The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-27
BOOKER AND TAFT
THEY HOLD CONFERENCE IN NEW
 YORK HOTEL,
The AIabama Negro Asked BEr. Taft to Deliver Two Formal Addresses to Negroes During Cam
 paigm.


 New York 5ans. ze.--encretary Taft has passed from pleasure to politics. The transformation inevitable in,a way. was really not distastefuI to him. Dur ing the fun-making of commencement week at Yale, he has had a pretty strenuous time. He really is greatly fatigued. The change therefore. from purely personal to purely political af- fairs was in the anture of a recrea- ton.
 The change came between New Ha- ven Connl, and New York City. After bidding farewell at New Haven to Bgme of his oldest friends. heboarded the 3;6l p. m. New York. New Haven, and Hartford train for New York.
 He was met here by James T. Will liamsse IT., a member of his political stan in Washington, who accompanied him to the Manhattan Hotel.
 E As the secretary left the station for the street, he was given a cordial greeting by the hundreds of people who had assembled to see him. Once more he was a presidential candidate and not merely the "Bill' Taft of Yale. The secretary was driven directly from the station to the Manhattan Hotel where apartments for him had been reserved
 Shortly after o'clock. accompanied by Jacob Schmidlapp. he left the hotel for the St. Regis where he dined as the guest of Mir. Schmidlapp. It had been arranged that ex-Governor Luke E. Wright. who is to succeed Mir. Taft as secretary of war next Wednesday and General Clarence R. Edwards, chief of {he bureau of insular affairs Of the war department. should be guests at the dinner. but they did not arrive in time Ihose who attended the dinner besides Secretary Taft and Mir. Schfnfdlapp were A. C. cofiin. head of the General Electric Company. Charles F. Brooker national committeeman from Connectf- cut and Ralph Peters president of the Long Island Railroad Company, both old Cincinnati friends of Secretary Taft The dinner was purely an in- formal function.
 At its conclusion the party had an automobile ride about the city.
 Soon after the Secretary reached his apartments he had a conference with President Booker T Washington of the Tuskegee Institute. Alabama, Washington came to New York to at- tend meeting of the Board of Trus- tees of the institute. He asked Mr. Taft to deliver at least two formal ad dresses during the approaching cam paign. particularly to the negroes of America No definite conclusion was ESaShco put tL IS prOD4Ole that one address of the kind indicated may be delivered by Secretary Taft before the close of the campaign.
 Ex-Governor Luke P. Wright arrived at the Manhattan shortly after o'clock. directly from his home at Mem. phis. Tenn A few minutes afterward General Edwards arrived from Wash. ington.
 Tomorrow morning Secretary Taft ex-Governor Wright and General Ed. wards will take an early train for oys. ter Bay to confer with President Roosevelt. The purpose of the confer- ence Is to discuss questions now pend. ing before the War Department and Secretary of War. Politics surely win be discussed. particularly the selection of chairman for the Republican Ma tionaI Convention. Despite the declin- ation of F. H. Hitchcock to allow his name to be considered in connection with the chaIrmanship on account of i'll health. Secretary Taft is in heceipt of hundreds of letters and telegrams urging MT. Hitchcock's selection. Ar thur L.. Vorys of Ohio is being strong ly urged. particularly by Ohioans.
 Among the other names mentioned are those of Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts. Secretary George B. Cor. telyou and Postmaster General von Meyer. Secretary Taft hopes to con clude his talk with President Roose- welt tomorrow in time to return 10 Washington tomorrow night.