Show ELIHU ROOT IN THE SENATE All AU the world Is to be congratulated on the published pub pub- fished statement that Ellhu Elihu Root will bo ho sent to Washington as a United States senator from New York 1 Not in many years yeara has bas that state slate been represented represented seated by a man of his ability And it is not to the tho credit of ot New York that this Is true Small and young oung st st. states tes have sent up men of whom tb the nation is proud But New York has made herself hersel a jest by her selections Out of millions of people o out t of or ortho the tho richest commonwealth of the Union men nen of no ability of no statesmanship of oC no recognized in either morals or mentality have e been selected And nd tho better bettor men inca have havo b been n left at I home bome Elihu Ellhu Root Is 15 probably as able a man and as great an American as tb there re Is In the in-the the whole Empire state He has a splendid mind He Is a 11 true truo patriot He knows his countr country He knows the people and their needs He knows governments and a large view of public duty and The Tho senate will be stronger for tor the presence Root there As Pennsylvania advanced by the selection of or Mr Knox so New York will wipe out the memory of many embarrassments ments by the seating seat seat- ing lag of Elihu Root |