Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-11
HUGHES ACCEPTS
NOMINATION and
OUTLINES VIEWS
Justice. in Message to Chairman
HardinS. Declares for Foreign
Policy That Will Make
..-. U. S. Respected. l.t..
RESIGNS FROM SUPREME COURT
Denounces Wilson Administration
for It5 Handling Of Inte-na.
tional Affairs.
FOR GENUINE AMERICANIsM

Washington, June 10.-Justice
Hughes late today sent a telegram to
Chairman Harding of the republican
national convention, accepting the
nomination for president.
At the same time it was announced
that the justice had resigned as as
sociate justice of the supreme court
of the United States. .
Washington, D. C., June lO.-Jus-
tice Hughes himself announced to the
lUO or more newspaper men waiting
at his residence his decision to accept.
A 5 o'clock the reporters waiting in
front of the Hughes residence were
invited to come into the drawing room
on the second floor. Mr.. Hughes
himself was at the time in his office in
the basement, debating the message
to Chicago and his resignation to
President Wilson. Fifteen minutes
later he came up the stairs with cop
les of the eagerly awaited message in
his hand
Boys" he began, his face wreathed
in smiles, Il must apologize to you
for my poor typewriting facilities. |
have been able to make copies enough
for the press associations. Mr. Green
is busy on the typewriter making
copies as fast as he can, but it looks
as if it might be dark before he could
make enough for all of you"
The representatives of the press as
sociations were given their copies and
the others newspaper men fingered to
ask what the justice had decided to do.
He told them briefly he had resigned
as justice and had accepted the nomi-
nation. -@
Following is the telegram to Chair
man Harding:
"Mr. Chairman and delegates:
have not desired the nomination.
have wished to remain on the bench.
Gut in this critical period Of our ma
tional history / recognize that it is
your right to summon and that it is
my duty to respond. You speak at a
time of national exigency, transcend
ing merely partisan considerations.
You voice the demand for dominant,
thorough going Americanism with
firm protective upbuilding policies es-
sential to our peace and security; and
to that call in this crisis, | cannot fail
to answer with the pledge of all that
is in me to the service of the country.
Therefore l accept the nomination.
Stands for Americanism.
81 stand for the firm and unAinch-
ing maintenance of all the rights OF
American citizens on land and sea. l
neither impugn motives nor underes-
innate difficulties, but it is most re-
grettably true that in our foreign re-
lations we have suffered incalculably
from the weak and vacillating course
, which has been taken with regard to
MexicC-a course lamentably wrong
with regard to both our rights and
our duties. We 'interfered with our
consistency, and while seeking to die
tate when we were not concerned, we
utterly failed to appreciate and dis
charge our plain duty to our own citk
zens.
American Diplomacy Weak.
AT the outset of the administration
the high responsibilities Of our diplo-
matte intercourse with foreign nations
were subordinated to a conception OF
partisan requirements, and we pre-
scnted to the world humiliating
spectacle of inaptitude. Belated efforts
have not availed to recover the IN
tluence and prestige so unfortunately
sacrificed, and brave words have been
stripped Of their force by indecision'
Our desire to- see our diplomacy
restored to its best standards and to
Eave these advanced, to have no sacrii-
fees OF the national interest to parti-
san expcdiency, to have the first abil-
ity OF the country always at its COM
1nand here and abroad IN diplomatic
intercourse, to maintain firmly our
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