The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-06-19
CORRESPONDENTS CROWDED
HIS OFFICE ALL DAY LONG
Family and Friends Were Also There--Mrs. Taft
Read All Bulletins Roosevelt ExuItant
Over the 0utcome--Sings Praises
OF the Secretary

Washington June Words do
not find themselves at a time like this.
do not deny that I'm very happy"
! This was the response of Secretary
Taft to the request for an expression
of his viows on his nomination for tho
presidency
The sentence did not come easily
Throughout the afternoon proceeding
the announcement of his nomination
the secretary had been laboring under
suppressed nervous tension. The at
mosphere In his office was electric
with excitement Notwithstanding the
great personal interest which he had
In the proceedings at Chicago thou,
sand miles away, Taft did not permit
politics to interfere for a moment
with his transaction of official busL
ness as secretary Of war In intermls.
sions of the receipt of bulletins from
the convention. the secretary Disposed
OF several important departmental
Questions and when his nomination for
the presidency was announced bis
desk practically wss cleared of his
Important official business.
Members OF Family Present.
Throughout the afternoon the pri
yate office Of Taft and the office of his
private secretary, Frederick Carpen-
ter, were throngedd with members Of
his family. intimate personal and cffi.
ial friends. and newspaper men.
Shortly before II O'Clock Taft ar
rived at the War Department She
scanned carefully the bulletins when
had been received from the conven'
tion and distinctly manifested her
pleasure at the result of the action of
the convention regarding the platform
She is a close and accurate observer.
of things political and is one Of the
best advisers the secretary has had
throughout the preliminary campaign
for the presidential nomination.
Mrs. Taft Gets Bulletins.
Mrs. Taft remained in the secre
tary's private office throughout the
afternoon. Accompanying her was
their son, Charlie whose special func
tion 1t was to carry the bulletins re
ceived from the convention to the sec
retary's desk 1t was to Mrs. Taft
ordinarily that he presented the bulle
tins rather than to Taft. and he listen
ed while his mother read the bulletins
to the secretary's assembled guests.
Shortly after oclock-before the
nomination speeches of the presiden
tial candidates had been concluded
Miss Helen Heron Taft, the tecre'
tary's daughter, joined the group in
Taft's private office
Cancels Engagement.
Taft had arranged to visit the war
college with Secretary Root, but at the
asst moment he concluded to wait the
result of the ballot which was about to
be taken in Chicago. by this time
the situation In the secretary's office
had become tense. In the secretary's
private office stood Secretary Taft
surrounded by the members of his
family aud personal and political
friends. In the outer room, with Sec
retary Carpenter were twenty or
thirty Washington correspondents.
As the balloting began in the con
vention the atmosphere in the two
rooms seemed to be surcharged with
excitement Scarcely word was
spoken. Men who ordinarily are not
effected by nervousness hung over the
telegraph instrument as their lives de /
pended upon the words which the
stolid telegraphcr was ticking out on
his typewriter
Good News Received. {
Something weue wrong with the cf (
fetal dispatches The first announce. 4
ment was that Massachusetts, bad cast I
- votes for Taft Then the announce
mcnt from Michigan was made with its
one vote for Cannon At this moment
Secretary Carpenters telephone I
iiugled and William Pannell. Secrc
tary Tait-s personal messenger, re
rciyed a fash from the Associated
Press that Taft had been nominated
The information. conveyed instantly
10 the secretary. created commo-
lion and minute or so afterward a
bulletin from the Associated Press