Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — Traveling Men of Indiana Are Boosting For Hughes. [ARTICLE]

Traveling Men of Indiana Are Boosting For Hughes.

That the commercial travelers of Indiana are to be a factor in this campain is evidenced by the fact that the travelers of Indiana are rapidly organizing into a compact body for the support of the republican ticket. Seventeen cities in Indiana have organizations which have endorsed Henry A. Roberto, republican candidate for senate statistician. Mr. Roberts is spending all of his time at the republican state headquarters at Indianapolis looking after the travelers chibs over the state. Buttons 'have been distributed which bear the inscription, “Travelers G. O. P. League.” It is claimed that IK) per cent of the traveling men of Indiana are wearing these buttons and that they will support Hughes and Fairbanks and the republican state ticket. Traveling men are very enthusiastic in their ta'k for Hughes, which is attributed to the fact that during the first year of the Wilson administration they dere unable to fill their order book pages. The democrats of Indiana have utterly failed in their attempt to organize the commercial travelers.