New-York tribune., 1908-10-19
Mr.. TAFT SPENDS DAY
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
T5LKS WITH PRESIDENT
IND PARTY LEADERS.
rrnresses Pleasure Ouer Southern
TrfD and Confidence OF
His Election.
lrron N. tribune Bureau. J

-,-...;reton. oct 1S.-The Republican Presi-
..,+isr candidate arrived in Washington early
-. morning. and was driven from his speclai
= ~ the White House in time for breakfast.
..---sniea by the president. Mr.. Taft at
80 ,re Unitarian Church where he has been
: she ha bit of worshipping, and returned TO the
-4-ite House for luncheon The other guests
=, serretar1 Root. Senator Knox and Justice
,toos, Later in the afternoon General Corbin
o.-ne In. and At dinner this evening Secretary
C---4s1d and Others were fellow guests with Mr.
Taft
A. $50 T m. hv appointment. Mr. Tart met
-. ,e,rs,srer correspondents Of Washington in
-, Fss, Room AT the White House. With most
- +ba-, he was personally acquainted and
-,srv of them he greeted by their first names.
.,o,,e he said I haven't much to tell YOU
-, soc an here. I have had two meals III
=. White House and I expect 70 have another.
NJ Ta4t declined to go into details concerning
his interview with the President
~ Taft said laughinsly TO his callers that
os course be had not talked politics, but had
merely INDUCED III "reminiscences of old times
-rben he added that while the conversation had
deaf verv largely with politics II had been
r,ra1v an Informal chat. ranging over many
s,,rierts and numerous phases of the political
situation. that il had been so disconu -cted that
a, v,,,I5. really be difficult to describe il if he
would.
asked What view the President took of the po-
Ii,i,al situation. Mr.. Taft s. thoughtfulIy.
You nay say the President Is not q pessimist."
He also said that personally he was quite con-
tdeut a1 his own election
Apropos Of his Southern trip. Mr. Taft said
thai he v-ss delighted that he had made it, that
# had been a really delightful experience, that
10 one could have been treated with greater
r7ond tic rnagnifi- mt audience and the coTdi-
slHv Of the reception he had received there.
we're most gratifying. Asked if he expected to
carr Virginia North Carolina OF Tennessee, he
tsi6 that ne was making no predictions on the
.ote Of the southern states. hut that he was
convinced that his trip had amply demonstrated
that 1hc South was tillable ground for the Re
rublicar plough. and that the seed he had sown
his vear would bc certain TO bear fruit four
years hence.
NJ. Taft declared II 70 he his desire to make
onl.- one speech p day in New York state next
reek H sGrlittod that he would bc somewhat
2. the n7ercy of "merciless local committees. -
aBt said that in view of the largo auditor3ums
IN which h -ould be expected u speak each
ersnirg II vuq.l5 reaff!- he necessary to save his
yodos as much IS possible and that Rs ne vas
to-spend six days IN the Empire State, he trust
instead Of fifteen OF sixteen = DAY
After G rull day at the White House the Re
publican 5audidat- said farewell u the Presi-
cent and Mrs. Roosevelt, and went 10 the Union
Station. where he boarded the special train
which left there shortly after midnight for New
ARK. y. =
The schedule Of the Taft special train for to-
r}orro7. viii bc modified 50 as to cut out Cam
Gen entirely and 10 prolone the stay ct New arr
- practically four hours from : TO JOS q m
Five minute stops VIII he made at Railway and
New Brunswick. and hours stop at Tren-
Ton. Baltimore viii be reached about > p. m.
somewhat later than provided in the original
scheme The proposed stop at Cumberland Md
70 be made on Tuesday. has also been mate
Rally cUrtaiIed and the stop at MartinsburS
". Va, considerably heightened
g1anS =. Hitchcock. chairman Of the Repub-
acen National Committee VIII take breakfast
With Mr.. Taft TO- morrow morning at Newark.