Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-20
HUGHES DENIES
BREAKING WITH
THE PRESIDENT
Resents Report of Trouble Over
Not Being Consulted on
Haight Appointment.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator
Hughes, of New Jersey, today denied
a report that he would break with
President Wilson because THOMAS >,
Haight, of Hudson county, mad peeh
selected by the President to fill the
vacancy on the United States District
| Court bench In New Jersey.
ct backed my candidate for the
| judgeship to the best of my ability,
said Senator Hughes, "and told the
President yesterday why thought ne
ought to have been selected. But the
| final responsibility for selecting the
| Judge rested with the President after
all, and If he decided on Mr.. Haight
on the advice of the Encouragement
and Secretary of War Garrison, l
am not going to quarrel with him."
Senator MARITIME was present with
| Senator Hughes at the White House
Yesterday and took part in the discus
sion of New Jersey affairs. Senator
MARITIME had his own candidate for the
district judgeship, James Connolly. OF
Elizabeth. There is no doubt that
when Mr.. Haight's nomination is sent
and MARITIME will vote for confirma-
ton.
On Bowling Terms.
Senators MARITIME and Hughes are
on bowling terms; they have even a
speaking acquaintance with each
other. This statement Is made to
set at rest the rumor going around
that they do not speak as they pass
by. The Star correspondent saw them
together. They were as near to-
gether as two men could be, who
were walking in opposite directions
in a twelye-foot foyer.
Senator Hughes remarked-t Is
immaterial what he said-but the
fact that he did say something in
tended for his senior colleagues ears,
should set at rest,'if not for all time,
at least for the present, the rumor
that they are not on speaking terms.
Those close to the junior Senator
say that he feels that one has been
put across'S in the Haight matter
Senator Hughes favored the APP
pointment of ]. Warren Davis. SEN
ator MARITIME originally favored Judge
James Connolly, of Union. lie dld
not insist upon him, however, when
it was delicately broken to him that
Haight was the favored one with the
powers that be,
1t is known that the President
wished to keep aloof from any en-
tanglement over the distribution OF
patronage
sew. Many personal appeals have
been made to him in behalf of vari-
Gus aspirants for different offices and
he has invariably shunted the re-
sponsibility to other shoulders.
In the matter of the federal judge
ship he maintained the attitude he has
assumed from the beginning, declining
to commit himself to one man or an
other, The other day he told Attorney
General McReynolds to settle the mat
ter by picking out the man best htted
for the place as federal judge. Inc
attorney-general, knowing that Sec
rotary of War Garrison had had an
extensive acquaintance among the
LAWYERS of New Jersey by virtue of
his previous office of chancellor, called
in Mr.. Garrison and submitted the
list of names to him. It was as the
result of that conference that Mr..
Haight was selected to be named for
o, X. on Haight.
From other sources it is known that
Naval officer Otto Wittpenn ano
Chairman Grosscup of the New Jer-
sew State Democratic Committee, also
took part in extolling the merits OF
Mr.. Haight, and as their views coin
cided with those of the attorney
general, all went well for Mr.. Haight
Senator MARITIME entered no Wig
orous protest, beyond saying that
while he would have liked to see
Judge Connolly obtain the Office he
was content to let it go to the one
that the powers that be judged to be
the better man for Judge.
Senator Hughes was not quite SO
complaisant over the outcome. He
made it known<in no uncertain terms
that he felt that his cards had not
been put in the deck when they were
shuffled for the last time. OF course
being a United States senator, he did
not use those words, but the words he
did employ were sufficiently strong
and to the point to make his hearers
understand that he was not altogether
delighted.