The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-03
GREAT JOY IN
SEAC|RT HOME
OVER T|D|NCS
Thousands of Friends Hurry
to "New Jersey White
House" to Extend Their
Congratulations.
DAUGHTER is FIRST
TO BEGIN CAMPAIGN
Pins Wilson Buttons on Visi-
tors; Governor Expresses
Thanks, and Everybody
Is Extremely Happy.

~ EAGIRT. n. j., July Twenty
newspaper reporters sitting coat"
less and hatless on the lawn Of
New Jerseys "little White
house" this afternoon, saw An operator
come out OF the telegraph tent with
yellow blank in his hand. He stood for
moment in silhouette against the
canvas background and read,
"Wilson is nominated
When he looked up, twenty chairs
weer rocking vacantly in the breeze,
and the twenty men who had faced ham
moment before were half hundred
feet away, scampering in struggling
line for a spot on the governor 3 porch,
where a short timo before tall, thin
man in q gray suit had been sitting.
The chair where he had sat was
empty and they burst into the parlor
door.
"Mr. President,' they shouted with
one voice, awe congratulate you"
They found the man they sought when
his life as NOMINEE OF the Democratic
party was less than a minute old. He
| was laughing and chatting with his wife
and daughters.
Appreciates Honor.
The news, he said had come moment
before over the long distance telephone
after days of anxious waiting, and the
few seconds he had spent with his fam
ity were his first real relaxation during
the week.
HThe honor is as great as can come
to any man by the nomination OF
party the nominee said as the group
stood attentively by, especially in the
circumstances, and I hope I appreciate
Il at its true value; but just at this
moment I feel the tremendous RESPONSE
hilitv IL involves even more than / feel
the honor. I hope with all my heart
the party will never have reason to re-
gret it,
The governor was allowed only a
brief respite before there poured In
deluge of callers who had hung about
+bs tickers and bulletin boards for
seven days. They streamed by every
road and pathway to tho white cot
tape. swarmed over the lawn, climbed
on the porch, perched themselves on
the brass cannon guarding the entrance
on the knoll near by, on the fence
nnvwhere there was room to sit, and
cheered again and again.
Friends Enthusiastic.
Between bursts Of applause they
called him Woodrow" and "gover-
nor" and Wilson," but most of all
they hailed him as "the next presi-
dent Of the United States" A thou
sand yards away a company Of militia
on the rife range peppored away at
long lines Of targets backing on the
sea. Some one telephoned the club
house and the firing ceased, Down the
twisted roadway there raced group
Of automobiles. AS they drew up in
front of the governors cottage. half
a dozen men jumped from ono and ran
with a fash of bunting under their
arms to lofty flag pole, and r. Sec
ond later forty-foot flag was rippling
from the top in the breeze.
"Thrce cheers for the next presi-
dent" shouted a lusty-lunged enthu-
siast, and the crowd gave them with
a will. The governor removed HIS soft
brown hat, bowed and said:
Gentlemen, I thank You from my
hoart-''
Farther yet down tho road-a mile,
they said, though it seemed Ike two
brass band of fifty pieces lay under
cover awaiting a signal. They had
boon waiting there two days, practicing
in the evenings on "IIail to the Chief
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