Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-20
Jurist Placed ON Supreme Court
Bench by President Is Not
Receptive and Turns Back
on Proposition.
BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.

CHICAGO, June 20.-If you must
bet on a dark horse bet on Hadley.
The convention yesterday furnished a
deal of pointless. innocuous disorder
which, beginning nowhere, over moth
Ing in particular. formed no serious
finish. The proceedings resembled
somewhat a dog chasing its tail, in
that there was much apparent mo-
ton with little real progress.
The big thing was the word from
Washington that King Williams
limbs are weary-the great Taft is
growing tired. politically. Ever since
the New Jersey primaries Taft has
had not alone enough, but too much.
He told Tawney and Mckinley in
take the place of his own-Lincoln.
Hughes. Fairbanks-the lame of any
conservative would do, but some
name they must get.
They explained the difficulty which
surely would attend upon any at
tempt to transfer to another the Taft
delegates. 1t was hard as 1t stood
to hold them for him, Taft.
Were they to open the cage door
to shift them to Hughes or one of the
Others fully 100 would escape to
Roosevelt. The last thing said to
Taft by Mckinley and Tawney as
they left>for Chicago was hat they
must and would use his name as long
as it was necessary to hold his
strength together.
Taft Urges Hughes's Name.
Now that Root Is in the chair and
the certainty OF q November Repub-
llcan defeat is O surely outlined
than ever against the skies of party
Taft has renewed his declaration that
he has gone as far as he will. The
wires have been kept busy about the
business since 10 o'clock this morn
ing. They are still busy at 5 o'clock
this evening.
Taft urges Hughes as a most likely
name. Hughes is hanging back. He
doesn't like November's outlook any
better than does Taft. Barnes has
been dealing with Hughes and in
sisting that he make the run.
1t is in vain that Barnes talks-per
wire-of his (Hughes's) party duty
and the virtuous propriety Of be-
coming a martyr. Martyrdom In no
wise appeals to Hughes. The stake
and curling flames have for him no
attractions. He is for clinging closer
to that ~judgeship which he has
found, even as the shadow.o of a great
rock in the weary land.
Barnes and the others, among the
latter Deneen, who is working over
time to keep the Roosevelt men On
the Illinois delegation from assisting
johnson, of California, and Finn, OF
PENNSYLVANIA, in laying the bed
plates of a Roosevelt bolt, insist that
should worst come to worst ever
without that hang-back ~jurist's con-
sent they will send Hughes to the
front.
1t is curious to reflect that TAFT,
who put Hughes on the United states
Supreme Court bench to get him out
Of his (Taft's) nomination way, now
is seeking frantically to coax MIN
from the bench to run in his place.
Such is the irony of political events
In their last embodiment.
Fairbanks Is willing.
Fairbanks Is willing to take the
nomination, but the nomination isn't
willing to take Fairbanks. Fairbanks
figures thai although he be defeated
at the polls he would be in line for
the 1916 nomination. -Four years is
a long shot and a limb in the a
but. hit or miss, he is ready to try 1t.
There is scant chance, however. of
Fairbanks being selected. The dele
gates, almost without exception, turn
the cold shoulder at any and every
mention of the name.
La Toilette might have stood a
show. But to have done SO he must
have had the solid Roosevelt back
ing. The conservatives. Barnes and
the Murray Cranes, never have had
any political use for La Toilette. He
was nothing if not a radical.
Roosevelt support he threw away
Monday when he sent the red-faceo
Houser to the convention to say that
La Follett had neither lot nor part
in the MoGovern candidacy for tenn
porary chairman. In so doing La Fol
lette may have injured McGovern.
That he wounded to the death his
own last chance of a nomination
there is no doubt. The Roosevelt
feeling from that moment has favored
ANYBODY. even Taft himself, rather
than La Toilette.
La Toilette should have listened to
cochem. who, square of brow as of
shoulder, plays politics as we'll as he
formerly played football.