Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1899 — HOBART TO RETIRE. [ARTICLE]

HOBART TO RETIRE.

Vice President Will Not Be a Candidate in 1900. On account of physical incapacity Vice. President Hobart will not be a candidate for renomination next year. It is stated that he will soon retire from official life, The positive retirement of Hobart naturally excites interest as to who will succeed him. Three names are talked of at present. Gov. Roosevelt, New York, is mentioned. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is also looked upon as a favorite candidate. A Chicago paper the qther day said: “Western Republican Congressmen are nearly a unit for thejdea of selecting the vice-presidential candidate from the region west of the Mississippi river. It leaked out that during Congressman Henderson’s stay in Chicago t!he question of selecting a running mate for the President was discussed quite as fully as the speakership contest. Senators Davis of Minnesota, Thurston of Nebraska, Wolcott of Colorado and ex-Senator Manderson of Nebraska have been discussed in a tentative way.”