New Britain herald., 1916-05-27
WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to tho Herald Office.
Wilson And Hughes.
(NeW York World ).

There would be one mighty public | advantage in the nomination of Jus t1ce Hughes as the Republican can d1date for president against MT Will son. During the 1916 presidential campaign, at least, the American peo- pie would have to think with tn cir | brains and not with their lungs.
 It has been twenty years since the country did any straig ghtfOrWard po- l1tical thinking. For sixteen years under the Bryan leadership the Demo- cratic party was given over to words and emotion. The republican, party has had corresponding period of Roosevelt brag and bluff and buster. Roosevelt and Bryan are takers, not thinkers. Neither of them ever un- dcrstood any public issue that ne ad- Vocated or opposed. Neither of them ever did or ever could appeal to the sober sense and sober judgment of the American people,
 That is something MT. Wilson can do. It is something Justice Hughes can do. It is something the Amer lcan people need, and need impera- lively. democracy that is not cap i able of hard close reasoning about ! it's public affairs is in bad way, and the loose, haphazard political opinions of the average American are much greater menace to the country than is any foreign Power.
 Mr. Wilson has done a great deal to re-establish the habit of political thinking; but the job will never be
 finished until both parties are under a leadership that is both sane and in- telligent.
 Of soon coming. Where the rank and file has had a chance to express itself it has shown a decided preference for mind over noise. But the final proof must be found at Chicago.
 Roosevelt's Boy Scouts are now making their last drive against the Hughes candidacy. They have a cam paign fund that Mark Hanna would have contemplated with respect, if not with envy. They are rounding up all the former office holders who held place under Roosevelt and are not likely to get back into place under anybody else. Another band"wagon demonstration is to be made of the Roosevelt popularity in the hope that if the republican nomination does go to Justice Hughes it will go i'll a way that makes acceptance impossible. Then will come RooseVelt's opportun- ity to do business with the Old Guard Perhaps the Boy Scouts will suc- ceed, Without principles or issues or a recognized leader, the republican party is deficient in imagination and infirm of purpose. Too many third class men are in control of it's affairs and the interests back of it are so sordid that they can see nothing be- yond the almighty dollar. To them Hughes is an unsafe proposition, little more trustworthy that Wilson. Tho man does his own thinking and gives his own orders, and that is supposed to be bad for the organization. It Is also supposed to be bad for busi- ness. There is nothing that business IS so suspicious of as brains in gov ernment, which explains the Wall Street attitude toward both Wilson and Hughes.
 Yet we shall continue to think that what the United States requires most of all is not less brains but more brains in it's political leadership, and that is why the World, which intends to support President Wilson, would welcome the nomination of Justice Hughes by the republican convention.