Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-31
HUGHES MAY BE
"A MAN OF DESTINv
Shelved by Taft in 1910 y. :
comes Hope Of His Partv 7 e
l916-History Repeatin1s' I
Itself

ana the unexpected alwaya ha,,.. i''al
impossible to profit by the tsaas,ah ,.s,'s =
experience II he had chosen to ot
GUS he might have said that ma. - seFl,
pront by the teachings of experiansa 2 (
cause they fail to learn the ,e.sa ss ps
before them, rather than becaus. - ~
contradiction of the ancient epirrs,rs 'ns
There is no class of men r,o-.
vious to the lessons of the mast ,A.- ...'p.H
professional politicians. The world ~
for them with the deal in which ths~
engaged at the moment and Il end. :, ~
tnat zeal Is contaminated Not on. 4
thousand OF them understands env.S,.s
ABOUT the psychology of popular ~.
ment. THE public be damned. -, s'nu'
attending to this thing" ia whs. "
think when they do not say II. IN. '.s ~
public refuses to be damned, for tba s.s Wv
son that 1t denies the Jurisdiction =, ~
politicians and disputes their pows.
enforce their verdict, and Il has AZ
concerning way of taking things int :.
own hands. 'V ~
All the signs this year indicate N,
history Is to repeat itself in ChIeaso =.
spite of the efforts of designing MOI =
plan events to suit themselves NV
have forgotten the 1880 camnaior
the campaign of 1900.
How Garfield Was Nominated
The professional politicians, who h.a
reaped rich harvest curing the e,,h.
years OF Grant, had planned To rara-.
mate him. They had almost enough d.,.
gates pledged to carry the conyentIor
The opposition was determined ,h.,
whoever was nominated It should not 4,
Grant. But they were not arreed =.
any candidate. The OHIO delegation vo,
committed to John Sherman and sbor
man had strong support in other Stat.
Garfield one of the ablest men in Con.
gress, headed the Ohio delegation ana
put Sherman in nomination. He was M,
a candidate, though he received fsw
votes In the early balloting. He bad
fought loyalty for Sherman without an.
tagonizing the other candidates AS bal.
lot after ballot was taken without res,it
the impression gained strength that N,
was the man on whom all could aRrea
and pretty soon there was a stampede n
him from all the States not conmIttes
irrevocably to Grant. Garfield was finally
nominated because agreement could bs
reached on no one else.
There is more than remote possibility
that something like this may happen in
Chicago.
1t Is more likely, however, that the
broader sweep of history, beginning with
the 1900 convention and eliminating no
one knows when, will begin to be drplI.
Gated this year. Coionei Roosevelt was
nominated for the Vice Presidency IN
the national convention in this city to lay
him on shelf and get him out OF the
way of Senator Plat, the New York
boss. Mckinley was azsassinated Rooss-
velt entered the White House and the
man whom the bosses rejected becams
a boss in his own right bigger than any
who had tried to send him into oblivion.
Taft Put Hughes On the Shelf
President Taft set out in 1910i to get
rid Of Hughes as a possible rival by ap-
pointing him to the Supreme Court bench.
Hughes had received a disconcertingly
large support for the presidential nom,
ination in 1908, and If Taft were to be
renominated Hughes must be elm
mated. st4't S
If Hughes had been marked by Destiny
for the Republican nomination this year
events could not have conspired better to
make him available. He went on the
bench two years before the great split In
the party in 1912. 1t was possible for
him to keep aloof from the bitter fac
tional fight which lost the Presidency to
the Republicans. He did not take sides.
His sympathy with many of the Progress
i've doctrines was manifested while he was
Governor of New York, and the regularity
of his Republicanism is disputed by no
one. 1t would have been improper foF
him to take any active part in that cam
paign, and there was no occasion for him
to express himself on the questions IN.
volved in 1t. 1t was easy for him to avoid
offending either the Progressiyes or the
standpatters, though II Is doubtful II ne
attempted to steer middle course 10
merely devoted himself to the business ~
hand, which was not political. He thereby
became the one distinguished Republican
of presidential size on whom both nae
tlons could unite without feeling tnAs
either was forcing concessions from inc
other. The plot to make him preaiaen'
tial impossibility resulted in makins nun
the man to whom thousands OF Progress
ives and standpat Republicans are looAins
with hope as the great harmonizef VIZ
can lead the party to victory
The Office Likes to Seek the Man
These circumstances have eonsp''s1
with his temperamental peculiartes
make him peculiarly available. He Is pe'
seeking the oftice and has not sougns =
and has announced more than onef r
he Is not a candidate and would prefer y
remain on the bench. where the "efs !,
congeniaI and in line with his proIeHs'0.,-'
training. This attitude is pleasing y ~
great mass of Americans who haFs :
ways believed that the Presidency = -
great an office for the seeking OF Is.
man. They have fondness Tor ues...., -
for themselves the man whom thss -
10 draft into their service IN . 49,
emergency, and the greater the relul.-'' i
of the man the greater is their os'"s
force him to do their bidding