Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1918 — Roosevelt Sends Telegram of Congratulations to Hays [ARTICLE]

Roosevelt Sends Telegram of Congratulations to Hays

Three members of the republican national, committe stopped in Indianapolis for a few hours Thursday while returning from the convention at St. Louis for a conference with Will H. Hays, new chairman of the committee. They were John T. King of Connecticut; A. T. Hert, of Kentucky, and James A. Heminway, of Indiana. Senator Boise Penrose, of Pennsylvania, passed through Indianapolis during the afternoon and was joined by Mr. King. Chairman Hays receved hundreds of telgrams of congratulations from Republican leaders in all parts of the country. Among them was one from Colonel Roosevelt, which read: “Your election means more to the country and the Republican party than anything else at this time could have meant.”

Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth also sent a telegram of congratulations. At a luncheon attended by Governor Goodrich and the national committeemen and state republican leaders, Chairman Hays expressed his gratitude for the help of his friends at St. Louis, and reiterated his determination to deal ,on the same terms with all representatives of the party. He declared that he did not believe the national organization should support any candidate for the presidential nominaton. Mr. King asserted the Republican party has the greatest opportunity in its history to go before the country with a strong declaration of Americanism and declared that he favored Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as the next Republican candidate for the presidency.