Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1920 — HOOVER GETS INTO G. O. P. RACE [ARTICLE]

HOOVER GETS INTO G. O. P. RACE

FINALLY CASTS LOT WITH FORCES WITH WHICH HE FORMERLY WAS IDENTIFIED .San Francisco, Cal., March .80. — Herbert Hoover today • telegraphed the Hoover 'Republican Club of California that he would accept the Republican nomination for President “if it is felt that the issues necessitate it and it is demanded of ’■rV “ Mr. Hoover thus settled definitely the question of bis candidacy, which has been agitating the minds of politicians of both the Democratic and Republican parties for several months. When Mr. Hoover’s name was first mentioned in connection with the presidency, nobody seemed to know to which party he .belonged, and the Democrats apparently were angling for him harper than the Republicans. Booms In Many' States. Booms for him have developed with both .parties in several states, and in some his name has appeared on the primary ballots. > Finally. -it developed that Mr. Hoover had been a Progressive-Re-publican, but this did not deter the Democrats from continuing to keep an eye on him, for in Sis public statements Mr. Hoover has gone on record as being more interested in issues than in parties.