The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-30
TAFT JOINS UNION
kcCEPTs MEaERERsHEp WITH TKEE
 STEAM sHOEELEns.
ywame Tart. Accam Dmm1eA nv Ills WtHn Departs from Cincinnati for Hot spRiMs, vn.s For n
 Brief Rest

Cincinnati, July 2s--Wiiiiam H. Taft, accompanied by Mrs. Taft. left Cincinnati at s:1O o'clock for Hot Springs, Va, where they will remain until the opening of the campaign, the first week in September. At that time MT. Taft will return to this city, where 1t is his present intention to remain until election day,
 The day following the notification ceremonies was one of comparative quiet for the candidate. He had an extended conference with Arthur l.. Vorys; his chief of stan, touching many minor matters In connection with the Ohio situation. He also saw State Chairman Williams and Elmer Dover, Secretary of the National Committee. He was made a member of the Inter national Brotherho ood of Steam shovel and Dredge Men, and late in the after noon went in an automobile to tne home of his father n-law, MT. Heron, where Mrs. Taft spent the entire day. MT. Taft said he felt no ll-enects or his speech -niaking exertions yester- day, but will go back to the mountains with some relish for a month of com parative quiet and golf.
 In accepting membership in the shovelers' organization Mir. Taft had this to say regarding labor;
 T am very glad to have at your hands this expression of confidence in my efforts to do justice. while I am in office. to the work upon which many of your members and I were engaged in one capacity or another. endeavoring to facilitate the greatest constructive work of modern times. am especial ly gratifed because you evince a lib- eral and impartial view in thus ten- derIng me this compliment because in the administration of the work on the Isthmus, I did not always decide In fa- vor of your contentious. But when I decided contrary to the claim which was made by you. tried to give rea- sons which I think by your action to- day, were convincing of my desires to reach a just conclusion.
 ''President Mckinley had the honor to be an honorary member of the brick layers union. President Roosevelt has the honor of being an honorary mem- Der of the iremens' union. With such examples as that with the precedents in my own life In becoming an honor ary member of a number of useful or ganisations. cannot see the slightest objection to my accepting this compn- ment at your hands. which I appreciate highly and which I shall always cher ish as one of the evidences that there are some men whom I have convinced through my official work of my desire to do the square thing for everybody"
 It became known publicly today that the steamer Island Queen. which last night conveyed Judge Taft and 6 dis tlnguished party, including the Notih cation Committee up the Ohio river, was fired upon by an unknown man on q shanty boat moored on the Ohio side of the river opposite Dayton. Ky. Sew eral shots from the spent charge hit, but did not seriously injure Mrs. Charles B. Russell of this city, who was standing with her husband near the radl on the deck directly below where Mir. Taft was at the time stand Ing.
 An investigation of the affair ia be- ing made by the steamboat company.