The Colorado statesman., 1916-06-17
HUGHES ACCEPTS
RESIGNS AS ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
OF U. S. SUPREME COURT
AND STATES POLICIES.
Favors Preparedness Military, In.
dustrial and Naval, and Makes
Americanism the Chief Is
sue in the 1916 Cam
paign.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

western newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, June 12-Making his
letter brief and strictly formal, as a
courtesy, in order that the President
might not feel compelled to express
regrets, Justice Hughes, ten minutes
after he had been notified of his
nomination, wrote and sent by mes
senger to the White House his resig-
nation, as follows:
June 10, 1916-To the President:
/ hereby resign the office of associ-
ate justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States. l am, sir, respect
fully yours.
CHARLES e. HUGHES"
The reply, also in one sentence,
was sent as follows:
Dear Mr. Justice Hughes: ! am
In receipt of your letter of resigna-
tion and feel constrained to yield to
your desire, /, therefore, accept your
resignation as justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, to take eff
feet at once. Sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON"
Mr.. Hughes telegram to Chairman
Harding who had notified him of his
nomination and extended congratula
tions, was as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Delegates:
have not desired the nomination.
have wished to remain on the bench.
But in this critical period of our
national history / recognize that it
is your right to summon, and that it
is my paramount duty to respond.
You speak at a time of national
exigency, transcending merely parti-
san considerations. You voice the
demand for a dominant, thoroughgo-
ing Americanism, with firm protec-
tive 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 success of the country.
Therefore l accept the nomination.
Il stand for the firm and un-
flinching maintenance of all the
rights of American citizens on land
and sea. l neither impugn motives
nor underestimate difficulties. But
it is most regrettably true in our
foreign relations we have suffered
intellectually from the weak and vacil-
lating course which has been taken
with regard to Mexico-of course Ia
ihthtdpiy Nloh5 WIN iNsooiu both "
our rights and our duties. We in
terfered without consistency, and,
while seeking to dictate when we
were not concerned, we utterly failed
to appreciate and discharge our plain
duty to our own citizens.
"At the outset of the adminiStra-
tion the high responsibilities of our
diplomatic intercourse with foreign
nations were subordinated to a con-
ception of partisan requirements,
and we presented to the world a hui
initiating spectacle of inaptitude.
Belated efforts have not availed to
recover the influence and prestige so
unfortunately sacrificed, and brave
words have been stripped of their
force by indecision.
Il desire to see our diplomacy re-
stored to its best standards and to
have these advanced; to have no sac
rifice of the national interest to par
tisan eXpediencies; to have the first
ability of the country always at its
command here and abroad in diplo-
matte intercourse; to maintain firm
ly our rights under international
law; insisting steadfastly upon all
our rights as neutral and fully per
forming our international obliga-
tions; and by the clear correctness
and justness of our position and our
manifest ability and disposition to
sustain them to dignity our place
among the nations.
81 stand for an Americanism that
knows no ulterior purpose. and Ior
n patriotism that is single and COM
plete. Whether native or natural.
lied, of whatever race or creed we
have but one country and we do not
for an instant tolerate any division
of allegiance. / believe in making
prompt provision to secure absolutely
our national security. | believe in
preparedness, not only entirely ade.
quate for our defense with respect
to numbers and equipment in both
army and navy. but with all thorough.
ness to the end that in each branch
of the service there may be the ut
most efficiency under the most com.
petent administrative heads.
But we are devoted to the ideals
of honorable peace. We wish to pro.
mote all wise and practical measures
for the just settlement of interna.
tional disputes. In view of our abid.
ing ideal, there is no danger OF
militarism in this country. We have
no policy of aggression: no lust for
territory; no zeal for strife. 1t is in
this spirit that we demand adequate
provision for national defense and
we condemn the inexcusable neglect
that has been shown in this matter
of first national Importance. We
must have the strength which self.
respect demands, the strength of an
efficient nation ready for every
emergency.
Our preparation must be indus
HOUSE PASSES TAYLoR's BILL.