Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — HUGHES ELECTOR WITHDRAWS. [ARTICLE]

HUGHES ELECTOR WITHDRAWS.

West Virginian Unable to Find Reason for Change at Washington. Charleston, W. Va., Oct. 24.—J. W. Dawson of Charleston, a Kanawa valley operator and business man, in a letter to State Chairman Joseph H. Gaines, of the Republican state committee, asked his name as a Hughes elector-at-large be withdrawn from the Republican ticket. Dawson, in his letter of resignation, says he has read the public addresses of Charles E. Hughes, and in them he can find no good reason why the administration at Washington should be changed. Regardless of the individuality of the Republican nominee, the retiring Republican elector says a vote for Hughes would be assisting to turn over the United States and the destines of 100,000,000 people to the “Old Guard, dominated and controlled absolutely by such men as Barnes, Penrose, Crane and Smoot, and I will never be a party to such treachery to our country.”