliation and moral and political en-
feeblement resulting from permanent
political impotence OF people more
numerous than the population In each
OF seven American States (l92O census }.
/. IS. Make the heart Of our own Ma
ton safe for democracy, having re
Gently engaged In a world crusade 70
that end.
"6. Make 1t no longer possible to say
that the American Capital City Is the
only National Capital that has no voice
IN its National Government.
Not Local Rule Move.
1.-THE proposed amendment does not
contemplate the admission Of the Dis
irict of Columbia as a sovereign State.
1T does not propose the destruction
of the 10 miles square provision OF the
Constitution or lessen in the slightest
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