Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1912 — TAFT HEARS THE NEWS [ARTICLE]

TAFT HEARS THE NEWS

Receives Intelligence of Democratic Victory at Brother’s Home. 1 Cincinnati, 0., Nov. 6. President Taft received news of his defeat at the home of his brother, C. P. Taft, on Pike street, shortly before dinner. A telegraph office was set up in one of the rooms of the mansion and as soon as the wires were opened at 6 o’clock bulletins telling of Governor Wilson’s election and the Democratic landslide began pouring over the wires in rapid succession. With the president were his brother, C. P. Taft, and Mrs. C. P. Taft, Mrs. Louise Taft, Major Thomas L. Rhodes, the president’s military aid, wnfl several personal friends.