Arizona republican., 1916-06-14
The Madness of Democratic Politicians

We have been informed by the dispatches of yes
crday morning that the democratic national leaders
intend make the resignation of Mr.. Hughes from
the United States supreme to accept the repub-
lean nomination for the presidency of the United
States. national issue 1t is complimentary to the
other candidates for the republican nomination that in
the heated pre-conventon campaign, neither they nor
their friends were so Drained that
an objection the candidacy of Mr. Hughes.
The use of it by the democratic national
will prove two things-a poverty of issues and
the low estimate placed by the democratic leaders
upon the presidency the United States The presi-
dency would be made to appear to them to be mere
political job for which only politicians should scramble
and not opportunity for the exercise of statesman
ship of the highest order. The democratic theory
viii be in the United States, always,
certain men, the justices of the supreme court, who
good for the presidency; that the proposed
transfer Of member Of the court to the White House
would somehow work the contamination of the court
1t is conceivable that any American voter be
brought believe that there is anywhere Ameri-
can citizen who is too good too sacred to sit in
the White House.
Mr. Hughes resignation from the court and his
acceptance Of the republican nomination sacri-
flee which no mere politician understand 1t
bc fully understood by but patriot. The
honor o the presidency cannot appeal anyone
worthy to sit the supreme bench which all members
must be most reluctant to leave. We suppose that
worthy member of it since it formed would have
left it Of his voliton for the presidency To all
the great justices and Mr.. Hughes a great
Justice there nothing earthly beyond the bench
IL was the ultimate goal of their ambitions. 1t a
place which an occupant would renqush only
incentive, a high conception of his duty citizen
conviction that he could his country better in
some other place If there was ever justice who
would have passed from the the White
House on any other incentive a mistake made
when he appointed to the court.
out of the quiet dignity of the court which he has
greatly honored and to which he well fitted
10y temperament and training, where he had hoped to
spend the Of his life, Mr. Hughes has emerged,
like good soldier to participate in the fierce turmoil
Of a campaign which can bring him no other reward
than a at most terms In the presidency
where he will be at all times subjected to the bitter
criticism democratic party perhaps Of
his political friends If he should escape that he
avoided The sacrifice of Mr. Hughes is comparable
that of a courageous patriotic citizen who leaves
his family and the quiet of his home to take part in
the hardships and dangers of the trenches
We believe that this is the first time that demo
cratic politicians have ever regarded the suprem,
of the United States as a mysteriousy sacred
thing Democratic congressman have hesitated il
the past to denounce decisions of the tn,
floor OF the house the senate or on the politica
stump.
But the resignation of Mr.. Hughes appears to tn
politicians the only vulnerable point of and
that they viii waste their for that resignation
is convincing proof Of the Willingness of Mr. Hughe
to make the highest sacrifice for his country.