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Show SELECT HUGHES MiDMiS REPUBLICANS IN NATIONAL CONVENTION CON-VENTION NOMINATE NEW YORKER AND I N Dl AN I AN. Selection of Charles Evans Hughes for Presidency Came on Third Ballot, While Charles W. Fairbanks Was Chosen on First Bailot. Chicago, June 10. Charles Evans Hughes, former governor of New York and Justice of the supreme court of the United States, was nominated for the presidency by the Republican national convention. Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana, Indi-ana, elected vice-president with Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt in 1904, again was chosen cho-sen for second place on the Republican Republi-can ticket. Both nominations, made by overwhelming over-whelming majorities on the first ballot of the day the third ballot of the convention con-vention were by acclamation made unanimous. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, presented by Roosevelt as a comprom- i yield to your desire. I. therefore, accept ac-cept your resignation as justice of the ! supreme court of the United States, to take effect at once." In his iplt-gram of acceptance, Mr. Hughes announced his stand "for the firm and unflinching maintenance of all the rights of American citizens on land and sea"; for "an Americanism that knows no ulterior purpose, for a patriotism that is single and complete"; com-plete"; and for "preparedness, not only entirely adequate for our defense with respect to numbers and equipment equip-ment in both army and navy, but with all thoroughness to the end that in each branch of the service there may be the utmost efficiency under the most competent administrative heads." What he thinks of the administration's administra-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 and our duties. "At the outset of the administration the high responsibilities of our diplomatic diplo-matic intercourse with the foreign nations na-tions were subordinated to a conception concep-tion of partisan requirements and we presented to the world a humiliating versity law school, holdirg the priz fellowship from 1SS4 to 1SST. After a short experience as an e;lu cator and as a law clerk. Mr. Hughe entered the practice of law, gaining i" reputation which brought him the of fer of the nomination for mayor ot Xew York, which he declined. He was later elected governor of New York and resigned his office, in hi? second term, when appointed to the supreme court bench by President Taft. Mr. Hughes was married in Nev York City, December 5, 1SSS, to Antoinette, An-toinette, daughter of Walter S. Car ter, and had four children, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., Helen, Catherine and Elizabeth Hughes. Though in official life Hughes has been known as a hard worker, in private pri-vate life he is buoyant, fond of books of all kinds, music and golf, besides being a mountain climber who has been over most of Switzerland on foot. Charles Warren Fairbanks, who was vice-president during the administra. tion of Theodore Roosevelt, was not a candidate for the vice-presidency, but has accepted the nomination and sent the following telegram to Mr. Hughes: "I most heartily congratulate you upon your selection as the leader of the Republican party in the present national contest. Friends of the nominee say he is fired with enthusiasm to get into the contest now that the convention has spoken. Members of the Hughes family appeared ap-peared in public Sunday for the first time since the nomination. He and his daughter Miss Catherine left home at 10:30 Sunday morning to walk two miles to the Calvary Baptist church. Their way was blocked by a squad of moving picture men who kept pace with them tor two squares. At the church entrance they were met by Mrs. Hughes and Little Miss Elizabeth Eliza-beth Hughes, who had driven there. The moving picture men had made the family late for services. As they lingered outside the elbsed doors awaiting the end of the invocation, both Mr. and Mrs. Hughes were centers cen-ters of friends, pressing forward to shake hands. Hughes' Creed. In a' declaration of principles Charles Char-les E. Hughes, presidential nominee, said: "I stand for the firm and unflinching maintenance of all the rights of American citizens on land and sea. "In our foreign relations we have suffered incalculably from the wei.k and vaciliiating course which has been taken with regard to Mexico. "I desire to see our diplomacy restored re-stored to its best standards and have these advanced; to have the first ability of the country always at its command here and abroad in diplomatic diplo-matic intercourse; to maintain firmly our rights under international law. "I stand for an Americanism that knows no ulterior purpose; for a patriotism pat-riotism that is single and complete. "I believe in making prompt provision provi-sion to secure absolutely our national security. "I believe in preparedness, not only entirely adequate for our defense, but to the end that in each branch of tha service there may be the utmost efficiency. effi-ciency. "Our preparation must be industrial and economic, as well as military. Our severest tests will come after the war is over. "We must make a fair and wise readjustment re-adjustment of the tariff in accordance with sound protective principles to insure our economic independence and to maintain American standards of living. "I stand for the principle of our civil service laws. In every department depart-ment of government the highest measure meas-ure of efficiency must be insisted upon. Of the candidates before the Republican Re-publican convention, Fairbanks, Root, Weeks, Cummins, Burton and Knox sent telegrams of support and congratulations. con-gratulations. 'Six delegates from Colorado Col-orado who supported Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt assured him of their support. Mr. Hughes replied only to the messages from Mir. Fairbanks, conveying to the vice-presidential nominee his congratulations. con-gratulations. He send word to the newspaper men that he wished to express ex-press through them his appreciation of the flood of congratulatory messages. .:! CHARLES EVANS HUGHES spectacle of ineptitude. Belated efforts have not availed to recover the influence influ-ence and prestige thus unfortunately sacrificed and brave words have been stripped of their force by indecision." Charels Evans Hughes was born in Glens Falls, New York, April 11, 1862, making him four years younger than 'ex-President Roosevelt and six years younger than President Wilson. - His father was a Baptist minister and his mother was a devout woman who shaped his early education with the idea of preparing him for the ministry. min-istry. The family moved to Newark, N. J., when he was a boy and during his young manhood it settled in New York City. Brilliant always as a student, stu-dent, young Hughes was graduated from a New York high school at the head of his class at the age of fifteen. fif-teen. He was graduated from Brown university in 1881, one of the five Phi Beta Kappa honor men of his year. Finally he attended the Columbia uni- Ise candidate, received seven votes. Colonel Roosevelt himself received 18, scattered over several states. The nomination ballot showed this count: Hughes, 940; Roosevelt, 18; Lodge, 7; Dupont, 5; La Fol-lette, Fol-lette, 3; Weeks, 3; absent, 1; total, 987. The ballot for vice-president showed this count: Fairbanks, 863; Burkett, 108; Borah, 8; Burton, 1; Johnson, 1; absent, scattering and not voting, 6; total, 987. Mr. Hughes will be notified of his nomination officially at a date to be fixed later by a committee headed by Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, chairman of the convention. Mr. Fairbanks will be notified by a committee headed by Senator William E. Borah of Idaho. At 2:01 p. m. the convention adjourned. ad-journed. There were expressions of harmony from all the leaders and among the delegates. The delegations delega-tions which on the final ballot had cast votes for others than Mr. Hughes, made statements declaring their loyalty loy-alty to the nominees. 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 two-line letter 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 into his study to tell them of his decision. President Presi-dent Wilson accepted the resignation in a reply almost as brief. Apparently, Mr. Hughes's letter was framed so that the president might be saved the embarrassment of expressing regret or making more than a formal reply. "I hereby resign the office of associate asso-ciate justice of the supreme court of the United States," he wrote. To which the president replied: "I am in receipt of your letter of resignation and feel constrained to 1 CHARLES . W. FAIR-BAfJKS. |
