Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

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81 am deeply grateful to my friends
of this city and to my really great
friend-the man in the White House.
appreciate the loyalty and unswerving
support accorded to me, and it shall be
my duty to show by my actions and at.
titude that / am not unmindful of the
great honor bestowed upon me-"
These were the words with which Sec
rotary Taft greeted the Commissioners
of the District of Columbia and some
five hundred members of the Univers-
ity Club of this city on the night of his
nomination for the Office of Chief
Magistrate of the nation, as he stood
on the lawn at his home 1903 K Street,
northwest, with Mrs. Taft and his
daughter on his right. The entire
membership of the club, of which Judge
Taft is a member, turned out to do
honor to the Secretary, and augment
ed by an enthusiastic crowd of several
thousand men, women and children,
rent the air with cheers, while fire.
works were exploded on the ground in
front of the club house on the opposite
side of the street, and band played
Hail to the Chief"
Associates of Mr.. Taft in President
Roosevelt's cabinet gave out statements
for publication, expressing their pleas
ure at his nomination and their view
of its significance. Three sentences in
the statement given out by President
Roosevelt, however, voice the sentiment
of them all: 81 do not believe there
could be found in all the country man
so we'll fitted to be President. He is
not only absolutely fearless, absolutely
disinterested and upright, but he has
the widest acquaintance with the ma
tion's needs, without and within, and
the broadcast sympathies with all our
citizens He would be as emphatically
a President OF the plain people as Lin
coin, yet not Lincoln himself would be
freer from the least taint of demagogy,
the least tendency to arouse or appeal
to class hatred of any kind"
Senator Foraker who has been indis-
posed and In Washington for some
time, gave out a statement in which he
said, among other things: 'It is no
longer a question of men but a ques-
ton of parties. In this way Secretary
Taft becomes my candidate for the
DnoeilannY on ~.
stances 1 can probably do but little, yet
| shall do all | can to help elect him.
Republicans will now quit contending
among themselves, and turn all their
guns on the common enemy"
An order has been issued by the Dis
trict Commissioners to the effect that
'every dog in the District of Columbia
shall, for period of six months from
this date, wear a good and substan tial
muzzle, securely put on, so as to pre-
vent it from biting and swapping, and
any dog going at large during said per-
iod without such muzzle shall be taken
up by the pound master and impound-
ed. Washington has undergone quite
''mad dog" scare and in fact is still
in the throes, hence the issuance of the
above edict for the safety OF the irhabi-
tants of the Capitol.
The story sent out from Chicago
which stated that President Roosevelt,
sitting in the White House, heard in
person, with the telephone receiver to
his ear, the cheering which greeted the
mention of his name by Senator Lodge
on Wednesday, has been pronounced
"a fake" by Secretary Loeb. Accord
ing to Secretary Loeb, the only news
received at the White House from Chi
cago is by the Postal Telegraph and
Western Union bulletins.
Secretary of State Root will leave
Washington on Saturday for his home
at Clinton, n. Y, to join the members
of his family who left some time ago.
1t was rumored that the Secretary was
going again to Muldoon's place, near
White Plains, N. Y, to take a course
of physical training, but this has been
denied recently at the Secretary's
office
Mrs. Taft was quite the happiest
woman in Washington on the day of
her husbands nomination though she
was composed. She said they had
made no plans to get away from Wash
ington any particular day and while
they had expected for some time to go
to CINCINNATI in July she did not know
the exact date of their departure.