The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15
c. 0. P. POLITICS
SHIFTS TO EAST
HUGHES AT WORK
Main Efforts to Elect Ex-Jus-
tiCe of Supreme Bench Will
Be Conducted From
New York.
EXPECT T. r. TO DECLINE
Roosevelt Tentative State
ment May Be Followed By
One In Which He In
dorses Candidate.
EXPECT t. r. TO DECLINE

New York. June 13.-Interest in re-
publican political circles today shifted
to New York. where the fight for the
election of Charles Evans Hughes as
president of the United States will be
conducted.
1t is generally believed that Hughes
will nave the support of Theodore
Roosevelt. Although no word has come
from the Oyster Bay statesman, it is
taken as n certainty that he will not
accept the progressive nomination.
Mr.. Hughes Statement.
Til following is the text of the tele-
gram sent to Chairman Harding, of the
republican national conventions:
Mr.. Chairman and Delegates: I have
not desired the nomination. I have
wished to remain on the bench. But in
this critical period of our national his
tory ] recognize that it is your right
to summon and it is my duty to re-
spond You speak at a time of ma
tional eNlgencV, transcending merely
partisan considerations. You voice the
demand for a dominant, thoroughgoing
Americanism, with firm protective up
building policies essential to our peace
and security; and to that call in this
crisis I cannot fail to answer with the
pledge of all that is in me to the serv-
ice of the country Therefore. l accent
the nomination.
81 stand for the firm and u%nfiinching
maintenance of all the rights of Ameri-
can citizens on land and on sea. I
neither impugn motives nor underesti-
mate difficulties. But it is most re-
gretably true that in our foreign rela-
tons We have suffered i~ncalculably
from the weak and vacillating course
which has been taken with regard to
MeXico-a course lamentably wrong
with. regard to both our rights and our
duties. We interfered without consis-
tency, and while seeking to dictate
urhaD wa ypnrn NOT rn,oSr,,oI x,~ ,+t.N
ly failed to appreciate and discharge
our plain duty, to our own citizens.
AT the outset of the administration
the high responsibilities of our diplo-
matte intercourse with foreign nations
We're subordinated to a conception of
partisan requirements and we pre-
scented to the world a humiliating spec
tacle of ineptitude. Belated efforts
have not aVailed to recover the infu-
ence and prestige so unfortunately sac
rificed and brave words have been
stripped of Their force by INDIGESTION.
Foreign Relations.
Il desire to see our diplomacy re-
stored to its best standards and to have
these advanced; to have no sacrifices of
the national interest to partisan ex-
p~ediency; to nave the first ability of
the country always at it's
here and abroad in diplomatic inter-
curse; to maintain firmly our rights
~ IIlSlSllllS
steadfastly upon all our rights as mu-
tuai and fully performing our inter
national obligations, and by the clear
correctness and business of our positiCu
ana our manifest ability and disposi-
ton to sustain them to dignity our
place among the nations.
stand for an Americanism that
Knows no Interior purpose, for a pa
trlotlsm that is single and complete.
Whether native or naturalized of what
ever race Or creed, we have but one
country and we do not for an instant
tolerate any division of allegiance. I be-
leVe IN making prompt provision to Sc
cure adequately our national security.
l believe in preparedness, not only en-
tlfelY adequate for our defense with re-
spect to numbers and equipment in
beth army and navy, but with all thor
oughness to the end that in each
branch of the service there may be the
utmost efficiency under the most COM
petent administrative heads. But we,
are devoted to the ideals of honorable
peace. we wish to promote all wise
and practical measures for the lust
settlement of international disputes,
Must Prepare Industry.
In view of our abiding ideals. there
is no danger Of militarism in this coun-
Try. We have no policy of aggression:
no Just for territory; no zeal for strife.
u IS IN this speech that we demand
S"N> lioNl y naIlOn1I lafanSG
ana we condemn the i~nexcusable neg
rect that has been shown in this matter
pl llfst national Importance. We must
nave the strength which self respect
~ueLianas; the strength of an efficient
haeton ready for every emergency
ouf preparation must be industrial
and economic, as we'll as military ON
aeSelesl rests will come when the war
IS over. We must make a fair ana
mms IeadJastnent of the tariff, in ac-
ooEanance WIN sound protective prin-
clples, to insure our economic inde-
pendence n to maintain American
STANDARDS CT living. We must conserve
we JUST interests of labor, realizing tina;
democracy, patriotism and na1ional
s.ls.sth must be rooted in even handed
jj,st IN preventing, as we must, un-
just denominations and m~ononolistic
practlces. we must still be zeain,1s TO.
assure tha foundation of honest h1Is,-
ness. iaFt!cularly should we seek the
expansion of foreign trade. We must
49, ehiollle american enterprise here.
t%t aoroad, out rather m if ard
rake pride in honorable achiavenoants
we must take Zip the serious nrobIems.
~ uaispoftation of interstate and for
s.si IN in a sensible ana can
b bau lialhe9, and provide an enduring,
use Of ~ y, PROSPERITY by the intelligent
a 10Y y me constitutional powers of con-
grsss, SO as adequately to protect the.
pnMuunllc on the one hand and on the
te sMe conserve the essential instrument
.aliIes or progress.
cannot within the limits of this,
,ba, men speak upon all the subjects.
sa at MI Wl \ require attention. I can only
you have adopted.
! aseply appreciate the responsible
~ you impose. / should have been
giau g nave that responsibility placed
upoh another. But I shall undertake to-
meet II. grateful for the Confidence Won
express. I sincerely trust thai all for
t rhet el~tferences may be forgotten and
.naa we may have united effort in al
satIlotlc realization of bur NATIONAL
need and opportunity.
ana nave resigned my judiciary Gifted
a.iu am ready to devote myself unrel
serSsdly to the campaign.