Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — Watson to Run Again. [ARTICLE]

Watson to Run Again.

Bloomington, Ind, Nov. 10. —In endeavoring to impress on the students of Indiana university the importance of having an ideal in life a d sticking to it, James E. Watson, at a mass meeting in the gymnasium here today, declared his ambition was to be governor and that he would remain in the fight until he won. “I am going to confide a secret to this crowd,” he said. “Ever since I was six years old I have cherished an ambition to be the governor of the state of Indiana, and I always have believed I will be. I want to serve notice right now to my democratic friends that, though I lost the first heat, I do not expect to give up the whole race. In 1912 1 expect to be a candidate again for the office of governor of the state.” Mr. Watson was here attending a regular mee’ing of the Indiana university board of trustees of which he is a member.