The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-11
NOTABLE OPINIONS

l the opinions in the two-cent rate cases ! from Minnesota and half dozen other states. In his first year the bench he announced the decision holding uncon- stitutional an Alabama statute that the court decided sanctioned a form of peon- age. Later he enunciated a series of opinions on the pure food law in which he stood for a broad interpretation of that statute.
 In the last few months he joined in holding constitutional an amendment to the pure food law by which Congress specifically extended the statute to apply to "quack medicines" Justice Hughes had been outvoted by his colleagues in extending the original law to such medi- cines and had suggested the need of Con- gress amending the law. He wrote the decision holding the Oklahoma jim crow law, applying to interstate commerce, un- constitutional and dissented from the court in it's action in annulling as uneon- stitutonal Kansas statute making it a criminal offense for an employer to re- quire an employe to agree not to join union. He also dissented in the Leo NJ Frank case, joining Justice Holmes in holding that Frank had not been accorded a fair trial on the indictment of having murdered the factory girl, Mary Phagan, at Atlanta. He had rendered the court s opinion announcing the Arizona alien labor law unconstitutional because it de- nied to foreigner an opportunity to work.
 TELEGRAM TO HARDING The following is the telegram sent to Chairman Harding:
 MT Chairman and Delegates:
 T have not desired the nomina tion have wished to remain on the bench. But in this critical period in our national his tory 1 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 partisan considerations. You voice the demand for dominant, thorough-going Americanism with firm protective upbuild- ing 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 service of our country. Therefore. I accept the nom- ination.
 T stand for the firm and unfiinching maintenance of all the rights of Ameri- can citizens land and sea. I neither impugn motives nor underestimate diffi- culties. But it is most regrettably true that in our foreign relations we have suffered incidentally from the weak and vacillating course which has been taken with regard to Mexico-a course lament ably wrong with regard to both our rights and our duties We interfered without consistency, and while seeking to die ta te when we were not concerned we ut terly failed to appreciate and discharge our plain duty to our own citizens.
 At the outset of the administration the high responsibilities of our diplomatic intercourse with foreign nations were suhordlnated to conception of partisan requirements and we presented to the world humiiating responsibility of apti- tude. Blatant efforts have failed to re- cover the influence and prestige unfor- tu1ately sacrificed, and brave words have been stripped of their force by indecision
 Our desire to see our diplomacy re- stored to its best standards and to have these advanced; to have no sacrifice of national interest to partisan experiences; to have the first ability of the country always at it's command here and abroad in diplomatic intercourse; to maintain firmly our rights under international law; insisting steadfastly upon all our rights as mutual and fully performing our in ternational obligations and by the clea r correctness and justness of our position | and our manifest ability and disposition to sustain them to dignify our place among the nations
 STANDS FOR AMERICANISM
 II stand for an Americanism that knows no ulterior purpose; for patriotism that is single and complete. Whether native or naturalized, or whatever race or creed we have but one country and we do not for an instant tolerate any division of allegiance.
 T believe in making prompt provision to assure absolutely our national securi- ty. I believe in preparedness not only entirely adequate 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 utmost effi- ciency under the most competent admin istrative heads. We are devoted to the ideals of honorable peace. We wish to promote all wise and practicable meas ures for the just settlement of interna- tional disputes. In view of our abiding ideals there is no danger of militarism in this country. We have no policy of aggrandizement; no lust for territory; no zeal for strife. It is in this spirit that we demand adequate provision for na- tional defense, and we condemn the in- excusable neglect that has been shown in this matter of first national import ance. We must have the strength which self respect demands, the strength of an efficient nation ready for several emer- gencies.
 "Our preparation must be industrial and economic, as well as military Our sever est tests will come after the war is over. We must make a fair and wise readjust- ment of the tariff, in accordance with sound protective principles to insure our economic independence and to maintain American standards of living. We must conserve the just interests of labor, real izing that in democracy patriotism and national strength must be rooted in even handed justice. In preventing as we must unjust discriminations and monopo- listic practices, we must still be jealous to assure the foundations of honest busi- ness Particularly should we seek the expansion of foreign trade. We must not throttle American enterprise, here or abroad, but rather promote it and take pride in honorable achievements. We must take up the serious problems of this transportation of the interstate and foreign commerce in a sensible and can did manner, and provide an enduring basis for prosperity by the intelligent use of the constitutional powers of Congress so as adequately to protect the public on the one hand and on the other to conserve the essential instrumentalities of progress
 FOR CIVIL SERVICE
 'I stand for the principles of our civil service laws In every department of government the highest efficiency must be insisted upon.
 For all laws and programmes are vain without efficient and impartial adminis- tration I cannot within the limits of this statement speak upon all the sub- jects that will require attention. can only say that I fully. indorse the plat form you have adopted.
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