The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-06
President Taft In Good Spirits and
Says He VIII Be Glad to go
Back to Private
Life.
WILSON SLEPT LATE
College Students Made Rome Howl
But Election Victor Climbed
Into Bed and Began
Snoring.

[Us!ted Press Leased Wire Service.l /
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 6.--Presi-
dent Taft arose at s o'clock this
morning in better spirits than could
be looked for IN man just defeated
as a candidate for the highest office
in the nation. He showed no signs of
depression and good-naturedly jol1ed
with friends who called on him.
One of these was Fire Marshal
Coleman. who said he regretted the
presidents defeat, but was glad that
his retirement would enable him to
return to live among his fellow towns
| men.
Il am going to be glad to be back
/ among you,' laughed the president,
who will re-enter the practice of law
1 in Cincinnati at the end Of his term.
/ The president and his party will
i leave at 3 p. m. for Washington.
Wilson Slept Well Also.
PRINCETON, N. j., Nov. 6.-That
1 Rooseveltian strenuosity and pecul-
arity are tabooed with the twenty
eighth president of the United States
was made quite evident at the Wood
row Wilson bungalow early today.
Z While admirers OF the president
elect were celebrating his success far
into the morning and While the mem
bers of his family, early astir, were
: fiuttering about the house in undis-
guised ecstacy, the newly chosen chief
executive was peacefully pounding
! his ear" Even the wild rawlings OF
: 1000 college students who celebrated
\ well onto noon were not sufficient te
I break the slumbers of the president
Z. elect. He was the last member of his
a family to appear for breakfast.
! While the joy-wild students were
e parading up and down Nashua street
shortly after midnight and securing
staging through chain Of bonfiref
that Illuminated the entire village
j. Governor Wilson announced that he
n was going to bed, and proposed te
t sleep until noon. He had not yet re
+ ceived the kilograms of congratula
|. tions sent him by President Taft ant
r Colonel Roosevelt, although he knew
8 that they had been sent. Pressed fol
il q statement on the result Of the elec
J. ton, he said before he retired.
n IF l make any statement at all, !
h will be made Wednesday. Thes
e things are too big to discuss off-han,
tonight"
g. The president-eIect's wife and thre
e daughters were astir before 8 o'clocl
II and were busy assisting Waite
y Measday, the governors political SEE
n retary, with the scores Of telegram
le of congratulations pouring in on tn
t. Wilson cottage.
b. Governor Wilson had no defnit
m plans for the day, though it was tn
n early expectation that Chairman M
Combs and some of the campaig
committee from New York would Wis
him during the afternoon. The me-
chief executive has no definite plan
w for the immediate future, though 1t
q expected that, accompanied only b
Mrs. Wilson, he will go to som
= southern resort for rest.
Wilson has indicated he will col
- tinue as governor OF New Jersey up
:. the time of his Inauguration. Fl
= wants to serve through the next Sc
= sion Of the legislature in order
lead in the execution Of reform
~ started under his administration ar
- he cannot afford to resign for flna
cial reasons.
Faculty and students at Princetc
! gave no evidences OF nearing the er
a. of their celebration during the ear
us hours of the day. Counting his II
ay der-graduate days Wilson has live
uy here in close connection with Il
IN university for twenty-seven year
dy The university feels as If It had
proprietary interest in him, especi;
ly as his election typified q victo
om over Yale and Harvard as represer
ext ed by President Taft and Colon
Roosevelt The feeling here today
much the same as though Princet'
had beaten Yale and Harvard CO
h'r bined In football contest.
ain Governor Wilson had breakfa
ain about 10 o'clock and then received
/ delegation of Princeton professc
and their wives who called to cc
graduate him on his election. Duri
the morning Henry Morgenthau
New York, the campaign treasur
4. sent the candidate twenty-five pou