Show ILSON ISDN SET TO QUIT W IF F HE LOST MB 16 RACE N V E YORK Sept 18 U The P-The The pf Robert Robirt Lansing warme warme warthe war- war me the me secretary of state disclosed to- to aay that President nt Wilson Vilson would kave resigned immediately in favor favorI I Evans Hughes hi his Ret Rei Re- Re t i publican u lican opponent if he had been defeated in lathe the 1916 election The former secretary in The Thear ivar ar Memoirs of Robert Lansing I published today said that the plan first his own resignation and int the appointment of Hughes as I th the new secretary of state tate Then Wilson and Vice President Marshall would rould uld have resigned d. d leaving the ictor polls in e pos pos- hion slon of the office ollice The The plan Lansing wing wrote was handed to him i the pr president In a a wax scaled tp envelope elope on election day S |