Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-11-04 | Page 3 | Officials Go Home to Vote

OFFICIALS GO HOME TO VOTE Two Members of 1' resident, Tufts Cabinet Fail lo Get on Register. By International News Service. WASHINGTON. Nov. 3. President Taft has loot two of the votes that were to be. cast for him. Secretaries Nagel nd Plshcr did not register in St. Louis and Chicago respectively, because Mr. Nagci was away campaigning on registration regis-tration day. and Secretary Fisher on his Hawaiian trip. Secretary Nngol is firmly firm-ly convinced, however, that the address he delivered that dny more lhan made up in vote gainrd for his own vote lost. Mr. Nagcl and all the other members of the cabinet will be out of the city by tomorrow evening, save Secretary Fisher, who will "sit on the lid Tuesday. "Sitting on the lid'' Is an Impressive pounding phrase, but. as n matter of fact, no cabinet officer can do anything any-thing mora because ho Ik "or. the lid" than if the president and advisers of the chief executive were In the city. Secretary Knox will vote in Pittsburg; Secretary Wilson at his homo In Trncr. Ia., and Secretary Meyer will drop his ballot In the box nt Boston. Secretary Stimcon and Attorney General Wlcker-sham Wlcker-sham will vote for Taft and Hedges In New Tork city. Huntlncton Wilson, assistant as-sistant secretary of state, will vote In Chicago, and the assistant secretary of the navy, Beckman Wlnthrop. will vote agaluHt Roosevelt, presumably in the Oyster Bay district.