Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-05-10
PROTESTING AGAINST HUGHES

FhOIESIlNG AGA1NOI hUGHES
 formal protest against the confirmation of Governor Charles E. Hughes of New York as ar associate justice of the United States supreme court has been filed with the senate judiciary committee, by the American Anti-Trust League
 The officials of the league are: M l.. Lock wood, national president H. B. Martin, national secretary; and c. T. Bride, national treasurer The national executive committee of the league is composed Of these men: H. L. Lockwood chairman, Oklahoma; H. J. Schulteis, vice chair man, District of Columbia; H. B. Martin, sec retary New York; F. s. Monnett, Ohio; w. B. Fleming Illinois; F.. J. Van Vorhis, Indiana; w T. LaFollette, South Dakota; James Barrett Georgia; William Prentiss, Illinois; c. T. Bride District of Columbia; William M. Mor- gan, Idaho; P. E. Dove, Pennsylvania
 The protest reads in part as follows:
 ''The undersigned respectfully petitions the members of the judiciary committee and the senate of the United States to proceed with especial deliberation and caution in the matter of confirming the appointment of Charles E. Hughes of New York as justice of the SUI preme court of the United States.
 ''Our reason for so doing is that we desire to protest most emphatically against the conirma- tion of said Charles K. Hughes, on the ground that in several respects his appointment to the supreme court is highly improper and unsafe for the best interests and welfare of the people of the United States.
 ''It is now universally recognized by citizens of every state and of every calling that grave crisis exists in the conflict of interests between the great lawless combinations known as trusts on the one side and the people of these United States on the other
 ''We protest against the confirmation of Charles E. Hughes for the reason that no one familiar with Mr. Hughes public record can believe that his mental Jennings are other than friendly to the purposes and plans of the men at the head of these great trust conspiracies against the people, which are now so menacing to this country
 ''It is matter of public record that many of the men of the greatest power at the heads of these trusts and who control the unlawful monopoGes in the necessaries of life as we'll as those persons who control the transportation trusts and the money trusts were his active sup pOrters and large contributors to the campaign funds used to elect MT. Hughes as governor of New York.
 Among those trust officials who contributed most heavily to elect their friend, Mr. Hughes to the governorship of New York and who are undoubtedly now favoring his appointment to the supreme court bench, were men prominent in the control of the tobacco trust the Standard Oil trust, the coal trust and the railroad trust who are now on trial for their offenses against the laws of the United States and their cases will be among the very first which Governor Hughes will be called to decide if he were con firmed by and with the advice and consent of l the senate to sit as justice of the supreme court of the United States. We are convinced that thorough investigation will disclose the fact that he is a man of the type above de- scribed, and that his preconceived views, to which he holds most tenaciousIy on public oues- tions such as the income tax the two-cent fare laws, the propriety of accepting large amounts of money for campaign purposes from trust of fcials whose cases are now pending show that much beside his legal learning and amiabIe per sonality should be taken into consideration
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