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Show ELIHU ROOT. B When Secretary Root gave up the War Sec- jl rotary ship, President Roosevelt said In effect that he wab the foremost statesman of the republic; 1 Senator Piatt of Connecticut, the author of the !H "Piatt amendment" to the Cuban constitution, H said that re-constructed Cuba owes more to Elihu H Root than to any other man, and Harper's Week- H ly adds this tribute: "If, to the sorrow of his fel- fl low-citizens, Mr. Root's career were to end to- morrow, of him it would be written: He was Sec- -H retary of War and incidentally Secretary of the SH Colonies, when liberated Cuba was transformed M into an independent republic, forever to be shielded against foreign aggression by the aegis M of the United States, and when the Philippines M were pacified and conscientiously endowed with a large measure of self-government." B It would look as though it would be a good idea to keep a man of that stamp in high station; H the higher the better. Why not name him for the JRH second place on the ticket with a prospect of 9H first place four years hence? Suppose both can- jH didates should hail from New York, what mat- H ter? The best men are the ones needed. H |
