Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1916 — RUMOR [ARTICLE]

RUMOR

Hughes Sees New Chance of Victory.

New York, Nov. 14.—Charles E. Hughes was about to offer President Wilson congratulations on his re-elec-tion today, when National Chairman Willcox intervened with a request that * he await the very latest returns from an investigation in California and ether close states. Report had it that Mr. Hughes had all but dictated his good wishes to the president when a rumor was* circulated that an error of 7,000 had been discovered in the California figures, which, if correct, would secure its thirteen electoral votes to the republican nominee.