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Show WILSOH'SPODCiB-' ATTACKEDB! ROOT FORMER SENATOR DECLARES UNITED STATES HAS FORFEITED FORFEIT-ED RESPECT OF THE WORLD. Policy in Mexico, He Declares, Hai Earned Only Contempt, While World Powers Ignore American Amer-ican Threats. New York In a speech criticising he Wilson administration, especially in respect to its foreign policy, former United States Senator Elihu Root, as temporary chairman of the Republican state convention, sounded here, on February 15, what was regarded as the keynote of the Republican national na-tional campaign. The first part of Mr. Root's speech, which was devoted to a consideration con-sideration of the tariff and economio conditions, was received in comparative compara-tive silence. When he opened an attack at-tack on President Wilson's Mexican policy, he was repeatedly interrupted with aplause, however. The first prolonged outburst of cheers came when Mr. Root, turning to European affairs, denounced the president's .policy as one of making threats and failing to make them good. Mr. Root charged the present administration ad-ministration with "the lack of foresight fore-sight to make timely provison for backing up American diplomacy by actual or assured military force;" with "the forfeiture of the world's respect re-spect for our assertion of rights by pursuing the policy of making threats and of failing to make them good;" and with "a loss of the moral forces of the civilized -world through failure to truly interpret to the world the spirit of the American democracy In its attitude toward the terrible events wihich accorrfpanied the early stages of the war." These, said Mr. Root, were the administration's "three fundamental fun-damental errors." |