Show senator platt s responsibility before senator platt of new york had been shelved practically a great many persons appealed to him lor help of one kind or another on one occasion a young army officer had been denied promotion because of some defect in his eyesight his mother wrote to senator platt asking him tor his as si stance closing her letter with the words I 1 leave it all to you and the lord the senator forwarded this appeal to the secretary 0 war saying in his own note I 1 have noticed that when a matter Is left to me and the lord I 1 am held responsible in case of failure therefore I 1 beg that you will assist me |