Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1908 — Asked to Be Illinois Candidate. [ARTICLE]

Asked to Be Illinois Candidate.

San Francisco. Mar. 26. —William Kent of Kentfield, Marin county, the millionaire who has just given a valuable tract of land with a forest ol redwoods to the government for a na tional park, announced here that has received many letters from Chi cago friends asking him to become Republican candidate for United States senator in Illinois.