Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1916 — A Pin-Headed Attack On Hughes. [ARTICLE]

A Pin-Headed Attack On Hughes.

The straits to which the democratic campaign orators are reduced is nowhere so well illustrated as in their boomerang concerning Mr. Hughes as a voter. They ask why it is that he has- not registered and voted in the elections in recent years. They know the answer, but dishonestly leave to their hearers the impression that Mr. Hughes has not been sufficiently patriotic and interested in public affairs to take the trouble to go to the polls. They know, of course, that he was appointed to the United States supreme court more than six years ago; that he left his old home in New York and tcok up his residence in Washington. They also know' that no one whose Ivome lsTn Was-hington can vote in. our elections. Blit they say nothing about that in the hope of deceiving those they are trying to win to the Wilson standard. When Mr. Hughes took oath ,as justice of the supreme court, he did so with no reservations. He was riot to be a New York justice, but to serve for all the country. He gave up his residence in New York state and went to Washington to live and to serve all the people. And when sent back to Washington, as president, he may be depended upon to be the chief executive of the United States and not of any state or section.