The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-02-11
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington. Feb. 10 tspccia11-As-
sociate Justice Charles j.. Hughes will
not accept the nomination for presi
dent If IL Is rendered him by the Re
publican national convention. This Is
going TO be made SO plain before the
convention assemblies that no one will
be talking OF Hughes as a possibility
at hat time. Hughes win not be CON
sidered any more than he was in 1912.
OF course there are many admirers
OF Mr.. Hughes who viii demand "A
more authoritative statement than this
concerning his attitude. / do not know
how or when such a statement viii be
made, but Ii will be of such n charac-
ter as TO bear out the assertion that
the justice has meant everything he
has said previously regarding the nom
nation for the presidency. The Re
publicans must 20 elsewhere than TO
the supreme court for a candidate.
Makes Greater Speculation.
Most Republicans have come to re-
gard Hughes as a sheet anchor. lie
was the man TO whom they all turned
as a last resort. I'VE can win with
Hughes" has been the assertion Of ey-
cry Republican, although no n was
personally anxious to have Hughes
nominated. With Hughes out the ques-
ton arises, "Who is the MANI"
This opens up a wide vista Of spec
ulation. There are many possibilities,
many a%spirants, many men who are
willing. You can't 20 half 4 block
where you meet Republican politicians
and mention names without finding
opposition TO every man who has yet
been proposed.
1t is an open field. and almost any
man who Is of presidential size has a
chance, and some OF those who are not
of presidential size will be among those
mentioned.
Right of Misgovernment.
Some good ideas were Sent adrift
during the discussion Of the Philippine
bill in the senate. One of them Is con
tanned in the short speech OF Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts when he said:
There is the view that "A people
have a right to misgovern themselves
In their WI way. 1t may be misgoy-
eminent according to our ideas. but
they have a right to misgoyern them
selves in their own way. | quite ac-
cede to that theory. / think we have
a right to misgovern ourselves, and we
occasionally do SO quite badly"
Senator Lodge did not believe In
granting the Filipinos independence.
but he believed that no halfway meas
ures should be taken.
Travelling Expense Graft.
Minority Leader Mann took Il shot at
the travelling expense graft which has
been found in different departments.
1t is doubtful whether anything will
be done about it. All administrations.
all parties. everybody who could pos
sibly do so, has used the travelling ex-
pense allowances to their advantage.
After Fraudulent Advertising.
In several instances efforts are being
made TO prevent fraudulent adyertis-
ing. One good way, which would be
effective, would be TO add a paragraph
to the postotice appropriation bill de
nying second class mail privileges TO
papers which carry fraudulent adyer-
Using. Many publishers refuse TO ac-
cept fraudulent advertising now, and
all would have to do so If the mails
We're to be denied them.
Uncle Joe In Action.
/ really believe that members of con
gress II the occupants of the gal
leries would rather see Uncle Joe Can
non In action than to listen to what
he says. His left arm Is still the prin-
cipal feature of the exhibition. Save
for just a little touch of age he does
not differ much from the Cannon of
twenty-five years ago.
Why Be Consistent?
OF course the fellow who insists upon
being consistent is sure to be caught
out on a limb some day. And so why
criticise those suffragists who are writ
ing to Senator Wadsworth of New
York? Mrs. Wadsworth is one of the
vigorous ants and appears in every
movement against suffrage. The sen
ator gets letters from ~suffragists ask
ing him why he does not exercise con
troll over his wife and compel her to
stop fighting suffrage.
Clark For Flood Control.
Speaker Clark took the initiative in
having a committee to look after flood
control legislation in the house. He
believes that by control of the floods
In this country immense damages can
be averted, that real conservation can
be established and that in the end
there will be reclaimed immense tracts
of 0verfiowed lands which can be oc-
cupied by people seeking homes. Clark
favored the irrigation bill many years
ago bpeaIISp he Thought III would lead