New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-04
PRESIDENT GETS NEWS
WITH RESULT.
Election Returns Receired at the
White House.

yz-eshing+on Nov. 3-The President and Mrs.
Roosevelt reached the White House on their
return from Oyster Bay at 6:33 o'clock this
evening The trip to and from Oyster Bay was
pleasant. and neither the President nor MIS-
Roosevelt was much fatgueo-
The first thing the President did when ne
reached home was to scan the latest election re-
turns. which by the time he arrived at the White
House were coming in at a rapid rate He was
particularly pleased when he read the report
from lis home district in Oyster Bay which
gave both M Taft and Mr.. Hughes substan-
tial majority.
At tn, White House executive offices wires
from the different telegraph companies were in
stalled. and over these the President had the
news at the earliest possible moment One wire
working between the executive Offices and the
White )use proper carried the most important
bulletins while the President was at dinner
A happy party. consisting of Cabinet officers
and their wives and number Of other guests.
was entertained at the White House in the even
ing and heard the news of the election. Later
in the evening as the reports came thick and
fast the President went to his office in the ex-
ecutive building. and there carefully read every
thing of Importance which came over the wires.
President Roosevelt was sangUine of the
wheIu7ing character of Mr.. Tafts victory from
the very earliest bulletins, and told those who
talked with him that his expectations had been
realized He was especially pleased with the
returns from New York Because of the slow
returns from Ohio and Indiana. however. he
withheld an official bulletin, and at 9:15 o'clock
the newspaper men were told to wait d while
longer
The President remained in the private por-
tions of the White House most Of the evening
after dinner. A few personal friends and a
number of women friends Of Mrs Roosevelt ar
rived early and received the returns which
came in duplicate for the executive offices and
the private portions Of the White House. A
brief visit to the executive offices was made by
the President soon after dinner, but he returned
to the White House quickly, as he considered
there was no longer the slightest room for doubt
The unofficial White House view as early as
s o'clock IA the evening was that the fight had
been by large popular and electoral ma
jority, and congratulations began to arrive at
that hour from gond Republican admirers and
friends Of both President Roosevelt and Presi-
dent-elect Taft in all parts Of the country.
At Il 30 O'Clock a Taft and sherman march
ing clubs two hundred strong, paraded up the
drive past the White House and around to the
executive Offices, where they aggregated about
the door. Here they gave three cheers for Taft,
Sherman and Roosevelt. They then asked
whether the President would come out and
make a speech to them. He sent word that he
could not do 50. At that moment Secretary
Garfield, who with other Cabinet officers had
been with the President in his Office. came cut
The leader of The marching club pressed him
into service as the Presidents representative,
and he said a few words to the crowd. He dc
clared that Taft would have in the neighbor-
hood Of 800 electoral votes. ana that the Repub-
iicans had cleaned things uiI from A to 4. The
crowd then marched away without having seen
the President.