Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-21
HUGHES ISSUES
ARE RIDICULED.


New York: The New York Times
IN remarkable editorial headed, "A
Time of National Exigency," sarcas-
tically attacks Charles e. HuRhes'
method of campaigning. The Times
editorial first quotes the first para
graph of Justice Hughes disclaimer
OF any desire for the nomination in
hls speech of acceptance.
II have not desired the nomination,
wished to remain on the bench, but
in the critical hour of our national
history | recognize that it is your
right TO summon, and that it is nv
paramount duty to respond. You
talk at time of national exigency
transcending merely party consider
alton.
Times Flags Hughes
Ihe Times goes on to say:
He wanted to stay on the bench
but he couldn't, because this was a
critical period of our national his.
tory, a time of national exigency
transcending merely partisan consid-
Grafton,
w hat was this national exigency
that forced this reluctant Justice Off
'he bench! What makes this peried
critical? Wherein does it transcend
party considerations? There are
many Americans, many republicans
who cannot answer these question
we Know how Col. Roosevelt, Sena-
tor Lodge, Mr.. Root, Mr.. Wicker
sham, Mr., Bacon, Mr.. Shoate would
answer them. But the question is.
how Mr. Hughes has answered them.
He has been talking for a month and
we know
This is solemn hour. So solemn
that mere Fairbanks, or Burton or
Cummins could meet it and the re-
publicsns had TO take Justice off
the bench. What makes it solemn as
we learn from Mr.. Hughes, is that
the President put some republicans
out of Office and put some democrats
IN 1t is q critical period Of our ma
tionai history because Durand and
Ijttman lost their jobs. 1t is time
OF national exigency' because while
we are now prosperous, the Wilson
administration will surely bring
about hard times in the long run. It
'transcends merely partisan consid-
eratlons' because the Underwood
tariff is unsatisfactory to those who
liked the Aldrich tariff, in one city
the situation is critical for one rea.
son, IN another for different reason.
Fairbanks Could Have Handled It
"As Mr.. Hughes rambles on around
the country, new resources occur to
him every moment for thinking that
the period is critical, the time ex1-
gent. and partisan considerations are
transcended, Each time he hits on
one or the other reasons he is visibly
astonished and delighted. At Nash
willie he discovered that the time was
exlgent because of the Presidents
action in the railroad strike. Aha
you hear him say, i knew it all the
tide. | said in June that the coun-
try was in danger. In September /
found out why.
Searching for issues he journeys
from state to state; each day he ran
sacks the morning papers to find out
why the situation is critical and the
time e8igent, partisan transcribed.
A Glonth has passed and he has for
gotten the national exigency caused
by the departure of Tittman and Dur
and from the government service; his
exigencies, his crisis, like the mercies
of the Lord, are new every morning.
81 { he really did wish to remain on
the bench, it is a pity he left it, for
the kind of national exigency he
| thinks he really heeds does not need
him Fairbanks could have handled
It, +"