The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-27
TAFT GETS BACK
TO EARTH AGAIN
After Strenuous Week at Yale
the Secretary Takes Up
Politics.
SEES BOOKER WASHINGTON
WILL DELIVER ADDRESS TO NE
GROES DURING CAMPAIGN.

New York. June 26.-Secretary Taft
has passed from pleasure to politics.
The transition, inevitable in a way,
was really not distasteful 70 him. Dur
Ing the funmaking of commencement
week AT Yale he had a pretty siren
uous time. He really is greatly ia
tigued The change, therefore. from
purely personal to purely political af-
fairs was in the nature of a recrea-
ton.
The change came between New Ha-
Ven, Conn, and New York city. After
bidding farewell at New Haven TO
some OF his oldest friends he boarded
the 1851 p. IN. New York. New Haven
q Hartford train for New York. The
trip was quite uneventful. After read
ing for a time the secretary chatted
incidentally with one OF two acquaint-
ances whom he met He was amaze
cOmpanied except by a newspaper
friend. Embracing the opportunity 20
obtain a little rest on the trip he
dropped 10 sleep in his chair, and was
not awakened until he reached the
Grand Central station. There he was
met by James Williams, jr., a MEM
Der OF his political STAFF in Washing
ton, who accompanied him to the Man
haitian hotel.
Cordial Greeting.
As the secretary left the station for
the street he vas given d cordial greet
ing by the hundreds of people who
had assembled TO see him. Once more
he was "a presidential candidate and
not merely the Pill" Taft of Yale. For
four days il has been Bill, Bill, Bill"
Tonight II was once more. MIR. Secre-
tary." and he is being greeted not
as the standard bearer of a great po-
litical party. The secretary was driven
directly from the station 10 the Man
haitian. where apartments for him had
been reserved. After greeting a num-
be- of people who were in the hotel
lobby who desired To pay their respects
TO him, the secretary went TO his
apartments. There he received a few
other friends while he was preparing
for dinner.
Dinner at the ST. Regis.
Shortly after O'Clock, accompanied
by Jacob q. Schmidlapp of Cincinnati,
he left the hotel for the St. Regis,
where he dined as the guest of Mr..
Schmidlapp. II had been arranged thar
Ex-Governor Luke r. Wright, who is
succeeding Mr. Taft as secretary OF
war next Wednesday. and General
I
Of insular affairs of the war depart
meut. should be guests at the dinner,
but they did not arrive in time. Those
who attended the dinner. besides Sec
rotary Taft and Mr. Schmldlapp. We're
A =. Coffin. head OF the General Flee
trio company and Ralph Peters, presi-
dent of the Long Island Railway COM
pany. Both are old friends of SecTe-
tary Taft The dinner was practically
nd
litical significance. Al its conclusion
the party had an automobile ride about
the city. II was 1920 O'Clock when the
secretary reached the hotel. Politicians
We're buzzing about the lobby like
bees. The secretary greeted all friends
with cordially, but begged 10 be eN-
Cused from any extended conferences
tonight. Among those who paid their
respects To him was John Hays Ham
mond. His conversation with MIR. Taft
was purely personal
Meeting With Booker Washington.
soon after the secretary reached his
apartments he had a conference with
President Booker r. Washington of the
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Mr..
washington came to New York 10 at
tend a meeting of the board Of trustees
of the institution He asked Mr.. Taft
during the approaching campaign par
ticularly 10 the negroes of America. No
definite conclusion was reached, but il
is not unlikely that al least one adj
dress of the kind indicated may be de-
livered by Secretary Taft before the
close of the campaign.
Political Conference.
Governor Luke Wright arrived al the
Manhattan shortly after s O'Clock di-
rectly from his home at Memphis,
Tenn. A few minutes afterward Gen
eral Edward arrived from Washing
ton, accompanied by Frank b. Kellogg,
Republican national committeeman
for Minnesota, and special counsel of
the United States in the proceedings
against the Standard oil company. He
will go to Oyster Bay tomorrow 10
have a conference with President
Roosevelt. although he is not directly
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