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Show HUGHES STEPS DOWN FROM THE SUPREME BENCH Resigns as Soon as He Receives Re-ceives News of His Nomination Nomi-nation and Scores the Administration. EVENTFUL DAY IN THE JURISTS HOME News of Roosevelt's Declination Decli-nation Received With Evident Evi-dent Satisfaction, but Without Comment. WASHINGTON, June 10. Charles Evans Hughes stepped down today from the supreme bench, and, again a private citizen, accepted the Republican nomination nomi-nation for president. In a telegram ringing with denunciation of tho administration's ad-ministration's foreign policy and declaring de-claring for a dominant, thorough-going Americanism, he gave his decision to Chairman Harding of the Republican national convention and broke the long silence which had kept the leaders of his party in tho dark as to his attitude toward the great issues of the day. "I have not desired the nomination," said the telegram. "I have wished to remain on the bench. But in this critical crit-ical period of our national history 1 recognize that it is your right to summon sum-mon and that it is my paramount duty to respond." Resigns From Bench. Within an hour after Chairman Harding Har-ding had notified him of his nomination, nomina-tion, Mr. Hughes had accepted the call. His resignation, a scant two-line letter let-ter without a superfluous word, was on 'its way to the White House from the Hughes home .before the nominee had dispatched the message of acceptance, and called the waiting group of newspapermen news-papermen into his study to tell them of his decision. President Wilson accepted accept-ed the resignation in a reply almost as brief. Apparently, Mr. Hughes's letter was framed so that tho .president might bo saved the embarrassment of expressing express-ing regret or making more than a formal for-mal reply. "I hereby resign the office of associate asso-ciate justice of the supreme court of tho United States," he wrote. To which the president replied: "I am in receipt of your letter of resignation and feel constrained to yield to your desire. I, therefore, accept ac-cept your resignation as justice of tho supremo court of the United States, to take effect at once." Goes for Walk. When copies of both telegrams to Chicago and tho letter of resignation had been made public, Mr. Hughes left his home for his customary afternoon walk. Soon after his return Lawrence Green, his private secretary, told him of Colonel Roosevelt's conditional declination dec-lination of the Progressive nomination Mr. Hughes sent word to inquirers that he had nothing to say1 concerning it. His friends, however, were outspoken in their satisfaction over Colonel Roosevelt's Roose-velt's attitude. No plans have been mndo by the nominee nom-inee for the summer. Tho ramilv had practically dismantled the Sixteenth street residence here with the intention of returning to Maine for the hot months, but those plans had been abandoned. aban-doned. Whether Mr. Hughes will go on the stump, or who he will select to manage his campaign are questions that have not been given consideration so far. Candidate's Platform. In his telegram of acceptance, Mr. Hughes announced his stand "for the firm and unliiuching maintenance of all the rights of American citizens on land and sea ' for ' 'an Americanism that knows no ulterior purpose, for a patriotism pa-triotism that is single and complctf-"; and for "preparedness, not only entirely entire-ly adequate for our defense with respect re-spect to numbers and equipment in both army and navy, but with all thoroughness thorough-ness to the end that iu each branch of the service there may be the utmost efficiency under the most competent administrative ad-ministrative heads." What he thinks of the administra- (Continued on Page Two.) 3 HUGHES STEPS OS! m HIGH P05I1I (Continued from Page One.) tion 's foreign policy was told, in part, as follows: ' ' I neither impugn motives nor underestimate un-derestimate difficulties. But it is most regrettably true that in our foreign relations re-lations we have suffered incalculably from the weak and vacillating course which has been taken with regard to Mexico a course lamentably wrong with regard to both our rights aud our (I uties. Charges Indecision. 'At the outset of the administration the high responsibilities of our diplomatic diplo-matic intercourse with the foreign ia-tions ia-tions were subordinated to a conception concep-tion of partisan requirements and we presented to the world a humiliating spectacle of ineptitude. Belated efforts have not -availed to recover the influence influ-ence and prestige thus unf ortuuatcly sacrificed and brave words have been .stripped of their force by indecision." Events transpired with dramatic sud-dennesa sud-dennesa at tho Hughes home today a climax to monotonous weeks of waiting. wait-ing. It had been thought that things would move swiftly and that night would find the Kepublican convention adjourned, its work ended, but few of the candidate's closest friends believed that the day's development would crowd his resignation from the bench, his acceptance ac-ceptance of the nomination and his declaration dec-laration of principles into the space of little more than an hour. Convinced at Last. Throughout the pre-convention campaign cam-paign Justice Hughes had insisted that he would not be nominated. Not until last night after the balloting began did ho admit toliis intimates that he might be drafted to lead his party. Even then he made no statement as t5 what action he would take, but his silence was interpreted that he would accept, certainly if the action of tho convention conven-tion were practically unanimous. As the balloting was resumed today the Hughes household went along almost as usual. Only the justice had abandoned aban-doned his office on the first floor and retired to the privary of the third floor, with .Mrs. Hughes and their little lit-tle daughter Elizabeth. The eldest daughter, Miss Catherine, had gone to take a lesson from a tutor, and Miss : Helen was in New York preparatory to leaving on a Y. W. C. A. earning trip. The only son, Charles E. Hughes, Jr., a lawyer "in New York City, was at the Plattsburg , military camp. Desired No Details. There was no news from Chicago except ex-cept such as filtered in with the arrival of newspaper men or was telephoned by local newspaper officos. Even as to that, Mr. Hughes had let it be known that he did not care to be informed of the vote by states, leaving word that his private secretary should give him only the summary. Before the balloting began telegrams began to arrive, predicting the nomination nomina-tion and extending congratulation. Mr. Green went upstairs with the explanation explana-tion that the delay in taking the vote was due to further conferences. At 1 o'clock lunch was announced for the family. Then came the press dispatch announcing an-nouncing the nomination. Mr. Green mounted the stairs, three at a time. "I simply told the justice he had been nominated and turned my back," he remarked later. Newspaper Men Soon Arrive. Newspaper men crowded into the justice's jus-tice's office seeking an audience llr., Hughes came down to the reception hall, tears in his eyes and a tremble in his voice as he ' accepted the congratulations con-gratulations of the newspaper representatives represent-atives and shook their hands. He was asked for a statement. "Now, all I know about this is what you boys tell me, aud I have nothing to say 'now, but if you are interested I may have a statement for you at 3 o'clock," he replied. As the newspaper men rushed out the justice turned to Mr. Green with the remark, "Now for the statement," and the two entered the office. There at his big table, surrounded by his favorite pictures and relics, the justice jus-tice dictated his resignation from the supreme court and his telegram to Chirman Harding. Back of him hung a photograph of Chief Justice White. On the wall was a full length likeness of Abraham Lincoln ; in the corner a bust of Lincoln and on the mantle casts of Lincoln 's hands. Gather for Statement. Long before the dictating was finished, fin-ished, the reporters began to gather for their statement. They were shown to the drawing rqom upstairs. Expectantly Expec-tantly they listened to the click of the typewriter on the floor below. At last it stopped, and they heard the justice's voice asking for a messenger boy. One of the score outside responded and was started for the White House. A few. minutes later a second was sent to the telegraph office, with a message to Chicago. Chi-cago. With copies of the letter of resignation resigna-tion and message to Chairman Harding in his hand, Mr. Huches himself came upstairs to meet those who awaited him. There was none of the subdued tone or hesitation which had characterized charac-terized his tirst greeting. "I must apoloeie to you boys for my typewriting facilities, for I have been able to make onlv enough copies for the press associations, ' ' he ex-nlained. ex-nlained. ' Mr. Green is making more, but it looks as if it would be dark before be-fore he had enough for all." Many Congratulations. Anion the first callers ar the home after the news spread was Ka fus . hay. son of Jusfiee Pay of the supreme court, wlta a message iipm his father, I who is ill in Canton, Ohio. Then came i Robert H. Fuller, privato secretary to Mr. Hughes while he was governor of ew York. The latter accompanied the nominee on his short walk. Not long afterward, Justice randeis and Mrs. Brandeis arrivftdtand were received re-ceived by Mr. and Mrs. Hughes. Justice Jus-tice Brandeis was Boston correspondent for the Hughes law firm years ago and the two men "have been friends ever since. Tho visitors remained half an hour. Hundreds gathered about the residence resi-dence on Sixteenth street, about a mile from the White House, during the afternoon, aft-ernoon, but there was no demonstration. demonstra-tion. In tho line of automobiles that filed up the street was that of President Presi-dent and Mrs. Wilson, out for a ride. Air of Relief. At 6 o 'clock, newspaper offices telephoned tele-phoned to Mr. Green the statement issued is-sued by Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Hughes was informed ( of its substance, but replied that he had nothing to say. There was a decided air of gratification and relief about tho house, however, During the evening telegrams by the hundreds poured in, and many callers left cards, despite a violent hail and electrical storm which swept over the city. It has been as a member of the supremo su-premo court that Mr. Hughes has been known in Washington. In his first year on the bench he announced the court's decision that an ''Alabama statute sanctioning a form of peonage was unconstitutional. un-constitutional. ' ' Later he enunciated a series of opinions on the pure food law, in which he stood for a broad interpretation in-terpretation of that statute. Upheld Pure Food Law. In the last few months he joined in holding constitutional an amendment to the pure food law by which congress specifically extended the statute to apply ap-ply to "quack medicines. " Justice Hughes had been out-voted .by his colleagues col-leagues in extending the original law to such medicines and had suggested the need of congress amending the law. He wrote the decision holding the Oklahoma wJim Crow" law, applying to interstate commerce, unconstitutional, unconstitution-al, and dissented from the court in its action in annulling as unconstitutional a Kansas statute making it a criminal ofTcnse for an employer to require an employee to agree not to join a union. He also dissented in the Leo M. Frank case, joining Justice Holmes in holding hold-ing that Frank had not been accorded a fair trial on the indictment of having hav-ing murdered the factory girl, Mary Phagan, at Atlanta, Ga. He had rendered ren-dered the court's opinion announcing the Arizona alien labor law unconstitutional unconstitu-tional because it denied to foreigners an opportunity to work. |