Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1916 — HUGHES IS READY TO MAKE CAMPAIGN [ARTICLE]

HUGHES IS READY TO MAKE CAMPAIGN

Will Go to New York For Series of Political Conferences With Republican Leaders. Washington, June 11. —Charles E. Hughes will begin his fight for the presidency tomorrow with a series of political conferences in New York eity. His action in hastening to New York, taken in conjunction with the telegram of acceptance to Chairman Harding, is c'onstrued as removing any doubts about his intention tp wage a vigorous campaign from the very start. The nominee plans to be in New York in time to meet the republican leaders returning from the Chicago convention. The chief questions to be discussed now concern the selection of a chairman of the national ’ committee and the nature of the presidential campaign, particularly the part to be palyed by Mr. Hughes himself. Mr. Hughes finds himself quite out of touch with politics and he is turning to his friends in’New York for information and guidance It is expected he will meet former Attorney General Geo. W. Wickersham, long a close friend; Frederick Tanner, chairman of the New York state republican committee; Frank H. Hitchcock, the'unauthorized Hughes boomer at Chicago; Governro Whitman, and others.