Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1916 — HUGHES MAY ACCEPT; HINT GIVEN BY TAFT [ARTICLE]

HUGHES MAY ACCEPT; HINT GIVEN BY TAFT

Ex-President Comes Out For Justice Following Talk—Politicians Have Become Excited. The Chicago Tribune prints a special from Washington to the effect that Ex-President Taft following a talk with Justice Hughes has come out for the latter for president and hints that Hughes will accept. The report that Mr. Hughes had admitted a willingness -to becomfe the republican candidate for president caused considerable excitement among republican politicians in the capital. It has generally been considered that if Mr. Hughes would accept the nomination he could get it and a recent canvass of the members of congress showed a large' per cent in favor of the ex-govemor of New York. The Chicago Tribune in an exhaustive discussion of the qualifications of the eastern candidates comes to the conclusion that Governor Whitman, of New,. York, possesses more of the qualifications now needed in a president than any of the other candidates, although admitting that the people generally favor Justice Hughes.