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Show THE CANDIDATES. Wo believe that tho nominatioa of Charles Evans Hughes for president and Charles Warren Fairbanks for vire president on the Republican ticket will be an inspiration to tho party and the nation. We feel sure that in their hearts the great mass of the American peoplo will say that tho Republican national na-tional convention selected the best men from among all the available candidates. candi-dates. Members of the party will regard re-gard the work of the convention with pride and exaltation and will go into the campaign with a thrilling sense confidence. We have pointed out as a notable feature of the convention the fact that sentiment for Justice Hughes took the form of a tidal wave as soon as the delegates had begun to assemble in Chicago. He was so conspicuously tho logical candidate, so eminently the fittest fit-test candidate, that only the peculiar circumstances - of the Progressive convention con-vention and the Roosevelt opposition "prevented his nomination on the first ballot. Republicans who take a retrospective view of their party since the days of Lincoln and estimate the merits of the many magnificent candidates the party has had will appreciate how fully the party has been true to its traditions in ' selecting such a man as Justice Hughes. I He is such a man as would gladden the heart of Abraham Lincoln. Ho is of the type of the greatest Americans ! the men we turn to in a spirit of patri- I otic respect and admiration. He is I noble, wise and strong. He is as pure of heart as any Chevalier Bayard and ! as able as our ablest statesmen from j the time of Washington to the present day. I The Tribune, which has been a sup- I porter of Hughes from the time it b'e- i came apparent that he was an available candidate and whose allegiance has not j faltered, predicts that from this mo- I ment his candidacy will take On a grow- ! ing power just as did the sentiment for j him as soon as the hosts began to gath- 1 cr for the convention. We predict that i the esteem he has won and the en- ! thusiasm he has aroused will be mag nified immensely within the next few I weeks and that as the campaign pro ceeds he will quite overshadow his distinguished dis-tinguished opponents. Those who watched the candidacy of Charles Warren Fairbanks for first place on the ticket with satisfaction will be profoundly gratified that he is again on the Republican ticket. He would have made an excellent Candida Candi-da If for president and we may say without reflection upon his ability that he will make a better candidate for vice president. We say this not only in consideration of his personality but of the locality from which he comes. The nomination of Mr. Hughes from New York made it eminently advisable to select a vice presidential candidate from Indiana. .Not long ago the lending business and professional men of Salt Lake had an opportunity to meet Mr. Fairbanks at close quarters and to form an opinion opin-ion of the man who had been vice president of the United states. To say that, they were vastly impressed and somewhat surprised is to describe the psychology of the affair mildly. We all know that the campaign artists and writers had been accustomed to por-tray por-tray Mr. Fairbanks as cold and distant in his demeanor, but it was easy to underhand un-derhand that the American people had rasily seen the essential falsity of the caricature. The members of the Bonneville Bon-neville club found Mr. Fairbanks quite as typical an America u as is Mr. .Hughes genia,. energetic, able, strong. Thf'y took away a most pleasant impression im-pression of a splendid personality and t hey did not wonder that Mr. Fairbanks Fair-banks had come to occupy such a prominent prom-inent place among t lie most respected public men of the day.' We have already ta ken occasion to indorse the magi i fie wit platform adopted adopt-ed by the convention. Side by side with it the voters should place the statement issued by Justice Huches 'in accepting the nomination. - It is but natural that the preliminary campaign document should be more or less general gen-eral in charact er. It would be impossible impos-sible for Mr. Hughes to discuss fully at this time those issues which are r merging as the dominant issues of the campaign, but we wish to recommend to the attention of tho voters at this i time his statements regarding Ameri- an i preparedness, t a ri IT, foreign , relations generally and the Mexican : relations in particular. We think that lie has expressed with power and point the sound Republican view on all these topics and has at the same time unerringly un-erringly exposed the flaws in the Democratic, Dem-ocratic, armor. M r. Hughes is recognized recog-nized as one of the most effective campaigners in the country and as the campaign develops he will state the Repaid b-an position with a force and skill which few men of his party can equal. The public, career of Charles Evans Hughes has been 0110 of the most remarkable re-markable in the history of the nation. When we recall that it is less than a dozen years since he first attracted public attention by his brilliant and brave conduct of the insurance investigation inves-tigation wo cannot but wonder at the swiftness and siuvncss of his rise. Vet when we begin to analyze the circumstances circum-stances our astonishment loses half its force. A study of his life shows that in his school days he was always a leader. His character and his faithful preparation for the legal profession, his success in his chosen work, all marked him out as one who but needed the opportunity op-portunity to be able to claim the highest high-est prizes of public life. Since the triumph of the insurance investigations his progress has been almost without a halt. If ho has rested from victories for a few weeks or months it has been but to gain new strength before mounting mount-ing to still more exalted heights. And the American people will testify that every advance has been deserved and that with the White House as his goal he is among the worthiest men who have ever been selected for presidential presi-dential honors. Mr. Hughes begins, his campaign with those just and wise acts which Republicans Repub-licans expect from their candidates. There was not a moment's hesitancy in bowing to the will of tho party. He accepted that will as a high command which he could not disobey despite the fact that he had already attained a position po-sition worthy of the ambitions of the best and ablest. Nor did' he hesitate a moment to resign that exalted position posi-tion when he saw with flawless vision that it was the right thing to do. These first acts of the campaign will give to his supporters a serene faith in Mr. Hughes and his candidacy. When i he was silent before the nomination : there were opponents who hastened to : condemn him even though they recog- j uized that he was right. They are now j put to shame by the promptness audi sure wisdom of his acts when he is j called upon to act. |
