Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1930, Page 4

TINGOLN CALLED ¢ D.C.OTE FREND Representative Kelly, in Ra- | dio Talk, Lauds Justice | of Martyr. \_(Continued From Third Page.) ‘Wwith politics ‘short and swest, like an old woman's dance,’ had the right to hecome a candidate for public office and to win or lose by the decision of &' majority of the voters. He counted that a fundamental right znd aiso a Pprime privilege. “That js not the right nor the grivi- lege of the American citizens who have their homes in this great Washington community. No matter how interested heé may be in public affairs: no matter hew great his zeal to participate di- rectly in government, no resident of ‘Washington can appeal to his neighbors for their suffrage in an election to a public office. He does not have the piivilege of being elected or deieated in a fair fight. “He is a disinherited citizen, an exile from the commonwealth built on sélf-government. *Such a condition of lfllk’s“'} not exist in Lincoln’s day. Then Y —-eiti- éns of Washington had the right of the ballot. What shafts of logic Lin- caln would have leveled against such a denial of his own fundamental prin- ciple. Once more he would have quoted that statement in the Bill of Rights d by the American colcaists: “The foundation of all civil government is: a right in the people to participare in- their legislative councils’ Once more he would have thundered his own dy- namic declaration, ‘I say that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.’ . ~*Here is the broad sweep of Lincoln's : ‘Allow all the governed an cqual_voice in the government; that and that only is self-government. I in- sist that if there is anything that it is the duty of the people never to inrust to hands other thnnu their drmn. !«l:lt thing s the preservation and perpetu- ity of their- own liberties and institu- tions.’ “Could there be more unusual condi- tions than those presented by a Civil War which threatened the destruction of the Nation? Yet elections were held in regular course. Responding to a serenade after the election of 1864, Lincoln said: “e long been a grave question vernment, not too strong for the il of ‘:lt;s‘. le, can be =trong enough te m: in' great emergencies. On this point .2 present rebellion brought our Gov- ~<onment to a severe test, and & - «Zntial election, occurring in regular course during the rebellion, added not a liftle to the strain. But the election ‘was a necessity. We have free government without elections, and if the rebellion eould force us to forego or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us. “If even a great fratricidal strife was not sufficient grounds icin citizens of shall we say that unusual features in the relation of Washington to the Na- tion demand denial of the right of self- government? “Of course, it is true that the Na- tional Government has exclusive juris- diction over the District of Columbia. the framers of the Constitution never intended to the Capital City of all the rights of lar Gov- emment. For 70 years after the estab- lishment of the seat of government in the District of Columbia the people of District exergised the right of the franchise. “Now, withoutdisturbing the rela- tionship between Nation and Capital, without the of 2’ would inflict no American Injug principle. It would bring America in line ‘with all ihe 'i"hau{fmfwx?ng gefl;&;fl’ld ‘which grant political i in tlnmu"h\ dduu hies “In the discussion of this question there is always heard hehlnd-tge-hcnd allusion to Negro domination. This is the tion of the District is Negro -nm’;emmup is decreasing each year. To say that one Negro voter can dominate three whites 1s an insult to the white population. To say that one Negro out of four w?le :Txdm the 'm‘]" community unfit for elf-government is an undeserved insult to every Negro citizen, Would Extend Suffrage. “Lincoln said: T 2m opposed to the lmitation or lm.enh’l;J of the right of suffrage. I am in favor of its extension or enlargement. I want to lift men up—to broaden rather than to contract their privileges.’ Even in 1864, in the midst of the war and Jriting to the Governor of Louisiana, Lincoln suggested that intelligent Ne- 2roes should have a voice in govern- et “That was a startling suggestion for that time and place. But the Lincoin who declared in 1836 for the vote for ‘women would certainly denounce with all his vigor the attempt of men, a hundred vears later, to rob three white citizens of the supreme right of citi- zenship in order to keep one black eiti- 7en from having his fair share in rep- Tesentation. | “My friends, disfranchised Washing- ton challenges the Lincoln ideal of gov- ernment. We have given the vote m the hands of the women and it was a worthy action. We have declared the American Indians to be citizens after <centuries as wards of the Nation and it ‘was just and American that we should €o so. Aliens who come here from other lands may in five years become voting ‘Washington and who have never been able to express their opinion as to government in the only way such an opinion ever really counts in America—with the pencil in the voting booth on the day of election. “If Abraham Lincoln came to Wash- ington tonigkt, you mav be sure he ‘would feel sorrow and chagrin, rather than pride to see the matchless temple erected in his honor, while the citizens all around are disinherited. The Great Heart who said ‘I put the man above the dollar’ would also say ‘I put the vote above the marble,” “The highest honor America can pay Lincoln is in standing steadfastly for his noble aims. ‘We must make this a Jand of liberty in fact as well as in name,' said Lincoln. Every effort in that direction would please him more than the sculptured busts and painted likenesses which now adorn the city and its bulldings. “We can best show our reverence for ISPEAKER PLEADS FORVOTE NI, 5.5 Paul Lesh Says Citizens Here Should Have Representation Forced Upon Them. R A plea for national representation for the District, whether the citizebs of Washington want it or not, was made at & luncheon meeting yesterday of the Exchange Club by Paul Lesh, former pmlu“:“emumewmmnww o 5 “If Washingtonians are so indifferent to those fundamental principles on which this Government was founded as |not to care whether they vote, then national representation should be crammed down their throats by the rfit :l the country,” the speaker de- clared. Explains Representation. Mr. Lesh first told of what the term "nls:’uonll representation” moans. He aaid: “We don't want to take (- 7-vern- ment cf the Capital away from the Nation, but to make the Capital a part of the Nation. “All other capitals of the world are in all respects sovereign portions of their respective countries, so we see A A NEW SHIPMENT OF eVEREADY Triple Screen-Grid All-Electric 8-Tube Lincoln by making his creed our deed, his principle our performance, his faith our fulfillment. “That means the American right of representation in government for those who live in Was| City, the Amer- icanization of the of Columblia. ‘Let us have faith that right makes might’ and with malice toward none but charity for all proceed to the accom- plishment of a purpose which is truly Lincolnlike.” Largest Power Plant. , Germany (#).—With 0‘.000 kilowatt Model 1. Triple Screen Grid — Latest THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1930. that the situation here is unusual, and such must be justified,” he ued. “The Voteless Mflon'nf\ne“ never intended WHen Totnaca, for a Tefritory Inton 25 & State future growth. As a result the founders did not make provision for the District | to have a voice In the National Gov- ernment. Outpays Fifteen States. “ “Yet today the District of Golumbia hes & larger populstion than any of tes. Washington last year paid more Pederal taxes than each of 15 States, while these 15 States had 79 to say what be made of this y. none. ““The fact that the District would be entitled by its population to only two members of the House of Representa- tives, and that these would have com- paratively small voice in the govern- ment of the Capital, is of little moment. When we use this argument we are dealing with false principles. We have & right to representation, and we should be given ft. “The only way in which Congress will ever be influenced to give it to us is by their constituents. The District itself is impotent.” Printing -Exposition. RICHMOND, Va. (#).—Two centuries of printing in Virginia will be cele- brated at an exposition here in March. The first newspaper in the State was | started in 1730 at Willlamsburg. NEARBY CITIZENS RENEW VOTE AID :| 1928 Stand for District Rep-| resentation Reaffirmed by Montgomery Body. Nearby Maryland citizenry, repre- sented in the Montgomery County Civic Federation, again came to the su) of its neighbors in the District of Co- Jumbia in their efforts to obtain na- tional representation in the Senate and House by a constitutional amendrment ‘when the citizens’ body Monday night approved a Teport of its committee on legislation and legal action made by J. Bond Smith, chairman. The federation reaffirmed its action of 1928 in In- dorsing the amendment, and referred the matter to the Interfederation Con- ference, composed of delegates from the civic federations of the District, Mont- gomery, Prince Georges and Atlington Counties. “The committee,” said the report, “considered the resolution introduced at the last meeting by Delegate Burton T. Doyle of the Rockville Pike Citizens' Association favoring voting representa- tion in the national Government for residents of the District of Columbia. | Qarover W. Ayers, executive | s wo( the Ten Miles Square Club of the of Columbia, opposing suffrage for the District of Columbia, and which the committee returns here- with to the nmtdln‘l secretary. - - committee also conside) the fact oat Xhe foderation ab it meeting on March 12, 1928, approved the report and recommendal of this committee that the following resolution adopted by the Interfederation Conference on Janu- ary 30, 1928, be approved: “‘Resolved by the Inter-Federation Conference, That we reafirm our sup- port of the pi amendment to the Constitution of the United States em- powering the cong:u to grant to the citizens of the trict of Columbia national representation in the Senate and House of Representatives and the electoral college, and to give to the citizens of the District of Columbia a status before the Federal courts, as pro- vided in H. J. R.'18'and 8. J. R. 8. “ ‘Resolved further, That the officers of this conference are hereby authorized and directed to support this sition before the judiciary commil “of the House of Representatives and the Sen- ate of the United States.’ “Although the federation has . thus already acted on the subject matter and the question has been and is now being dealt with by the Inter-Federation Con- ference, to which this federation sends delegates, this committee recommends the reaffirmance at this time by the federation of its previous action by the approval of the resolution.as amended herewith by striking out the words ‘and direct’ after the word ‘authorize’ in the "-st two paragraphs. 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