The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-06-23
INSTINCT OF PEOPLE
SOUNDER THAN THE
JUDGMENT OF LEADERS
They Demanded and Received a Mar
of Solid Parts as a Candidate

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f. Hughes as man appeared in the
New York Post few days after he
was nominated for the presidency by
the Republican party which is well
worth reading. The Post is independ-
ent in politics and its viewpoint is
undoubtedly the viewpoint of the great
majority of the Independent voters
throughout the county. The Post
says:
Youthful observers of the pageant
of American politics might we'll be
plucked by the sleeve, by their eld-
ers, and hidden to mark closely the
display of strength shown by Hughes
in the Republican convention. For it
is unlikely that in all their lives they
will witness a political event SO re-
markable. In the history of our par
ties there has been nothing like it,
and in time to come it is improbable
that it will be exactly matched. This
is said fully mindful of the part which
accident had in the putting forward of
Hughes. 1t was due to conditions
which he did not create. His avail
ability lay partly in the extraordinary
plight in which his party found itself
| this year. That called for candidate
could assume so we'll as Hughes All
this is admitted. but it really does not
diminish the wonder of the forging to
the front of a man who was not can
didate, who uttered no word and took
tunes, and who stuck quietly to his
work. A result so surprising and un-
paralleled must have had causes deep
at In he f~hD Nf,
ties. There must have been an attrac-
tive power in the man to whom his
party was thus drawn by kind of
moral gravitation.
An Asset to the Country.
Of an English statesman it was said
after his death, that in manv national
crisit he had been zone of the great
reserve forces" of his country. The
about Charles Hughes. He had been
out Of political life for six years. In
the bitter party strife of that time
he had not been involved. He stood
and worked apart. Yet all the time
his countrymen thought of him as one
whom they might one day call upon to
serve them again in political office.
They looked to him in confidence as
" Il mighty lOlCG Ill lGSClNC. Ills
strength and steadfastness as governor
were not forgotten. The deep impress
of his quality had not been worn
away by the trampling feet of the
crowd that came and went while he
was aloof from it, as becometh a
judge. So when the hour came for his
party to cast about for leader fitted
| for service in great emergency, it
was inevitable that eager eyes should
be turned to Mr. Hughes. The in
stinctive appeal was like that of old:
who knoweth whether thou art come
to the kingdom for such a time as
this?"
Nor can there be doubt that the
bearing of Judge Hughes, during all
these months when he was talked OF
for the presidency, has commended
him TO the judgment of his country
men. They like man who shows
that he is captain of his. own soul. And
even tickle democracy knows how to
admire one who maps out course for
himself which he believes right, and
then cleaves to it with an inflexibility
which nothing can shake. There. was
more in this than the exhibition by
Mr.. Hughes of judicial propriety. In
it his fellow citizens saw the tenacious
anchoring of his will So that their
verdict on him was:
Firm is the man. and set be-
yond the cast
of Fortunes game.
And people saw wisdom as we'll as
strength and poise in the attitude of
Hughes during all the pre-convention
clamors land would complete the quo
tation:
-. Whose falcon soul sits fast
And not intends her high sa-
gaciouS tour
Or ere the quarry sighted.
Hughes the Man.
One distinction must be fixed in
mind. 1t was not Hughes the judge
who was voted for at Chicago, but
Hughes the man-Hughes as an asset
of his party and of the whole country.
No man can point to a single decision,