The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1916-05-04
NOBODY WANTS HUGHES
NOBODY But THE PEOPLE.
Colonel George Harvey Surveys the
Field and Picks the Winner in the
MAY North American Review.

May North American Review.
IL seemed IN March that Roosevelt
for President, tempered by Root foi
Secretary Of State, might make effec.
1--WE appeal 70 the country, II does
not seem so now There was in March
at least a possibility that the Repub-
lican party would turn TO him for
Anything 10 beat Wilson" We per
ecive no such possibility now. The en-
tire situation with respect to both
Root and Roosevelt has changed in
two months
What then?
Nobody wants Hughes, Roosevelt
prefers (as second choicel Root, who
could serve only four years. Root TIVE
assume from recent happonings) would
and his former chief more congenial.
Barnes doesn't want him. Penrose
doesn't. Mr.. Henry T. Dawson Of j.
p. Morgan & Co. doesn't Sir George
Perkins, formerly Of j 7. Morgan &
Co. and now of the Harvester Com
pany, doesn't. Mr. Robert Bacon,
formerly OF J. F. Morgan e. Co and
now a most mutual friend Of Mr.. Root
and Mr. Roosevelt doesn't. Judge
Gary doesn't. Mr.. Thomas F. Ryan
doesn't Mr.. John d. Archbold does
Mt. Nicholas Murray Butler doesn't.
President Wilson tHeaven help usD
doesn't. Colonel House tHeaven help
us againD doesn't. Mr., Burleson
doesn't. Mr.. McAdoo doesn't. Mr.
Tumulty doesn't. Colonel Watterson
doesn't. The World doesn't. The
Springfield Republican maybe doesn't.
He doesn't even want himself. No
body wants Hughes
Nobody but the people!
Is not that so? 1t is. You know 1t.
We know it. They whom we have
mentioned know it, Even Hughes may
know il. though we have our doubts.
But why is il? That is the question.
Mr. Hughes is as great judge as
Mr.. Root is lawyer During the
oast seven years he has had at least
an eaual experience in dealing oilic-
ially with international legal prob
lens. As students of political his
tory, they stand upon an even plane.
Is it not safe to assume that Mr..
Hughes, sedulous official, has stud
led as closely as Mr.. Root, private
citizen. the subjects, vital to the vel
fare Of the nation, which have grown
out of the great war? Would Mr..
Choate feel less assured of ability and
yirility in the conduct of the affairs
of the nation by Mr.. Hughes, at nifty
five, as President, and Mr. Root, as
secretary Of State, than by Mr.. Root
at seventy-two as President, laden
with the enormous burden of that
great Office ? Can Mr.. Choate suggest
a stronger combination or one more
satisfying to us, the people, than that
which we have indicated? ? Would ne
not, in truth and candor, concede that
Mr.. Root, at three-score-and- twelve,
could render infinitely greater service
as Secretary of State, charged only
with the management of foreign al
fairs, than as President, grievously
overwhelmed by domestic problems as
well? So we, the people, soberly ana
sincerely believe.
AS between the Justice and the
President a "drastically Independent
public journal which can never belong
to any party" could have no prefer
ence. And yet, bewilderingly, the
World not only vehemently demands
the nomination of Roosevelt, regardless
of possible consequences TO the coun-
try, but sapiently insists that Roose-
welt will never permit his friends TO
vote for Hughes, and that,if Hughes
should be nominated, Roosevelt viii
find some excuse TO run against the
man whom he refers to in private CON
versation as that Baptist hypocrite.
We, the people, who have cherished
Our Colonel in the past and continue
TO wish him well, have no means OF
learning and no wish to publish what
may have been uttered "in private
If 1t should develop,
upon trustworthy testimony, that Mr..
Roosevelt did actually and deliber-
ately apply TO Mr.. Justice Hughes the
opprobrious term quoted, our disre
gard Of its designed effect would be
eoualled only by the sense Of shame
upon lis author which would possess
an decent minds.
We. the people, care more for what
a rrnn is than for what he says If II
we know him through and through 4
and believe in him, as we believed m
in Lincoln and in Cleye 4,
land, we DO not need TO be Informed
~ his onininn upon every subject that