Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — Making Himself Clear. [ARTICLE]

Making Himself Clear.

“Now rises the Secretary of the Treasury to complain that I have not said what I would have done after the sinking of the Lusitania. I repeat that the Lusitania would not have been sunk if I had been President.” —Charles Evans Hughes at Youngstown, 0.

The New York World calls attention to the interview of Jim Hemenway when he returned from California the other day and announced that Hughes would carry the State. In answer to this they give a poll of 156 delegates to the California State Federation of Labor. In this poll the candidates stood: Wilson, 145; Hughes, 4; ciaiist, 1; non-committal. 6.