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Show IT'S 100 TO 1 ON HUGHES IN 1908, SAYS WATTERSON NEW YORK. April 22. Col. Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, arrived here yesterday from Europe. Col. Watterson said that William J. Bryan seemed to be the only man in the running for the Democratic nomination nomina-tion for President. "Mr. Bryan is an individual man with a certain following," he said. "He is not a lawgiver. He may be a law unto himself. him-self. It remains to be seen if the fragments frag-ments of the Democratic party lying around losoe can be united in a new program. pro-gram. "I do not believe President Roosevelt wants a third term for himself. I know he recently stated that if the convention nominated him and adjourned It would have to reconvene, as he would never accept ac-cept another nomination. I am willing to take him at his word." Col. Watterson declared that Gov. Hughes was a force to be reckoned with in Republican politics. "I predicted last June." he said "that Hughes would succeed Roosevelt In the White House. At that time Horace White, Mr. Hughes and I were at Brown university, where the degree of LL. D. was conferred on each, and I told Hughes that while some Republicans might not like him, they would have to select him. He, I believe, will be to the Republican Farty what Tilden was to the Democratic, have In my pocket a ticket in the Paris Mutual's college for 100 to 1 that Hughes will be the next President of the United States." |