The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-06-17
HOW HUGHES WAS NAMED.
Whitman Lauded Record of Can
didate and Criticised Present
Administration.

In placing Charles Evans Hughes In
nomination for president Governor
Charles S. Whitman of New York said:
We are assembled here to name the
standard bearer of the great Republican
party. We are here to name a man who
will substitute trained craftsmanship for
apprentice politics. We are here to select
the next president of these United States.
The national horizon is dark and trou-
bled. From afar the lurid flashes of a
world war remind us of our own citizens
killed and our own flag insulted. To the
south we see anarchy encroaching on our
borders. AT Washington the president
watches and waits. Yet we must not
think the task before us an easy one.
The country is still at peace, and the
maintenance of peace will be plausibly
claimed by the Democratic party.
A form of prosperity is in the land, and
few perhaps recognize its temporary ma
ture or pause to analyze its causes. The
great war in Europe created unusual and
temporary markets which stayed for the
time the disaster otherwise sure to result
from a Democratic tariff.
If the devout prayers of all mankind
be the frightful holocaust of
war will end as quickly as 1t began, and
the products of European labor will pour
in upon us. undeterred by a tariff barrier
A Nation "Proud to Fight"
We must choose a man so great that he
may bring home to the people a realiza-
ton of the artificial character of our tenn
porary prosperity. We must choose a
man so great that he may be able to lead
US safely through the perils that will
follow peace. We must choose a man so
great that he may meet as a true Ameri-
can the supreme national issues OF the
hour and the future.
Our party is rich in men imbued with
h 4r,,A Cpirff ~ A ~ riO picTn nI1F ma RI
has ever believed that for the mainte-
nance of these principles the nation should
be ready, prepared and, should necessity
call. proud to fight
We bring to you today the name of a
man trained in battle for the truth, tried
and found faithful in the administration
of great public trusts, sterling in his Re-
publicanism, free from the animosities en-
gendered by fractional strife, his private
life above suspicion, his public life with
out a flaw, a great lawyer, an effective
campaigner, an able executive, a mature
statesman, a learned jurist. He, above
all others, combines the essential quail
fcations of a true leader in tins crisis of
the party and of the nation.
His searching, fearless and epoch max
ing investigation into the management
of our great insurance companies gave
the people their first glimpse of his rare
power, courage and idealism. When he
was first nominated for governor of the
Empire State so great was his hold upon
the people that he was victorious, al
though every other candidate on the Re-
publican ticket went down to defeat. His
nomination mere will carry with it abso-
lutte certainty of success in New York
state.
Hughes on Preparedness.
In his speeches he has shown his sound
ness upon the great question of national
preparedness. He said:
1--WE are devoted to the interests of
peace and we cherish nc policy of agrees
sion. The maintenance of our ideals is our
surest protection. 1t is our confident aim
to live in friendship with all nations and
to realize the aims of a free government
free from the interruptions of strife and
the wastes of war. 1t is entirely consist
ent with these aims and it is our duty to
make adequate provision for our defense
and to maintain the efficiency of our army
and navy. And this | favor"
No one couIu better express the funda-
mental doctrine which underlies our ma
tional defense. His principles are sound,
Republican and patriotic. 1 need not
dwell upon his recent career. OF his most
recent patriotic services on the most au-
gust of the worlds tribunals his magnif-
cent utterances from the bench are the
best monument.
We have seen him the man of action,
the champion of the people, the idol of
the electorate, the faithful public servant.
the profound thinker on national issues.
The great state of New York, through
the lips of its governor. offers to the peo-
pie and the party, to the voters of the
party-no, not only to them, to the great
nation-her son, her noblest and her best.
/ nominate as a Republican candidate for
president of the United States Charles
Evans hughes