Show A GREAT MAN HAN A very great ma man will go today from the office of secretary of state to that of senator of the United States Of course we mean Elihu Root We Ye do not recall more than two former secretaries of state as great as he Daniel Webster was a most masterful masterful masterful master master- ful man and still he lie was provincial compared with Elihu Root Mr Ir Root has taken in the whole country country coun coun- tr try and esp especially following the thc footsteps of Mr Ir Hay he lie has estimated exact exactly the plato of our country cotta coun try in the tim world and has done lone much to exalt its glory His service toward Cuba has been conspicuous ous Otis he held t that at under the treaty of Paris this country had the right and the power to steady and control the Cuban government but that it was was only a trust which must be surrendered at once so soon as a stable government could be established there When Mr 11 Root went around South America he did tho the United States a a. signal service at Rio de do Janeiro There were assembled the members of the Pan American congress they looked with some sonic apprehension apprehension apprehension ap ap- ap- ap upon the tho coming of Mr Root representing represent represent- ing the great republic of the north but in half an hours hour's s speech he lie disarmed everything like suspicion suspicion cion by convincing them that all the United States wanted of its sister republics on this continent was their prosperity and their peace and a closer walk with them and made it clear that the United States had no des designs gns on any other republic on the continent continent conti conti- nent neat no matter how weak but like a bi big brother stood ready to defend any and all of them when they were in trouble We think Mr rr Root will make a great senator perhaps the greatest one that has hailed from NewYork New NewYork York since Roscoe Conkling died although there is not a bit of the Conkling in Root He lie can better be compared to William H. H Seward There was an ideal man he knew he had ability enough to cope with anybody or with any subject but he never for one I moment forgot that ho was representing not only I I the empire state but the humblest citizen of the empire em em- piro pire state and that the office he held was a trust for I all the people |