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Show S3r! WASHINGTON, April 16. Senator Howard Sutherland, of West Virginia, ( tonight announced his candidacy for, the Republican presidential nomina- tlon. ! "If the voters ot West Virginia shall .express their preferenco for me In the j primary," his statement said, "and thus instruct the delegates from the-' sUite, L shall expect, and will assume that the delegates thus selected wll imakf! an honest, pffnrl in Rpcurs m nomination. I "If my nomination shall be found tp .be impracticable, thoy will be absolute ly free to vote for the candidate most likely to meet all the conditions and Insure success at tho polls. I -want to j see the most available man nominated "As to platform, I am in favor of the ' convention framing ii I "I favor strongly the appointment of accablnet which shall be composed of I the ablest men tp be found In the par-1 ty, who shall serve as a board of directors di-rectors rather than as a board of manikins mani-kins and clerks. "I am as opposed to a ruthless mil-, mil-, itarlstlc brand of politics as I am to a . militaristic form of government. It r should not, and I believe will not, be 3 pcfsiblo for any group of men to force the nomination of any man for th. presidency by the Inordinate expendi- ture of. money. If our party shall fail it wille Biich means as these." |