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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1908
Page
8
An old newspaper ad extols The Model Restaurant The Old Standby offering a regular dinner for 25 cents with faultless cooking and rapid courteous service. It promises popular prices and invites patrons to dine without hunger.
Cincinnati reports Taft retired early and woke to a pile of congratulatory telegrams. Later he will deliver the principal address at the exercises as president elect.
Early results indicate Hughes leads in a surprising win while Johnson appears set for North Dakota over Burke. Michigan Governor Wagner trails L Theamsen amid strong Republican holds in Wisconsin and South Dakota. Indiana and Nebraska show close contests with Marshall carrying Indiana as Taft-supporting voters prevail elsewhere. Shallenberger faces a tight Nebraska race as do Harman and Harris in Ohio.
The article notes a leader laying cornerstone efforts for a public school, addressing a national missionary meeting, speaking at the Commercial club banquet in his honor, and traveling with his wife to Hot Springs for several weeks. Returns show a plurality of 86,060 for Tat in Ontario.
Washington reports anticipate Taft will announce his first cabinet within days. Nominations suggested include Meyer for secretary of state, Loeb for treasury, Newberry for navy, Hitchcock for postmaster general, Gifford Pinchot for agriculture, and Kelso for attorney general.
National committeeman Simon notes Chicago’s socialist pledge of 16000 shows a 12000 drop from 1904 figures. He attributes the fall to organizing efforts failing to enlist 15 members and predicts a 50 percent nationwide increase in socialist votes despite declines in industrial centers. He says Taft’s election will not bring business slumps.
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