The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-06-13
WISONANSWERSH HUGHES
CONTINUED from rage one.)

The Suffragsts are WORKING
among the delegates today. Con-
gressionaI Union speakers are ad-
dressing street crowds.
Bryan reached ST. Louis today
to report the convention for two
or three of Americas biggest
newspapers.
Bryan said that he has a new
treaty to propose to the other
Democratic Ieaders-a pact be-
tween the Democrats and Pro-
grcssives to induce most of the
Progressives to support the Demo-
cratic ticket next November.
One leader said that the Demo.
cratic platform probably will give
the Suffragists no stronger en-
dorsement than did the Republican
platform. The leaders fear the
effect of suffrage in the Southern
States, where the negro woman
vote would be the problem.
Senator Newlands has suggest
ed that the women urge nation
wide enfranchisement for whites
only.
The three being considered for
the craftsmanship of the national
committee today are Senator
Salisbury, of Delaware; Homer
Cummings, of Connecticut; and
Col. e. M. House.
William j. Bryan does not expect to
precipitate any fight on the party plat
form. That was the information
brought here by a close friend OF the
Nebraskan, who added that Mr.. Bryan
might not, after all, go before the reso-
buttons committee and that he would
not make any effort to obtain a proxy
that would seat him on the convention
floor
Senator William j. Stone. who is to
DE chairman of the resolutions commit
tee, issued statement calling the Re-
publican platform drafted in Chicago a
remarkable Illumination" with one-half
the legislation it demanded already en-
acted and the other half now being
worked out by the Democratic party.
Senator Stone said that he consider
ed Mr. Hughes a man of ability and
but looked upon his nomina-
ton while he was on the bench as
full of menace and danger
MY objection to the nomination or
Mr.. Hughes" said the senator's state
ment, lies in the fact that / regard lit
as bad in every way, even vicious, for
4 great political party, hard pressed
and on its uppers, to invade the Su-
creme Court of the United States and
take down from that bench one of its
justices 10 make him a party candidate
for political office to meet and serve
a party eXigency. The experiment is
full of menace and danger. Hereafter
it is more than probable that men APP
pointed to the Supreme Court Will be-
gin to regard it not as an honorable
and final goal Of their ambition, but
as stepping stone to what they will,
as Mr.. Hughes does, regard as politi-
cal advancement, beyond the judicial
position they hold.
Undermines Great Court.
I'm that view of things, il will follow
that the decisions of Judges Of thai
great tribunal will become more or
less the subject of suspicion. People
will begin to surmise, whether deci-
siUns on questions of wide or general
interest have behind them some SIMS
ter political design. The tendency
will be to undermine public confidence
in that great court-a thing that would
be full of evil consequences if not disas-
trous. Some state constitutions. am
told. contain provisions which make
the Judges of their supreme courts III
eligible to a political office during the
torn for which they are elected or ap-
pointed. | am inclined to the opinion
that il would be wise so to amend the
of the United States as to
make a Justice of the Supreme Court IN
eligible to any political office while a
member of that court or for period o.
five years following his retirement OF
separation therefrom.'
The senator criticised the Progress
i've platform and called attention to the
fact that it contains declaration thai
the issue was lone of men," by whlcf
he said. the Progressives meant Roose
Welt. Now. he said, Roosevelt "suikS
in his tent at Oyster Bay while his
loyaI following waits uncertain and dis
pirited."
..Will he respond and lead them. sing
ing Onward. Christian Soldiers? con
cIuded the senator's statement, "or VII
he shrink before the uplifted swords 0
the old guard and thus leave his read,