The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-06-15
HUGHES RESIGNS
WHEN NOTIFIED
OF NOMINATION
G. O. P. Nominee for President
Defines Position of Vital Issues
READY FOR THE CAMPAIGN
Colonel Roosevelt Declines to Accept
Nomination on Progressive Ticket
Charles w. Fairbanks Named
for Vice-President.


Hughes, associate justice of the United
States Supreme court, was nominated
for president by practically unani-
nous vote in the Republican conven-
ton, although he persisted to the last
in his policy of silence and refusal to
seek the office, and although it was
not known when he was named wheth-
er he would accept or decline the
honor.
Charles w. Fairbanks of Indiana,
running mate of Roosevelt in the land
slide of 1904, was named for vice
president.
Theodore Roosevelt, refusing to ac-
cept Hughes as the fusion nominee OF
the two parties, was nominated for
president by the Progressive national
convention, which selected as its nom.
I inee for the yice-presidency John NJ.
| Parker of New Orleans.
Quits Bench; Starts Campaign.
Instantly on receipt of Geographic
notice of his nomination Justice
Hughes in Washington sent his resig
nation from the Supreme court to
President Wilson. 1t was very brief
as follows:
ITO the President: | hereby resign
the office of associate justice of the
Supreme court of the United States.
II am, sir, respectfully yours,
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES"
Wilson Accepts.
The resignation was accepted al
most at once by President Wilson
He sent this reply to Justice Hughes
letter:
I Dear Mr.. Hughes: | am in recetpt
of your letter of resignation and fee
constrained to yield to your desire
l, therefore, accept your resignation
as justice of the Supreme court o.
: the United States to take effect a
once. Sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON"
The letter was sent to Justice
Hughes by messenger.
Sends His Acceptance.
/ A few minutes later Justice
! Hughes forwarded to Chicago his ac
ceptance of the Republican nomna
ton for president. At the same tim
he announced that he Endorsed il
every detail the platform adopted b.
his party in Chicago.
Hughes Gives His Creed.
Following is the message Justic
Hughes sent to Chairman Hardin
accepting the Republican nominatio
for president:
MIR. Chairman and Delegates:
have not desired the nomination.
have wished to remain on the bencl
But in this critical period of our n;
tionai history | recognize that it
your right to summon and that it
my paramount duty to respond.
. YOU speak at time of nationi
exigency transforming merely partisa
consideration. You voice the deman
for a dominant, thoroughgoing Anne
, icanism, with firm protective upbuil
, ing policies essential to our peace al
security; and to that call, in tn
, crisis, cannot fail to answer wit
/ the pledge of all that is in me to II
service of our country. Therefore,
accept the nomination.
For Rights Of Americans.
Il stand for the firm and untlinc
ing maintenance of all the rights
American citizens on land and sc
| neither impuSn motives nor unde
estimate difficulties. But it is mo
regrettably true that in our foreign
= lations we have suffered incalculab
from the weak and vacillating cour
which has been taken with regard
Mexico, a course Iamentably wro
y with regard to both our rights and o
= duties.
y I'VE interfered without consistent
d and while seeking to dictate when
l. were not concerned, we utterly fail
n to appreciate and discharge our pls
r duty to our own citizens.
D. AT the outset of the administrati
a the high responsibilities of our dip
n matte intercourse with foreign natio
| WGT6 " - NNtSNp~ANA
v. partisan requirements and present
Ie to the world a humiliating specta
sr OF ineptitude.. g..
ID United States Has Lost Prestige
= "Belated efforts have not ayailed
"A recover the influence and prestige
m unfortunately sacrificed, and br'
y. words have been stripped OF tn
force by INDIGESTION.
IN II desire to see our diplomacy
" stored to its best standards, and
AZ have these advance; to have no sa
y fees of national interests to parts
- expediency; to have the first abb
. of the country always at its comma
here and abroad. In diplomatic In
az course; to maintain firmly our rig
under international law. insist
steadfastiy upon all our rights as 7
trails, and. fully performing our IN
" national obligations: and by the q
cy correctness and justice OF our .
y ton and our manifest ability and