The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-15
Charles f. Scott Is Opposed to
Instructions for Hughes.
Feels Certain the Justice Would
Not Accept Nomination.
WOULD TIE HANDS, Tie SAYS
Personally He Is Loyal to the
New Yorker.
He Charges the Whole Move
ment to w. Y. Morgan.

ment to w. Y. Morgan.
An instructed delegation for Justice
Hughes is misdirected energy on the
part of Kansas Republicans, according
to Charles F. Scott, of lola, who is
firm in the conviction that the New
Yorker will neither be a candidate nor
permit the use of his name by the
Chicago national convention Scott is
a Hughes enthusiast, too. Yet in his
Judgment the agitation for a Hughes
instruction is both in conflict with
Justice Hughes personal desire and
the traditions of the United States
supreme bench.
In Topeka today Scott pointed out
that every letter written by Justice
Hughes had indicated that he did
not desire to run and would not be-
come a candidate. That is not ALL
The lola man believes that Justice
Hughes is too deeply inbued with
the tradition of the supreme bench to
permit it to be brought into question
in a political controversy or to step
from his position and permit future
justices to be subject to suspicion as
possible seekers of party favor.
There is something deeper and
finer in the fibre of the United States
supreme court justices than most per-
sons realize" said the former Second
district congressman THAT is the de-
sire to maintain the impression that
appointments to the bench are life
sentences. am convinced that Justice
Hughes will neither be a candidate nor
permit the use of his name, nor will
he accept the nomination of the Re-
publican convention if rendered him.
That tradition of the United States
supreme bench will have much to do
with it.
Loyal to Hughes.
And mind you,'' urged Scott, Il
could be a most loyal enthusiastic
Hughes supporter. L think his can
didacy would be a strong asset to the
party and his nomination would insure
a Republican victory if he would ac-
cept. OF course 1 feel there are other
candidates whom the party could find
equally acceptable. Yet the Hughes
sentiment is clearly the most crystal
liked of any thus far mentioned for
the presidency.
With Hughes not a candidate and
his refusal of the nomination almost
certain, even should the nomination be
rendered him, it seems folly for Kan
sas to consider a Hughes instruction
1t would simply mean that the delega-
ton from this state would go to the
national convention with it's hands
tied and unable to act in any crisis
that might arise or to meet any situa-
ton which might confront the dele
gates.
Il am not opposed to the instruction
of delegates, mind that But in this
case it seems unwise. 1 have inter-
viewed scores of men. Except in the
case of Justice Hughes. sentiment is
not crystalliZed in any degree The
average man does not know whom he
wants. Maybe conditions will change
For Kansas to consider an instruction
for man who is not candidate, has
disavowed every suggestion of his can
Irll n oil Ill
accept under any circumstances, would
from no angle be a prudent move on
the part of the Republicans of this
state.
Launched by Morgan.
Scott believes the agitation for an
instructed Hughes delegation was
launched by w. Y. Morgan, lieutenant
governor, in the desire to provide a
bridge for the return of the Progress
sives to the Republican party.
| 81 have tried to look at Morgans
statement from every angle" said
Scott. 1T seems on,y that Billy must
| have desired to provide a bridge for
the return of the Progressives to a re-
united party. 1t would be far better
for White and Allen and the other
Progressives to return to the party
with banners flying, bands PLAYING and
everyone cheering than to come back
to the fold with battered faces and an
I explanation for their former actions
Would the Progressives unite with
the Republicans in the coming battle?
Scott saw no reason why they should
| be separated.
! L have studied the drafts of their
Chicago declaration of principles and
have found little if anything to which
a Republican could not subscribe to
and little which might not be in a Re-
publican platform were the subjects
considered. The extent of their stand
for preparedness was the one vague,
uncertain and indefinite declaration.
They do not make clear how far they
desire to go or just what they mean"
Abandoning Va@aries.
But Scott sees breaking away from
the 'vagaries" advocated by third
party leaders in the campaigns of 1912
and 1914.
There is little of the bombastic ut
terance of four years ago in the
statement sent out from Chicago
Scott pointed out There is only gen
eral reference to the initiative and ref
erendum and a showing that the lead
ers of the Progressive party are break
! ing away from the recall and other So
cialistic ideas. Really. there is very
! little that cannot be accepted by a Re
publican and 1 see no reason why the
| parties should be apart"
All of which looks like a new found
hope for reunited party Especially
since the remark is made by the same
| Charles F. Scott who spent ten week
Henry ]. Allen of Wichita as to the
merits of the Republican and Progress
sive parties. And even more promi-
nently is the olive branch displayed
since Henry j. Allen, late Progressive
gubernatorial candidate, refers to his
old associates as I'VE Republicans
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