The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-11
NOMINATION VIEWS
OF N. Y. NEWSPAPERS
Editorial Comments Concern
ing the Selection Of Hughes
and Fairbanks.
REASONS ARE ANALYZED

NcN York newspapers this morning
eommcu, cditorially on the Republican
nominations as follows
Times.
Tie nomination az Mr.. Hughes must
bear 90 foreign observers n bewildering
likeness 10 an express Endorsement OF
tue administration OF Woodrow Will
.on. lie is a man of the same type.
oonsc' vative. deliberate. accustomed to
consider carefully the consequences of
Us acts. never rash. never yielding to
nasty impulse or swayed by the heat OF
passion. ye, wi;hal inferior In capacity
and experience.
Nr Hughes means nothing TO the
country save what would have been
meant hv any other chosen among forty
sleut men. The candidacy of MIR. Fair
banks means nothing more than the hope
,f winning the electoral votes of Indiana
and u few other States where he In held
IN esteem 10y men who are
that anything has happened since 1909.
Platform and candidates are a con-
fcssion that the Republican party. striv-
tug to heal its hurts and strike a sue
,essful bargain for the return to its
FAE lNNAf - f''t ~ s'u6h w "
t'roy u. has no new or vital message
e. deliver to the American people.
Mr. Hughes will not be elected. His
defeat T. to be desired, among many
other reasons. for this good and suf-
iicicnt reason tha; the INVASION Of the
supreme Courts chamber by needy poll
rciaus IN search of a leader. now for
the first time in American history sue
c~essfully accomplished. may be rebuked
and made a precedent too dangerous
FOR following.
World.
In nominating Justice Hughes for
President the Republican party has paid
g. Woodrow Wilson the highest COMPILE
nont IL was capable of paying to him.
II has selected as its own candidate
thc Republican who in the popular mind
most nearly resembles President Wilson
a. character. In ability. in temperanen
and In capacity for idealistic public SER
vice. II has taken the Republican Will
son to be its standard bearer. because II
did not dare take anybody who pre-
sented a contrast to the Democratic
wilson. II has brought the Supreme
Court Of the United States into politics.
because 1t was afraid to nominate a
candidate with a recent record of oppo-
0AN4Nl W ~ u u ~ hfuo os'iN
HUGHES in the blind belief that history
may rcpeat itself.
There was no good faith back OF the
nomination Of Hughes for Governor.
There Is no good faith back OF the nomi-
nation of Hughes for President. He Is
again the candidate OF a bankrupt party
gambling for power. this time with the
AID Of the German vote. which insisted
upon Hughes's nomination. His high
character, his splendid record OF public
service. his syot,ess integrity and his de-
yo;ion TO duty are sordidly capitalized by
an Old Guard that Is in partnership with
Privilege and Plutocracy for the rees-
adjustment Of reactionary government
and by hyphenated Americans who are
determined to avenge themselves upon
President Wilson for his patriotic re-
fusal TO submit; to Germany's murdcrous
submarine warfare.
The Herald.
The honor that has come to Justice
Hughes liz all the greater because of the
circumstances attending thereto. lie
has had no ambition to he President
s,nce his appointment to the Supreme
bench. 1t is probably true that he ha
not asked q single man to help him get
Q delegate.
IN tneSt circumstances WIN cuNh ~
position az was brought to bear by ths
Cd time leaders Of the Republican party
the nomination OF Justice Hughes wai
a. great an honor as mas ever been con-
f.rred upon an American citizen.
The res
Mr.. Hughes has been nominated by the
Republican convention and he has &C
cepted. Col. Roosevelt has been nomi'
mated by the Progressive convention and
he has not accepted.
This means to a dead certainty thu
: more posi,iv. action by Col. Roosevelt
later OF a definite d%eclinatiOn for at thu
moment OF his message that he could no
accept AZ this time ne had not seen Mr.
liughes's letter OF acceptance. upor
Vhich he made his final decision condi'
toual
hut there Is no doubt that Mr.
IIghes's acceptance. as this paper read!
and as the country will receive 1t, viii
confirm Col. Roosevelt in his determine
ton 10 reunite the Republican party IN
tn" purpose OF taking the United States
Government out of the control Of tn
lemocratic party. 80 that the nations
inter-. st. safety and honor may not b.
further endangered.
There will be no more OF the Progress
sye party as such In this campaign.