Arizona republican., 1916-06-11

the supreme court and his telegram to
Chairman Harding. Back of him hung
a photograph of Chief Justice White.
On the wall was a full length likeness
of Abraham Lincoln; in the corner a
bust of Lincoln and on the mantle casts
of Lincoln's hands.
Long before the debating was fin
ished, the reporters began to gather for
their statement. They were shown to |
the drawing room up stairs. Ex
pectantly they listened to the click of
the typewriter on the floor below. At
last it stopped and they heard the
Justices voice asking for a messenger
boy. One of the score outside re-
sponded and was started for the White |
House A few minutes later, a second
was sent to the telegraph office with
message to Chicago.
With copies of the letter of resigna-
ton and the message to Chairman
Harding in his hand, Mr. Hughes him
self came upstairs to meet those who
had awaited him. There was none of
the subdued tone of hesitation which
had characterized his first greeting.
Il must apologize to you boys for
my typewriting facilities, for l have
been able to make only enough copies
for the press association" he ex-
planned. Mr.. Green is making more
but il looks as if it would be dark be-
fore he had enough for all"
Among the first callers at the home
, after the newspaper men was Rufus s.
( Day, son of Justice Day of the supreme
! court, with a message from his father
/ w iC i'll n Ohio
Robert H. Fuller, private secretary to
Mr. Hughes while he was governor of
New York The latter accompanied
the nominee on his short walk
Not long afterward Justice Brandeis
and Mrs. Brandeis arrived and were
received by Mr. and Mrs. Hughes JUS
tice Brandeis was Boston correspon-
dent for, the Hughes law firm years
ago and the two men have been friends
ever since The visitors remained half
an hour
/ Huge crowds gathered about the
residence on Sixteenth street about
mile from the White House during the
afternoon, but there was no demonstra-
ton. In the line of automobiles that
filled up the street was that of the
president and Mrs. Wilson, in which
they We're out for a ride.
At six o'clock newspaper offices tele-
phoned to Mr.. Green the statement is
sued by Mr.. Roosevelt. Mr. Hughes
was Informed of it's substance but re-
piled that he had nothing to say
There was a decided air of qualification
and relief about the house, however
During the evening kilograms by the
hundreds poured in and many callers
left cards, despite a violent hail and
electrical storm which swept over the
city.
1t has been as a member of the
supreme court that Mr.. Hughes has
been known in Washington. In his
first year on the bench he announced
the courts decision that an Alabama
statute sanctioning a form of peonage
was unconstitutional. Later he en-
forced a series of interpretations 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 APP
ply to "quack medicines" Justice
Hughes had been outvoted by his col
leagues in extending the original law
to such medicines and had suggested
the need of congress amending the law
He wrote the decision holding the
Oklahoma Jim Crow law applying to
Interstate commerce, unconstitutional,
and dissented from the court in it's ac-
ton in annulling as unconstitutional
the Kansas statute making it criminal
4 offenSe for an employer to require an
employe to agree not to join a union.
He also dissented in the Leo NJ. Frank
case. joining Justice Holmes in hold
ing that Frank had not been accorded
a fair trial on the indictment of hav-
ing murdered the factory girl, Mary
Phagan, at Atlanta, Ga. He had rem
dered the courts opinion announcing
the Arizona alien labor law unconsti-
tutional because it denied to foreigners
an opportunity to work
Charles Evans Hughes was born in
Glenns Falls, N. Y, April II. 1862
making him four years younger than
exPresident Roosevelt and six years
younger than President Wilson.
His father was a Baptist minister
t and his mother was devout woman
!, who shaped his early education with
) the idea of preparing him for the
J ministry. The family moved to New
ark, n. j., when he was boy, and
, during his young manhood it settled
J in New York City Brilliant always
as a student young Hughes was
! graduated from a New York high
school at the head of his class at the
age of Is. He was graduated from
Brown University in 1881, one of the
: five Phi Beta Kappa honor men OF
l his year. Finally he attended the
r Columbia University Law School
holding the prize fellowship from 1881
: to 1887.
I At the beginning of his career Mr.
D Hughes was an instructor in Greel
and mathematics in Delhi, ~ Y.
Gliding remark from the principal o
! that academy to the effect that youns
> Hughes would have trouble in con
trolling the disciplines of his classes
because he had mo more beard thar
an egg" is cited in innumerable bio
graphical records of Mr. Hughes al
having been responsible for tn
. Hughes beard which has since fig
: ured so largely in political carl
: catures.
= After a short experience as an edu
Gator Mr.. Hughes became a lawyer
clerk in the office of Stewart