The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-15
HUGHES RESIGNS
 TOENTERB|CRACE
nenounces Facilitating Foreign Pol icy of Democrats and Declares for Maintenance of All Rights
 Messages Were Brief.

Messages Wtfe brIel.
 Washington, June 5 i0A Charles Evans Hughes stepped down today from the supreme court bench, again becoming a private citizen and accepting the republican nom- nation for president of the United States.
 Tn a telegram ringing with de- nunciation of the administration foreign policy and declaring for a dominant, thorogoing American ism. he gave his decision to Chair man Harding of the republican na- tional convention and broke the long silence which has kept the leaders of the party in the dark as to his attitude toward the issues of the day.
 T have not desired the nomina.- tion,n said the telegram. T had wished to remain on the bench. But in this critical period of our na- tional history, I realize it is your right to summon. and it is my par amount duty to respond
 Within an hour after Chairman Harding had notified him of his nomination. Mr. Hughes had ac- eepted the call His resignation, a scant two line letter without a su- perfuOus word was on it's way to the White House from the Hughes home, before the nominee had dis patched the message of acceptance and called the waiting newspaper men into his study to tell them of his decision
 Acceptance Also Brief.
 President Wilson accepted the resignation in reply almost as brief. Apparently MT Hughes let ter was framed so that the presi- dent might be saved the embarrass- fnent of expressing regret or mak- ing more than a formal reply
 T hereby resign the office of as sociate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States he wrote. To which the president re- piled: T am in receipt of your let ter of resignation and feel con- strained to yield to your desire. l therefore accept your resignation as justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to take effect at once
 When copies of both the tele- grams to Chicago and the letter of resignation had been made public, Mir Hughes left his home for his customary afternoon walk. Soon after his return Lawrence Green, his private secretary told him of Colonel Roosevelt's conditional de- clination of the progressive nomin- ation Mir. Hughes sent word to in- quirers that he had nothing to say regarding it. His friends, however were 0utspoken in their satisfac- tion over Colonel Roosevelt's atti- tude. No plans have. been made by . the nominee for the sumner. The family practically dismantlcd the Sixteenth street residence here with the intention of returning to Maine for the hot months. but those plans have heen abandoned
 Whether MT, Hughes will go on the stump or whom he will select to manage his campaign are questions that have not been given any con- sideration so fan.
 Announces Stand.
 In his telegram of acceptance, Mir Hughes announced bls stand for the firm and unflinching mainten- ance of the rights of American citi- zens on land and sea-: for "an Americanism that knows no utter for purpose; for a patriotism that IS single and complete: and for preparedness not only entirely ad- equate for our defense with respect to numbers and equipment in both army and navy. but with all thor ness, to the end that in each branch of the service there may be the ut most efficiency under the most com petent administrative heads,
 What he thinks of the adminis- tration's foreign policy was told. in part, as follows:
 T neither impucn motives nor underestimate the difficulties. But it is most regrettably true that in our foreign relations We have suf- fered incidentally from the weak and vaclflating course which has been taken with regard to Mexico a course lamentably wrong with re- gards to both our rights and our duties.
 At the outset of the administra- tion the high responsibilities of our diplomatic intercourse with fore ign nations were suhordinated to a conception of partisan requirements and we presented to the world a humiliating spectacle of inaptitude. Related efforts have not availed to recover the influence and prestige thus unfortunately sacrificed. and brave words have been stripped of their force by indecision.
 LOCAL DRUGGIST TALKS.