The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-12
NOMINATION
ACCEPTABLE
JusticeHughes Resigns from
Supreme Bench and
Issues Statement
THOROUGH-GOING
AMERICANISM FOR HIM

Stands for Firm and Undinching Main
tainance of All Rights of American
acknowledgements Administration
Arraigned. ......
Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who
was nominated for president by the |
Republican national convention in Chi |
cage Saturday afternoon as reported |
in The Reforner of that day, accepted
the nomination within an hour of the
time he received notification of the
convention 5 action, at the same time
sending to President Wilson his resig
nation from the United States supreme
bench, The resignation was promptly
accepted.
In accepting the nomination Justice
/ Hughes broke his long silence III re
gard to the issues Of the day by max
! ing the following statements:
! Mr.. Chairman and delegates: l
have not desired the nomination. l
/ have wished to remain on the bench.
/ But in this critical period in our ma
tional history l recognize that it Is
YOUR right to summon and that it is
my paramount duty to respond. You
speak at a time of national exigency,
transcending merely partisan consider
ations. You voice the demand for q
dominant thorough-going Americanism
with firm protective upbuilding poll
cics essential to our peace and security
and to that call, in this crisis, l can
not fail to answer with the pledge of
all that is in me to the service of our
country. Therefore / accept the nomi-
nation.
II stand for the firm and unnincb-
ing maintenance of all the rights of
American citizens on land and sea.
/ neither impugn motives nor underesti
| mate difficulties. But it is most re
! grcttablv true that in our foreign rela
| tious we have suffered intellectually
| from the weak and vaciliatiug coUrs,
/ which we have taken with regard t
/ Mexico-a course lamentably wrong
H with regard to both our rights and on
II Duties We interfcred without consis
Il tcucy; and while seeking to dictat
II when were were not concerned we ut
terlv failed to appreciate and dis
charge our plain duty to our own cit
III liens.
| Illuminating Spectacle of Ineptitude.
II AT the outset of the administra
U ton the high responsibilities o
- our Diplomatic intercourse wit
a foreign nations were suboIdinated to
/ conception of partisan requirement
/ and we presented to the world a humi
iating spectacle Of iueptitude. BE
lated efforts have not availed to TecoN
er the influence and prestige so unfol
4 tunately sacrificed; and brave word
have been stripped of their force b
j INDIGESTION.
- ''Ou desire to see our diplomac
restored 20 its best standards and t
have these advanced; to have no sac
9. rifces of national interest TO partisa
w eNpedieucics; to have the first abiGt
sr Of the country always at its comman
.. here and abroad in diplomatic inte1
y course; to maintain firmly our right
: under international law; insistin
X, steadfastlv upon all our rights as mi
s, tual fully performing our intern;
- tional obligations; and by the clea
TO correctness and business Of our pos
&c tion and our manifest ability ana di
- position to sustain them to dignity OF
10 place among the nations
81 stand for an Americanism tn;
N. knows no Interior purpose, for a pa
n, riotism that is single and complet
sH Whether native or naturalized,
- whatever race or creed, we have bl
&c, one country and we do not for an i
10 slant tolerate any division of alle2
20: ance.
Ice Believes in Thorough Preparedness.
d.. ''I believe in making prompt pr