Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1916 — HUGHES STIRS BUCKEYE VOTERS [ARTICLE]

HUGHES STIRS BUCKEYE VOTERS

Speaks to 25,000 Voters and Gave His Campaign a Great Shove Forward In Ohio.

Charles E. Hughes gave his campaign a great shove forward when he spoke in Ohio Monday before 25,000 persons, reviewed a republican parade of 10,000 marchers, shook hands with all comers, and infused the state leaders *with something of his own energy and confidence. When Senator Warren G. Harding, Frank B. Willis and Myron T. Herrick shook hands with ilr. Hughes they pledgdd the state to him by a plurality of 100,000, guaranteeing that Ohio is on the way to roll up an old time McKinley and Roosevelt republican vote. Mr. Hughes made four speeches in Dayton, addressing 25,000 during the day. Dayton is a democratic stronghold, but there was no mistaking the sincerity of the welcome or the ring of enthusiasm with which the city received Mr. Hughes. A very old woman managed to squirm forward through the press on one of the occasions when the parade came to a full stop. “I wan’t you to be president,” she said, “bee: use you are for the plain people.” “Madam,” said the. nominee, “that is one big reason why I want to be president, that is why I am back in politics.”