The Green Forest tribune., 1916-06-16
HUGHES ACCEPTS
 AND LEAVES BENCH

ashington.-Justice Charles Evans Hughes accepted the Republican nomi- nation for the presidency, and resigned from the Supreme court of the United States. He issued the following state ment:
 ITO the President:
 T hereby resign the office of associ- ate justice of the Supreme court of the United States.
 T am, sir. respectfully yours,
 CHARLES F. HUGHES"
 Hughes statement of the acceptance or the Republican nomination follows: Hon. Warren G. Harding, Chairman
 Republican National Committee. Chi
 cago. III.
 MT. Chairman and Delegates: I have not desired the nomination l have wished to remain on the bench, but in this critical period of our national his tory l recognize that it is your right to summon and my paramount duty to respond. You speak at time of ma tonal exigency, tranScending merely partisan consideration.
 You voice the demand of the dom- lnant thoroughgoing AmericaniSm with firm protective upbuilding policies essential to our peace and security; and to that call in this crisis cannot fail to answer with the pledge of all that Is In me to the service of our country Therefore l accept the nomination.
 T stand for the firm and untlinching maintenance of all the rights of Amer ican citizens on land and sea. I nei- ther impugn motives nor underestimate difficulties.
 But it is more regrettably true that in our foreign relations we have suf- fered incidentally from the weak and Vactllating course which has been talk en as regards MeXico-a course lamen- tably wrong with regard to both our rights and our duties.
 We interfered without consistency and while seeking to dictate when we were not concerned. we utterly failed to appreciate and discharge our plain duty to our citizens.
 At the outset of the administration the high responsibilities of our diplo- matic intercourse with foreign nations were subordinated to conception of partisan requirements, and we present. ed to the world humiliating spectacle of ineptitude.
 The latest efforts have not avaiIed to recover the influence and prestige so unfortunately sacrificed; and brave words have been stripped of their force by indecision.
 ''I desire to see our diplomacy re- stored to its best standards, and to have these advanced; to have no sac rIhces of national interests to partisan eXpediency; 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 our laws; insisting steadfastly upon our rights as neutrals and fully performing our international obliga- tions: and by the clear correctness and justice of our position, and our mani fest ability and disposition to sustain them to dignify our place among the nations.
 T stand for a1 Americanism which knows no ulterior purpose for a pa triotism which 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 stant tolerate any division of ale glance.
 T believe in making prompt provi- sion to assure absolutely our national security
 "l believe in preparedness. not only entirely adequate for our defense with respect to numbers and equipment in both army and navy, but with all thOrOughness to the.end that in each | branch of the service there may be the utmost efficiency under the most corn petent administrative heads
 We are devoted to the ideal of hon. orable pf zee. We wish to promote all | just ss}N.ement of interna tionaI dis putes.KCn view of our abiding ideals | there E no danger of militarism in this | country.
 We have no policy of aggressive ness no lust for te5 itory; no zeal for strife It is in this spirit that we de mand adequate prov3;stGn for national ] A@3gH !Rs :,.t t,l ss ss5s.; :Ss }: : ,on b'e.ast week at the b54 shgtR tRse, 2 ? n '