Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-28
TAFT TO RECEIVE
ELECTION FIGURES
WHILE TRAVELLING
November 5 Will Find tho
President on the
Wing.
ELABORATE PLANS LAID
FOR FURNISHING RETURNS.
First Forecast Will Be Read at
COIumbns-Wireless Aid
p Not Invoked.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S,-Returns
Mropl the election of next Tuesday a
| fweek-fraught with interest most I'M
usual for an off year'-win have to
catch President Taft on the wing. The
President viii be travelling all through
election night, returning to Washing
ton from Cincinnati, where he goes TO
exercise his right of suffrage.
Leaving Cincinnati in the early after
noon of election day. after having spent
about six or seven hours in his home
city, the President probably will re-
ceive the first scattering returns show
ing the drift in the Eastern States
when he reaches Columbus shortly be-
Afore 6 o'clock in the evening, central
1tln1e. BY that hour the result in New
= York State, it is expected, can be ac-
curately ~forecasted. In many of the
upstate New York cities and towns
voting machines are used n the re-
turns are promptly and automatically
computed. These early returns from
upstate, with scattering districts IN
Greater New York, should be sufficient
to tell how the tide is running.
Arrangements are being made in the
telegraphic division at the White House
to furnish the President promptly with
all the news available in Washington.
Special wires will be Topped into the
telegraph room at the executive office,
and concise bulletins will be prepared
and forwarded from there to the Presi-
train. So far as known no at
p tempt will be mad to use wireless.
] The train will make q umbe OF I'M
usual stops to pick UP the news for
the President, and, sitting In the OBJ
servation parlor of his private car, Mr..
Taft will be kept almost as intimately
and directly in touch with the situation
as though he were in the White House
al Washington.
Novel PLANS First Trial.
This is the first time. so far as can
he recalled by White House attaches.
that such a novel plan has a to be
devised to inform a President OF i'm
portant election results. Mr.. Roosevelt
used to go to Oyster Bay to vote at all
elections, but he always returned to
washington in time to get the news at
the White House. Cincinnati being
more distant thar Oyster Bay from tho
capital makes it impossible for the
President to get back to Washington
until the morning after b ballots have
been cast. D
Columbus is the first stop scheduled
for the Presidents train. After that 1t
is expected that he will receive re-
turns at Newark, Coshocton,
and Steubenville before reaching Fits
burg shortly after II o'clock, Eastern
time. The Presidents train will stop
ten or fifteen minutes at Pittsburg,
and 1t is believed that at that point
the returns will be sufficient to mol
cate the result in practically all OF
the states where the interesting fights
have been waged. travelling the
greater part of the afternoon and eve
ming through his home State of Ohio,
the President will get the results of the
balloting in that State almost first
hand. Several clerks and stenographers
probably will accompany the President
to handle the returns as they are re-
ceived.
Library Usual Headquarters.
1t usually has been the custom OF
Presidents on election nights to re-
caeive the returns in the library Of the
White House. Cabinet LENDERS and
other public offlci LIS of prominence
who happen to be in the city always
are invited to spend the evening with
the President and share in the jubila-
ton OF victory or the sorrow of defeat,
as the case may be. President Taft is
not likely to have any high officials
with him on the train returning from
Cincinnati Even Secretary Norton,
who goes to Chicago to vote, will not
BIT among those present.