Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1916 — WALKAWAY FOR HUGHES LEADERS DECLARE [ARTICLE]

WALKAWAY FOR HUGHES LEADERS DECLARE

Overwhelming Evidence Forecasts Nomination of the Justice On Every Ballot.

More political leaders are predicting the nomination of Justice Hughes than at any time since the republican national convention began to assemble. They declare that unless the accumulation of circumstantial evidence fails to reflect the situation in its true light the nomination of the justice will come even sooner than has "been predicted. The men who take this view are practical politicians who do not make estimates unless they are based upon the careful canvass of the delegates. The situation is illustrated best by the fact that conferences between leaders to discuss the availability of the different candidates have ceased, indicating their bejief that a majority of the delegates already have reached a decision to name Justice Hughes. Convention observers find it impossible not to be impressed by the confident predictions of these leaders who say that the Hughes boom now has grown to such formidable proportions that Col. Roosevelt no longer holds the veto, power which until Wednesday afternoon had been conceded to him as a part of the program to bring the republican and progressive parties into accord.

Edward Hoann, Jr., will go to Bluffton, Ind., tomorrow to attend the funeral of William Cline, the DePauvv University student who died as the result of injuries received when he fell from his motorcycle Monday. Cline is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity of DePauw and a fraternity brother of Honan. All the members of the fraternity will attend the funeral. Ed will meet other members of the fraternity from Goodland and Kentland at Remington.