The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-04-26
New Yorks Governor Decides to Accept Taft
Appointment to Succeed Late Justice Brewer
Means Governor Will Resign Change
will be Made in October Roosevelt
Will Direct New York Campaign
Appointment Decided Upon at
Recent Cabinet Meeting

Washington, April 26.--Charles E.
Hughes, governor of New York, has
accepted President Taft's offer of an
appointment to the supreme court
bench and his nomination now is be-
fore the sena'e.
This means that Mr.. Hughes will re-
sign from the governorship and that
Horace White of Syracuse will sue
ceed him at Albany. This change,
however, will not take place until the
opening of the fall term of the SUI
preme court early in October, when
Governor Hughes will qualify as a
member of the bench. Consequently
there will be only little more than
two months of White as governor of
the Empire state.
The acceptance of Governor Hughes
of the vacancy caused by the death
of Justice Brewer means further that
the governors personality will be
eliminated from the coming campaign
in New York state and that the di-
i recting head and hand of Theodore
Roosevelt will be behind the republi-
cans there next fall.
1t can be said on high authority
that republican leaders in New York
state are counting on the active sup
port of Colonel Roosevelt to whip the
party organization into shape and to
stand behind it in the coming CAM
paign.
There is good reason to say that as
/ surances already have been received
from the mighty hunter that he will
lend hand to the task. There is talk
here that Collector Loeb, Colonel
iRoosevelt's former secretary, may be
drafted from the collectorship to run
the campaign next fall and it is in
timated even that Mr.. Loeb may be
pushed forward on his record as a
candidate for governor. Nobody here
doubts now that Mr. Roosevelt will
enter actively into the New York state
campaign; that, in fact, he will dom
mate the entire fight.
The acceptance of Governor Hughes
came as a surprise even to President
Taft himself The president made his
offer to Governor Hughes by letter on
April % and it took the governor only
a little more than day to make up
his mind to accept the appointment
The president had had Governor
Hughes in mind for the supreme bench
long before Justice Brewer died. When
the president was in Albany about
the middle of March he urged Gov.
ernor Hughes to run for third term
for chief executive of New York state
and when the governor told him il
was impossible Mr.. Taft suggested the
possibility of an appointment to the
supreme bench. At that time. however,
Governor Hughes said that he did not
feel he could afford to accept such an
appointment.
The president at last Fridays cabi-
net meeting discussed the appointment
of a successor to Justice Brewer and
it was the unanimous opinion of the
presidents advisers that the appoint
ment ought to be offered to Governor
Hughes and on the remote possibility
that he might change his mind. The
president wrote to Mr.. Hughes but as
late as IL o'clock yesterday told sew
eral of his friends he was fearful that
Governor Hughes would not be able to
take the place.
The president was preparing to
leave the White House for Howard uni.
versity at p. M, yesterday when a
letter from Albany dated April "a was
delivered into his hands. 1t was ap-
parent that he was very much pleased
and instead of climbing into his auto
mobile and starting for the university
where Andrew Carnegie and others
were waiting for him, he sat down and
prepared the nomination for imme
diate submission to the senate. Within
an hour after Governor Hughes ac
ceptance was in Mr. Taft's hands il
formally had been presented to the
senate for confirmation and Mr., Taft
was fully half hour late in keeping
his engagement at Howard university