national exhibit of the way in which a great and free people,
who are believing in themselves every day, can believe in themselves
enough to listen to anybody, to make regular arrangements in Albany and
everywhere as a matter of course for listening to people with whom they
do not agree, without fear and without frothing at the mouth.

Mr. Hughes is as anxious to do anything he can during one lifetime to
discourage Socialism as Henry Cabot Lodge is to discourage Woodrow
Wilson, but the reason that the American people have been glad to have
Charles Evans Hughes as Justice of the Supreme Court, the reason that
they came within three inches of making him President of the United
States is that in an eminent degree he is a man who has made elaborate,
conclusive and habitual arrangements with his own mind for not being
deceived by Charles Evans Hughes, for being a lawyer backwards, for
fighting himself, for stepping up out of being a mere lawyer and sitting
sternly on the Bench of the Supreme Court, against himself.

Of course I am not writing this article to point out to a hundred million
people with this fountain pen of mine dripping in its sins, how superior
I and a hundred million other people are to Henry Cabot Lodge and to the
way for the last six months he is mooning about in his mind and being
internationally fooled about himself. The special point I seek to make is
that as we are all in danger on one subject or another, of breaking out
into millions of Lodges any minute, that we should make the most of our
new national chance of our power as a people just now--just before the
two great national conventions of the parties to which we mostly belong,
to make deliberate and national arrangements to be on our guard against
ourselves, to see to it that we nominate and elect to The White
House,--from whatever walk of life he comes,--a man who will have himself
magnificently in hand, a man who will not trickle off before the people
into his own private temperament, pocket himself up in his own class, or
put down the lid of his own party gently but firmly over his soul--a man
who will be the President of all the people everywhere all the time.

When the members of The Bar Association of the City of New York who
backed Mr. Hughes, were presenting to the world, our slowly enlightened
world, the spectacle of several hundred lawyers rising to the occasion
and being lawyers backwards to themselves, it probably would not be fair