Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-12

mo4N1IA L LIN l1N1S
this time that they might easily have
been written at Sycamore Hill.
More than that. Mr. Hughes was
chosen as the Colonel has protested a
presidential candidate should be
chosen-by the delegates and not by
the leaders. He made no fight for
support. Not for a moment did he
drag the United States Supreme Court
in the mire of politics. He was drafted
to make the run against his own de-
sires. If ever an Office sought a man,
this Is the occasion. A careful study
of his career discloses that his state
ment on Saturday is merely concise
review of convictions he has had for
many years and which he is on record
as having expressed on numerous oc-
casions Not one of the views therein
so vigorously set forth is new witA
Justice Hughes, and all of them are in
strict accord with the Roosevelt
tenets.
While yet too close to the Chicago
outburst to properly appraise the real
attitude of the Progressives, it is be-
lieved that a large majority of those
who have been the consistent and
enthusiastic supporters of the Colonel
will accept his view of the situation
and line up behind the Hughes
standard.
1t was not an easy matter to adjust
the differences between the radicals on
both sides, but the feeling of those
who are in close touch with the wider
and more important matters of party
control is that substantial reunion has
been achieved in the nomination of
Hughes and Fairbanks
Justice Hughes had nothing to do
with the deplorabIe division of 1912,
and this fact renders abortive and i'm
possible any opposition to him upon
the ground that he is representative
in any sense of the interests, political
and otherwise, which have always
been denounced by the more violent
supporters of the Colonel. In short,
the selection of the ticket, after care
full and conscientious deliberation has
met with the approval of men of all
everywhere. 1t is disappoint-
ing outcome Cor the Democratic bosses, |
who had hoped the party disruption
might go on. They realize now that a
of the policies of the
Wilson regime will be terminated |
within the next few months
OF course, as in every great national |
there will be those theorists
who will decline to accept the judg-
ment of the majority and find instead, |
an outlet for their activities under
some special banner of their own
choosing. This has always been so,
but the comparatively few leaders who !
still persist in a third party movement |
will find themselves in a woeful |
when the battle alignment is
made
Justice Hughes and his colleague,
Mr.. Fairbanks. represent the safe and |
sane policies of the American people |
without regard to party. They are not
the selections of bosses or groups of .
individuals banded together for the
promotion of their own selfish in
terests. They meet the expectations of |
a great political party and suggest the
and the remuneration of |
the nation to the principles of Lincoln
and the great train of statesmen who
have followed him.
1t is altogether a happy solution of
a most difficult party problem. The
work of the Chicago convention marks
a new epoch in the history of the Re-
publican party and it will have the
approval of a vast majority of the
voters. A brighter day has dawned
for the American people.