November 05, 1912
Hon. Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, N.J.
I cordially congratulate you on your election, and extend to you my best wishes for a successful Administration.
WILLIAM H. TAFT.
Source: "Taft Owning Defeat, Calls to Deserters," New York Times, November 6, 1912, p. 5.
William Howard Taft, Telegram to Woodrow Wilson Conceding the Presidential Election Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/345976