Evening star., 1932-05-12
DEMOCRATS TO ASK
VOTE FOR DISTRICT
Delegation to Chicago viii
Seek to Put Party on Record
for Franchise.

The District delegation to the Demo-
cratic National Convention will seek
to put the party on record in favor
of enfranchising the voteless residents
of the Capital, and at the same time
viii call the attention of the conven-
ton to the inequitable fiscal scheme
now followed by Congress in apportion-
ing expenses for the maintenance OF
the Capital by the District and Fed
eral governments.
This announcement was made this
morning by John B. Colpoys, chairman
of the State Democratic Central Com
mittee for the District, in connection
with the closing of the lists for those
who will seek to go to the national
convention as delegates, subject to the
primaries next Wednesday.
Nineteen Are Candidates.
Seventeen men and two women are
seeking the places of six delegates and
six alternates to the convention and
Colpoys said that from the list Of
entrants it was certain that the com
plexion" Of the delegation would be
pro-RooSevelt and wet. The views Of
almost all Of those who have entered
the primary are known to be wet, but
there is one outstanding dry in the
group Daniel c. Roper. who headed the
Internal Revenue Bureau during the
Wilson administration.
The lists for the primary were closed
last night at the headquarters Of the
Central Committee in the Home Life
Building. In addition to those filing
for delegates, the incumbent National
Committeeman, John F. Costello, and
the National Committeewoman, Mrs.
Borden Hartman, also filed for re-
election.
Program Repeated.
In seeking to put the Democratic
party on record IN favor of giving Dis
trict residents q vote in the electoral
college and representation in the Sem
ate and House, the District Democratic
delegation will be repeating program
It has followed for the last two conven-
tions, Colpoys said. He said that
hitherto the District delegation had
found sympathy with this plea, but that
the members of Congress in attendance
at the convention had blocked favorable
action.
He said the convention will be told
that the District people fulhn all the
obligations of citizenship without any
of its rights. "Our slogan this year will
be no taxation without representation, !"
he said. Cofpoys also said that the
convention win be told that Congress
has departed without right from the So
40 base of fiscal relations and is trying
to saddle the whole burden on the tax
payers. He said it would be pointed out
that the situation has reached the point
where Government employees drawing
small pay and having small equities in
their homes are faced with their loss
because Of taxation.
To Work for Repeal.
The District delegation, according to
Colpoys, also will favor repeal Of the
eighteenth amendment and, pending
that. modification of the VolStead act
to permit 275 beer and light wines in
the interest Of temperance and to i'm
prove economic conditions. Those who
are seeking TO go as delegates or alter
mates to the convention follow:
George A. Garrett, George p. Mar
shall, Col Arthur O'Brien. treasurer of
the National Democratic Victory Fund;
Mrs. Henry Leonard, Mr.. Colpoys, G. r.
Allen, Norman B. Landreau, Walter
Dedenegre. A. Mitchell Palmer, Attor-
ney General under President Wilson;
Charles c. Carlin, former Representa-
tive from Virginia: Fred Schow, Robert
T. Scott, F. M. McConihe. James VIII
liam Bryan, Robert w woolley, former
member of the Interstate Commerce
Commission: James ". Boyer, Watson
3. Miller, Mr.. Roper and Mrs. Lester
j. Pollock. -..-.
For the % places on the Central
Committee, only 10 men filed and 16
of these are incl1mbents. The new men
seeking places on the committee are
William Keneally, Frank w Cahill and
Mr.. Landreau. The Central Committee
will meet Monday night TO complete
details for the primary.