New Britain herald., 1917-01-23
HUGHES IS BACK
 WITH NO REGRETS
Welcomed at Dinner Given by
 New York Bar

New York, Jan. 23.-Welcomed home last evening as a plain lawyer by the Bar association, Charles E, Hughes told five hundred members of his profession at dinner given for him at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel that he had no regrets for his course in politics. The future of the coun- try rests upon the integrity of the oar' MT. Hughes declared, and there can De no higher duty for any man than to follow the highest ideals of that profession.
 T come back without any com plalnt or regret" MT. Hughes said. after he had received a warm recep- tlon Il return to the practice proud of the work of 8 lawyer I have no desire to invoke sympathy by any suggestion of misfortune. did not wish to resign from the bench but it was my duty and I do not regret what did. l return from my ten years of excursions without pessimism."
 Referring to his work during his ten years of absence from the 'hearthstone,' Mir. Hughes said that If man does what he thinks is right he will have the support of his com- mun1ty. He was glad he had served as judge, the speaker said and he knew that the Bar and the public had no adequate idea of the magnitude of service of judges. He spoke of the difficulty facing the country in main taining the proper balance of power between localities, the states and the nation. The state power must be maintained where it is essential, and the national power must be extend ed where it may reach property, he said.
 "It is essential to the future of this country that the highest standard be maintained not only on the bench, but in the bar" MT. Hughes said. "The future of the republic depends largely on an enlightened and pa triotic bar, on men who see the pub lie necessities of their time and who are not submerged in practice. The proudest ornaments of the bar and of the law are the men who have been unpurchasable by fees"
 Mir. Root on Mir. Hughes.
 There was no doubt that the Bar association was glad to have MT. Hughes back.
 "I am glad he is here. but I wish he were somewhere else" Elihu Root said, MT. Hughes has come back to perform two functions-one of the most eXacting that can come to any man, that of being a prominent citi- zen. The other is the duty of being a lawyer, and in that capacity he will add in e1evating the bench, help ing to restore the best traditions of the bar. Gods knows we need men whose trust is not in words and fine phrases and expression of fine senti-
 nent, men who do not so much talk about their passion for country as men who love liberty so much as they are willing to give it to others Justice John Proctor Clarke. pre- siding justice of the appellate di- vision, thanked the Bar association for work done by it's grievance com mittee, which he said is of great ser vice to the courts. There is no finer office, Justice Clarke told MT. Hughes, than being an honorary member of the Bar association, with a big prac tice." Now MT. Hughes is a free man. walking the streets of his own city, not afraid to meet any reporter, and not followed by a secret service corps the speaker said.
 Four justices of the supreme court have resigned in the history of that bench. Frances Lynde Stetson said l and the last resignation, that of MT. Hughes, was the most regrettable of | all, because he did not like to think l of these justices as available for po | litical nomination. Hereafter every | justice of the United States supreme court must know that his utterances may some day be the subject of po- 1 litical consideration and MT. Stetson said he hoped no other justice would ever be compelled to make the sacri- flee required of MT. Hughes.