Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-12
Hughes as New Chief Justice
Ranked With Taft i'm Ability

Parallels between the careers of Will
liam H. Taft and Charles E. Hughes are
! discovered as one is suddenly named to
succeed the other in the post of Chief
Justice of the United States Supreme
Court. \ It is also a matter for comment
that both are credited with qualities
suited to carry on the traditions of the
highest court.
No two men in the United States
IN the opinion of the Madison Wiscon-
sin State Journal. have had their lives
more entwined with the Government of
the United States during the past IS
years than Charles Evans Hughes and
William Howard Taft. The retiring
Chief Justice holds the distinction of
being the only citizen of this Nation
who has held both the Office of President
OF the United States and Chief Justice
OF the Supreme Court. Judge Hughes
Is one of the few men who have ever
resigned after an appointment to the
Supreme Court bench"
The naming of Mr.. Hughes in the
Judgment of the San Antonio Express.
points to "a fitting climax of a diStin-
guiShed public career" The Express
also says: Many parallels are seen in
the careers of these two citizens Each
has grown old in public service: each is
an ardent worker for world peace. Mr..
Taft antedated Woodrow Wilson in ad-
vocacy of League of Nations. Mr..
Hughes service to the cause, as Secre-
tary Of State, chairman of the Five
Power Conference at WASHINGTON in
l92l-22, and on the Permanent Court
OF international Justice, is well known
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THE public considers the Nation for
tunate." according to the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, that President Hoover
had ready for the vacant post so i'm
preSSively able jurist as Charles E.
Hughes. He will carry on the
line On great jurists who have filled the
post" The Tulsa World says of both
men that they are cognizant of and
alert to the duty of observing the spirit
as we'll as the letter of the law" and
that both have many times spoken
their minds freely upon great questions
before the public, and they have at all
times been candid and fearless That
paper holds that sit would be hard to
ma Two men whose opinions on a large
variety OF subjects are SO largely &C
cepted: The Helena Montana Record
Herald states that lin our generation
these Two names will stand foremost for
unselfish service, high integrity and
great ability"
AT home and abroad" AYERS the
Fort Worth acknowledgement, Charles
E. Hughes has come to be recognized
as being almost-if not ouite-the
foremost living American. The nearest
approach to criticism would be that
ne might have been more valuable to
america and Americans as the inter-
national influence he certainly would
have been as a Justice of the worId
Court. The elevation of Justice Har-
Ian Stone to the chief justiceship and
the appointment of an ASSOCIATES ms
tlce would have been much easier of
satisfactory accomplishment than the
probability of having another Charles
f. Hughes in Geneva" The Apple
ton PoSt-Crescent feels that his name
VIII add to the prestige of that re-
markable court, and he will be a con-
tribution to the liberal spirit that is
slowly but surely gaining ground in
us personnel" The Lowell Evening
Leader declares that "by the most ex-
acting standards that could be applied.
Mr.. Hughes qualities for the post"
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quite truthfully one commentator
has said he ranks with Clay and Web
ster among Americans who have won
undytng distinction in statecraft. with
out being elevated to the presidency"
states the Oklahoma City Times, while
the st. Louis Times pays the tribute
that he "blazed the trail for the present
session OF the Five-Power Naval Com
ference" and was IAN intrepid governor,
during two terms, of the great State of
New York. plant to no influences that
were solely political"
President Hoover has selected a
statesman who is one of the greatest of
living Americans" the Houston Chron-
lcle says, and the Kansas City Journal-
Post comments: THE full powers of
Mr.. Hughes were most widely recog-
nlzed when he was Secretary of State
Naturally Inclined to larger partici-