New-York tribune., 1910-04-26
ACCEPTS TO SERVE PEOPLE
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friends say. he feels that he always has
been the Governor Of all the people lie
has stood as the spokesman OF the peO-
pie. But outside public Office he would
be in an entirely different relation to
them. His work. however well meant.
however efficiently done. would lack the
element it had and the prestige sur
rounding il when he was Governor and
the official spokesman of the people
Still further, there would be new Off
cial leader Of the people to whom they
would be looking. The Governor would
be merely a survival of another period.
trying, his friends said he thought. to
continue to hold some. public credit
without any way of deserving that credit
by genuine public service. And. as the
Governor has made plain on many occa-
sions, that is not his notion OF the way
public credit is obtained, but, on the
contrary. It comes by representing the
people and serving them every day
faithfully When that would be impos-
sible the time had come to retire.
So on every count the Governors $
friends said he was disposed to accept
the honor proffered to him by President
Taft. He realized that IL meant a life
time of honorable and important ser
vice of the kind most agreeable to him.
1t meant an assured livelihood adequate
for his needs and with his old age taken
care of. This honor had come to him
entirely unsought and unexpected, by a
combination of circumstances as remark
able as that which placed him in the
Governors chair 1t looked to him like
the one opportunity of a lifetime To
round out his life in comfort, in an hon
orable place. giving hard. honorable and
important work each day to the people
of his country. Certainly he was not
going to abandon such an opportunity
for the mere opportunity of making
money in a private law office. Every
thing in his life had so shaped him as
to fit him for this work If he was fit for
anything. However far short Of the
ideal qualifications for a judge he felt
his abilities might be, his entire energy
and ability would be given to that very
important work; and under the Circum-
stances he felt he would not be justified
in declining the Presidents appoint
ment
No Active Part in Campaign.
Governor Hughes will give up his work
here in the second week Of october,
probably October II. Lieutenant Gov
ernor Horace White will succeed him.
OF course this means that the Governor
will noe take any active part in the
state campaign. .-.
There is considera BILE difference of
opinion as to whether the Governors re-
tirement will make any difference in the
legislative situation. Those best in
formed seem TO think that it will not
The Republican leaders feel that they
are now in a position where they Will
have Ito go il alone" Responsibility
for all legislative action in this critical
campaign year will be on them. A pro-
gramme Of pretty general compliance
with the Governors recommendations
has been laid out, and in the circum-
stances it seems unlikely that 1t will be
altered now.
AT the same time there is an under
current of sO-caned reaction which is
making itself felt. Progressive Republi-
cans say they have little doubt that with
Hughes definitely out of the state an
effort will be made by some of those
Republicans who have fought him most
consistently TO capture the state oonven-
tom If they gained control of that body
they would be. in position to nominate
their own kind Of a ticket
It may be said. with respect to that
that the Governors friends declare he
feels very confident that the work done
i'm the last four years will stay put
He feels that whatever he has accom-
plished in the way of changes in political
methods and legislative reforms has been
accomplished because the people stood
behind him in his recomme tiOns. And
he has no notion that the people at this
time are going to permit any reaction.
Almost everybody here had a good
word to say for the Governors appoint
ment.
The office of justice of the United
states Supreme Court Is the most exalt-
ed position a lawyer in this country can