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In recent years the conduct of foreign affairs has proved of utmost concern to every household in the Nation, and in the years immediately ahead of us there will be further proof that the Department over which the Secretary of State presides has in its keeping the welfare of the Nation as no other department has. Moreover, in one sense the Secretary of State is a second VicePresident. He is the assistant conductor of the Governmental orchestra, the vicechairman of the Governmental Board of Directors. For this, one of the most important governmental positions of the world, far exceeding in power and influence many a throne, Mr. Harding has selected one of the most eminent of American public men, Charles Evans Hughes. There are few men in American public life as well known in the United States or better known abroad than he. He has been Governor of the most populous and the richest of the States, New York; he has been a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he has been a candidate of one of the two principal parties for the Presidency and was barely defeated; he has been one of the Nationally acknowledged leaders of the American bar; he has been an investigator whose great legal ability, intelligence, and fearlessness have made him the reliance of friends of honesty in government and business and a terror to crooks and self-seeking politicians and incompetent officials, from the time of the insurance investigation over fifteen years ago to the investigation during the war into the aircraft situation. Politically he has made enemies. Some of them, including Mr. Hearst, whose attacks upon him assisted greatly in early establishing his reputation, are to his credit. He has many admirers, but his career has not been such as to create for him a large body of political friends and adherents. The fact that he left the Governorship of New York in the midst of a political fight in order to take his seat upon the Supreme Bench, not to leave it again until he emerged as a Presidential candidate, saved him alike MARCH 2, 1921 from political animosities and political attachments. His Presidential candidacy was so nearly successful as to leave him with a considerable political prestige. In the factional or party sense he has not been a Progressive, but he has been identified with distinctly progressive measures. He has been a severe critic of certain features of the Wilson Administration, and in particular of certain features of the League of Nations as Mr. Wilson advocated it. On the other hand, he is CHARLES E. HUGHES not opposed to a League in principle and is strongly an advocate of establishing and developing international relations on the basis of the law. The selection of Mr. Hughes as Secretary of State will be generally recognized, we believe, as appropriate. He comes to the office with an international reputation and with a great and invaluable measure of public respect. He will encounter the opposition and distrust of some of those, like Senator Johnson, who have been identified with the Progressive wing of the Republican party, because he has disappointed them as a politician and because they have felt that he was too friendly to the ideal of the League of Nations. His success in the Department of State, however, will depend less upon his ability to reconcile his political opponents than upon his ability to work with his chief and with his associates. Circumstances and events are offering him the opportunity of becoming one of the greatest American Secretaries of State. MR. BRYAN'S OPINIONS HE views of Mr. William Jennings Bryan are sometimes purely his own and sometimes they reflect widely held opinions, especially in the Middle West. Mr. Bryan has just issued a statement outlining his suggestions for a National legislative programme for the proposed reorganization of the Democratic party. The programme contains twenty-two planks. Some of them will meet with little, if any, opposition; as, for instance, the arbitration of international disputes, the inauguration of a new President and the assembling of a new Congress in the January following the November elections; the fearless enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment; riddance to the profiteer; a liberal provision for the soldiers and sailors who made sacrifices in the world war; official investigation of labor disputes; the prohibition of gambling in foodstuffs; the reorganization of the executive. departments at Washington; and a reduction of taxes, showing consideration for those least able to pay. Most of these, however; are nothing more than pious wishes. Nobody advocates profiteering, for example, or gambling in foodstuffs. It is not enough to denounce an abuse; it is necessary to define it, if it is to be abolished, and then provide a practicable and reasonable measure to bring it to an end without creating greater evils in the process. On the other hand, most people will, we think, oppose some of the planksfor instance, Mr. Bryan's denunciation of military training in time of peace, his upholding of the excess profits tax, his opposition to a sales tax, and the repetition of his plea for a guaranty of bank deposits. Some of the planks are at least questionable, such as those providing for a formal assembly to do something which probably can best be done informally, namely, to discuss disarmament; those providing for a National bulletin "under the fair and equitable control of the two leading parties to furnish information as to political issues;" and for all necessary monopolies to be taken over by the National, State, and municipal Governments. 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