Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-06-16
ACCEPTS NOMINATION
Justice Hughes Resigns from
Bench and Issues Statement
Stands for Firm and Unfiinching Main
tainance of All Rights of American
Citizens-Administr Arraigned.

Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who
was nominated for president by the
Republican national convention in Chi
cago Saturday afternoon, accepted
the nomination within an hour of the
time he received notification of the
convention s 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 tho nomination Justice
Hughes broke his long silence in re-
gard to the issues of the day by MAX
ing the following statement:
"Mr. Chairman and delegates:
have not desired the nomination. |
have wished to remain on the bench
But in this critical period in our ma
tional history | 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
dominant thorough going Americanism
with firm protective upbuilding poll
cies essential to our peace and security
and to that call, in this crisis, | can
all that is in me to the service Of our
country. Therefore l accept the nomi-
nation.
81 stand for the firm and unlinch-
ing maintenance Of all the rights of
American citizens on land and sea. I
neither impugn motives nor underesti-
mate difficulties. But it is most re-
grettably true that in our foreign rela-
lions we have suffered intellectually
from the weak and vacillating course
which we have taken with regard to
Mexico-a course lamentably wrong
with regard to both our rights and our
duties. We intcrfered without consis-
tency; and while seeking to dictate
when were were not concerned we ut
terly failed to appreciate and dis,
charge our plain duty to our own cit
liens.
Illuminating Spectacle of Ineptitude.
cat the outset Of the administra,
ton the high responsibilities of
our diplomatic intercourse with
foreign nations were subordinated to q
conception of partisan requirements
and we presented to the world a humil
iating spectacle of ineptitude. Be
lated efforts have not availed to recov
Vi thc ~ unlOi
tunately sacrificed; and brave words
have been stripped of their force bv
indecision.
"Our desire to see our diplomacy
restored 20 its best stndards and ia
have these advanced; to have no sac.
rifces of national interest to partisan
eXpediencies; to have the first ability
of the country always at its command
here and abroad in diplomatic inter
course; to maintain firmly our rights
under international law; insisting
stcadfastly upon all our rights as mu
tual fully performing our interna
tional obligations; and by the clear
correctness and business of our posi-
tion and our manifest ability and dis
position to sustain them to dignity our
place among the nations
~ stand for an Americanism that
knows no Interior purpose, for a pat
riotism that is single and complete
Whether native or naturalized, OF
whatever race or creed, we have but
one country and we do not for an in
slant tolerate any division of allegi
ance.
Believes in Thorough Preparedness.
81 believe in making prompt pro
vision to assure absolutely our nation
al security. believe in preparedness
not only entirely adequate for our de
Tense with respect to numbers anC
equipment in both army and navy, bu
with all thoroughness to the end tina
in each branch of the service Their
may be the most efficiency under tn
most competent administrative heads
"We are devoted to the ideals o
honorable peace. We wish to promot