DEMOCRATS TURN DOWN PLANKS TO GIVE PEOPLE OF D.C. VOICE IN GOVERNMENT
New York City (JFK+50) On June 26, 1924, The Evening Star reports the subcommittee drafting the Democratic national platform have turned down "plans for a suffrage plank and for a national representation plank for the District of Columbia."
G. Gould Lincoln writes...
"Unless the full committee should decide to revive the District's plank, it is doomed to failure."
Lincoln adds...
"Too many members of the Senate are determined not to grant the right of a voice and a vote in their own government to the people of the District."
SOURCE
"Senators Bar D.C. Suffrage Planks," by G. Gould Lincoln, The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., June 26, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
