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Root, Pained by Roosevelt Rift,
Refused to Reply to Attacks
Campaigned for Taft in 19129 But
Never Publicly Denounced Opponent.
Refused to Shape Life Politically.
(Continued From Page A-8.)
bound a crowd that was bored to death
with the usual run of flamboyant
political oratory.
The boom that had been growing to
run him that year for Governor of
New York took on momentum. As
early as April he had definitely stated
that the would not run, but poli
ticians could not accept such a de
cision. All elements in the party
urged him to accept—Platt, Odell,
Wadsworth, Higgins, Fassett, Roose
velt, Joe Cannon. On August 2 Roose
velt wrote his strongest plea, summing
up the support which w'as behind his
name: “One and all. they put it that
by present appearances, if you run
for Governor and were elected, you
would become the man most likely to
be nominated by the Republicans for
the presidency in 1908. * * * It is
the literal truth that in the Middle
#West the people are more interested
in your running for Governor of
New York than they are in their
own State contests. This, you know,
was exactly the case with me in ’98.”
Would Have to Quit Profession.
But Root would have none of it, “It
would mean the permanent abandon
ment of my profession and my posi
tion at the bar,” he wrote to Lodge,
the breaking up of my home to my
aelf and my family, an exile for four
years from the associations which
make life worth living and in ex
change the complete surrender and
devotion of my life to sordid details
of local politics throughout the
Etate.”
Besides he was weary and run down
after his exhausting work in the
War Department, and as important
as any other consideration was the
knowledge that Mrs. Root hated that
sort of life, and he was unwilling to
Impose it upon her. There is no
question that, as the political sit
uation stood in 1904, Root could have
been elected Governor, and the
chances are he oould have had a
•econd term and so stepped into the
presidency in 1908 as Roosevelt sug
gested. But since he did not seek the
highest office he declined the interme
diate one.
Roosevelt later again urged him to
take the presidential nomination, but
1 Boot steadfastly refused, and iftoose
Telt satisfied himself that, while Root
would make a better President, Taft
would make a better candidate. He
was conscious, of course, as was Root,
that the latter's corporate and Wall
Street affiliations would be a serious
handicap, but with the strength of
Roosevelt's prestige in 1908, any man
he chose could have been elected.
■ Thus Root turned down an oppor
tunity to eliminate one of the bitter
contestants of the 1912 campaign, as
four years before he might perhaps
have eliminated the other.
He agreed to take the senatorship
from New York in 1909 because, in
those days, before the adoption of the
seventeenth amendment, no cam
paigning was required and the office
itself required him neither to abandon
the legal profession nor to burden Mrs.
Root with onerous official social du
ties. He could have had a second
•term, but in 1915 popular election of
Senators had supplanted election by
the Legislatures and he was unwilling
to campaign for himself.
Earned Hearst’s Enmity.
Meanwhile, he had gained the un
dying enmity of Hearst by contributing
largely to his defeat for the governor
ship in 1906. Root's speech de
nouncing Hearst was one of his great
est efforts. He had also antagnoized
Senator Penrose and the rest of the
Pennsylvania Republican machine by
contributing in 1905 a major part to
the clean-up of the city of Philadelphia
from what he called the “corrupt and
criminal combination masquerading
under the name of Republicans.”
In 1916 Root did allow his en
thusiastic friends to put his name In
nomination for the presidency. He was
persuaded because he felt so strongly
about the war and the demerits of
Wilson’s attitude. But he would not
lift a finger to help his own candi
dacy. With Theodore Roosevelt op
posing his nomination and Hughes
splitting the vote of the new delega
tion, it was not surprising that the
convention did not nominate him.
Root also turned down in 1908 a
chance to sit on the Supreme Court.
“There is nothing in the story about
the chief justiceship,” he wrote his
friend, Judge Willard Bartlett. “The
President offered me the appointment
as associate justice to fill the vacancy
to which Moody was appointed and
I told him I was too old and I would
not take it. (He was 63 at the time.)
I am inclined to think that I should
say the same thing about the chief
justiceship. I shall never have occa
sion to, however, because Puller will
stay indefinitely, and, as Vest said
about old Senator Morrill, they will
have to shoot him on the day of judg
ment. He will cling to the bench
with his last expiring ray of intelli
gence, and w'hen that is gone he will
be incompetent to resign or retire."
Root did not, however, advise Presi
dent Roosevelt to stack the court
additional appointees to counteract
this situation.
When Taft became President rumor
was again rife that Root would be
appointed to the bench. Joseph H.
Choate had, as a matter of fact,
strongly urged Taft to appoint Root
Chief Justice. Root said that Taft
felt he should not appoint a man 65
and Root agreed with him. Yet Taft
himself took the chief justiceship at
the age of 63. Root wrote again to
Bartlett: “The report about the
chief justiceship is, I suppose, merely
a newspaper guess based upon the
fact that the President and I ap
peared to be on friendly terms the
other day at Beverly. If I am any
judge there is nothing more to it. If
I am not any judge, how can I be
Chief Justice?”
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(A3).—The House of Representatives
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The vote was 51 for and 74 against.
It was the fourth time the Missouri
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Speaker Ashton Dovell of the House
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ideal child welfare care before the
Institute on Child Welfare Problems
earlier yesterday.
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Sessions will close Saturday.
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