The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-27
SAYS PEOPLE WANT HUGHES.
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the hearts Of millions of sturdy Repuhli-
cans an intleXible resolution to prevent
him from finishing in 1916 the work he be-
gan in 1912, by swallowing the great organ
iZatIon to which he owes his own political
fame and fortune. 1t seemed n March
that Roosevelt for President, tempered BY
Root for secretary of state, might make
effective appeal to the country. 1t docs
not seem so now. There was in March at
least a possibility that the Republican par
ty would turn to him for Anything to
beat Wilson. We perceive no such posi-,
bility now. The entire situation with re
speq to both Root and Roosevelt has
changed in two months.
What them
Nobody wants Hughes Roosevelt pre-.
fers tas second choice Root who could
serve only four years. Root I'VE assume
from recent happenings) would find his
former chief more congcnial. Barnes
doesn't want him. Perrose doesn't. Mn
Henry p. Dawson, of J. = Morgan & Co,
doesn't, >ir George Perkins, formerly Of
j. p Morgan < Co. and now OF the Har-
vester company doesn't. Mr. Robert Ba-
con, formerly of J. p Morgan & Co and
now most mutual friend of Mr. Root and
Mr.. Roosevelt, doesn't. Judge Gary
doesn't. Mr., Thomas F. Ryan doesn t.
Mr.. John ID. Arnold doesn't Nicholas
Murray Butler doesn't President Wilson
Heaven help u.s. doesn't. Colonel House
(HeaVen help us againn doesn't Mir
Burleson doesn't. Mr.. McAdoo doesn't
Mr. Tumulty doesn't. Colonel Wattersou
doesn't, The World doesn't, The Spring
field Republican maybe doesn't He doesn't
even want himself. Nobody wants Hughe.
nobody but the people
ITTa1,1d CIariFxy DoIi+icc
Granting, as we have admitted the Gus
tomary individuality OF drawing a grea
Judge from the supreme bench and grant
ing further the improperly OF such al
one becoming an active candidate, it is oui
inahenable right at this most critical juno
ture in our country's progress to put a
the head of the nation any citizen VIII,
most adequately satisfies all requirements
and it is no less the bounden duty of tina
citizen to answer such a call. Incidentally
we are convinced that the election of jus
4 tiee Hughes as President would be ia
h more likely to clarity the muddy turmo
of politics than to bespatter the judcia
\ ermine-a contamination devoutly to b
wished"
Eve, the people, care more for what
I man is than for what he says. If we kno,
him through and through and believe i
him, as we believed in Washington, in Liz
coin and in Cleveland, we do not need t
4 be informed of his opinion upon every sui
4 lect that may come up, from peonage i
Mexico to ruttled birds in the West Indie
We do not think Mr. Hughes is a bette
4 American than Mr.. Roosevelt but "
think he is just as good, twice as sount
and many times as trustworthy. We
\ not rank him as high intellectually as NJ
4 Root, but we perceive none other who slI
4 passes him in this regard, and we cannt
! but consider the hazard, and perhaps IL
4 wrong, of placing the tremendous burden
! of the presidency upon the shoulders of
! man who is living on borrowed time "
\ do not know, indeed we doubt, that he
2 as keen and shrewd in mind as Mr. w
] son, but we think he is more dependabl
I and somehow or other we feel that he
4 more of mana regular Teller, as tn
4 say on Cherry Hill"
f'Never since this Republic demand
\ that George Washington become its fiji
I President has there appeared SO strlSi
I an instance of the Office seeking the ma
\ Never has been call so peremptory, nj
4 er a constantly swelling force so certa
in, our judgment, to prove irresistih
Rightly or wrongly, wisely or not, the u
\ of the people will prevail, and Char
Evans Hughes will be the next Republic
I candidate for President OF the Unit
States. And the overpowering issue y
be one Of men of ability, Of Judgment
y fidelity. but above all Of character.