Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1914 — Fred A Sims Not a Candidate for Re-Election. [ARTICLE]

Fred A Sims Not a Candidate for Re-Election.

Indianapolis, Jan. 16—Fred A Sims, republican state chairman, has definitely announced that he will not be a candidate for re-elec-tion as state chairman. There has been a good deal of Jon as to whether he would accept the place another time. He will devote his entire time to his private business. The only two men talked of now for state chairman are William H. Hays, of Sullivan, second district chairman, and John H. Bryson, of Brazil, fifth district ehairman. Whether there will be any more than these two men in the race is not known just now. Neither of them has made any announcement that he is a candidate, however. They are talked of and neither of them has done anything to put a stop to the talk. This has been taken by their friehds to mean that either one would accept if the place was given to him. The state chairman will be eleceed at the reorganization meeting of the state committee, which will be held here Feb. 12, in connection with , the state-wide republican love feast.