Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1913 — Will R. Wood May Be A Candidate for Congress. [ARTICLE]

Will R. Wood May Be A Candidate for Congress.

A dispatch from Indianapolis says; Will R. Wood, of Lafayette, is said to have his weather eye on the republican nomination for congress in the Tenth district next year. He has not made any announcement of the fact, but It Is said by sqme of his friends that he contemplates terminating his long service in the state senate and seeking the place oh the congressional ticket. There is also some talk that Edgar D. Crumpacker, of Valparaiso, former congressman of the Tenth, may also be brought out again, hut this has not been confirmed. The Wood candidacy, however, appears to be a fact. Mr. Wood'has been a member of the state senate longer that any other man that ever occupied a place in that body.- For years he has been the republican floor , leader in the senate, and even when the democrats vtere in power, he was one of the parliamentarians on whom the lieutenant governors frequently depended for advice when a knotty parliamentary question came up. He was the chairman of the republican state convention last year which elected delegates-at-large to the Chicago national convention.