Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1916 — Albert J. Beveridge Comes Out For Hughes. [ARTICLE]

Albert J. Beveridge Comes Out For Hughes.

Albert J. Beveridge, who was the progressive nominee for U. S. senator from Indiana during the 1914 campaign, has announced his intention to support the republican party during the present campaign. After a threehour conference with Charies Evans Hughes, republican nominee for the prsidency, Mr. Beveridge gave out the follownig statement: "The progressive party as an organized party no longer exists. People have many opinions as to the causes that produced this condition, but it is useless to discuss them, for the fact itself stares us in the face.

“Therefore progressives must either refrain from voting for president at all or support the candidate of some other partv. I shall vote for Mr. Hughes. In taking this stand I do not make nor imply any criticism of progressives who may decide differently. I personally know large numbers of these men and women and hold them in the highest regard and esteeem. Whatever they individually determine to do will be the result of their mature judgment arrived at conscientiously. “I have known Mr. Hughes for several years and admire his ability, integrity and courage. He is, above all, a straightforward man, trustworthy and dependable. He means what he says and says what he means. I trurt him, like him, am his friend and shall support him. ■_ “The work on which I am engaged, the writing of the life of Chief Justice Marshall, has absolutely prevented all political activity on my part for the lart eighteen months; in case the demands of this work are such as to permit me to take any part in the campaign, I shall give my reasons on the stump for my conviction that the welfare of the country demands the election of Mr. Hughes.”