The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-27
Big Bill of '78 Transformed in Two Hour Ride to MT. Sec retary, Presidential
 Candidate.
FATIGUED WITH WEEK HERE
Charles F. BroolScr Attends Private Dinner to Secretary at St. Regis Booker Washington
 Caller.

New York, June 26,-- Secretary Taft has passed from pleasure to poli- ties. The transition, inevitable In way, was really not distastcful to the secretary, During the nmaking of commencement week at Yale he has had pretty strenuous time, He really is greatly fatigued. The change. therefore from purely person al to purely political affairs, was in the nature of q recreation.
 The change came between New Ha- ven, Conn, and New York city. After bidding farewell at New Haven to some of his lifelong personal friends, the war secretary boarded the 3:51 D. m. train for New York. He was un- accompanied except by q newspaper friend. Embracing the opportunity to obtain little rest on the trip, Secre- tary Taft dropped to sleep in his chair and was not awakened until the train had pulled into the Grand Central station.
 At the station he was met by James T. Williams, ir, a member of his political staff in Washington, who ac- companied him to the Manhattan ho tel As the secretary passed from the station to the street he was given q cordial greeting by the hundreds of people who had assembled to see him. once more he was a presidential can didate, and not merely the "Bill' Taft of Yale. For four days it has been "Bill, Bill, Bill" Tonight 1t once more is Mir. Secretary and he Is being greeted not merely in his personality, but as the standard bearer of great political party The secretary entered cab at the station entrance and was driven directly to the Manhattan, where apartments for him had been reserved One of the first men to greet him, as he entered the hotel was Senator N. B. Scott of West Virginia, who presented Mrs. Scott to him. The senator Is a member of the republican national committee, and made an en- gagement to meet the secretary later in the evening. Representative Will liam & Lowering of Massachusetts, greeted the secretary cordially and chatted with him for several minutes. Immediately afterward the secretary was joined by Jacob B. Schimdlapp president of the Union Trust Co. of Cincinnati, and one of the lifelong friends of Mir. Taft After greeting a number of people in the hotel lobby who desired to pay their respects to him, the secretary went to his apart ments. There he received few other al. T ha t.it Co Y dinner.
 Shortly after o'clock, accompanied by MT. schmidlapp, he left the hotel to go to the St Regis where he dined as the guest of MT. schmdlapp. It had been arranged that Governor Luke E Wright, who Is to succeed Mir. Taft as secretary of var next Wednesday, and Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs of the war de- partment, should be guests at the din ner, but they did not arrive in time Those who attended the dinner besides MT Taft and Mir. Schmidlapp, were A. C. Coffin, head of the General Electric Co.,, Ralph Peters. president of the Long Island Railroad Co.,, and Charles F. Brooer of Ansonia, Conn. national committeeman from that state The two former are old Cincinnati friends of Secretary Taft. The dinner was purely an informal function. At its conclusion the party entered an auto mobile and was driven up Fifth avenue to Central Park; thence down River side Drive to Broadway, through tho "white light dlstrict'-the theater sec. tion-and thence to the Manhattan ho- tel. It was 1920 o'clock when the sec. retary reached the hotel Politicians the lobby like bees The secretary had only one or two engagements to mee and while he greeted all of his friends and acuuantances with cordiality, he begged to be excused from any extend ed conferences tonight. Among those who paid their respects to him wat John Hays Hammond who was men. toned prominently in connection witt the yice-presidential nomination al Chicago His conversation with MT Taft was purely personal Soon aftel the secretary reached his apartments he had a conference with Professor Booker T. Washington the president O the Tuskegee Institute, who sought tt induce MT. Taft to deliver at least two formal addresses in the approaching campaign particularly to the negroes O America. It is not unlikely that al least one address of the kind indicated may be delivered by Secretary Taf before the close of the campaign
 Professor Washington is an enthusi astic admirer of MT. Taft, and believe, the negro vote will go largely to tn, ' secretary. Governor Luke E. Wrigh arrived at the Manhattan hotel shortly after 8 o'clock directly from his hom, at Memphis, Tenn. He came here ex pressly to attend the conference a oyster Bay tomorrow with Presiden Roosevelt A few minutes afterWart Gen. Edwards arrived from Washing ton. accompanied by Frank B, Kellogg republican national committeeman fol Minnesota and special counsel of thu United States in the proceedings { against the Standard oil company. MT . Kellogg was member of the platform 1 committee at the Chicago convention He will go to Oyster Bay tomorrow t have a conference with the President although he is not directly connected with the party of Secretary Taft
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