Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1937, Page 9

.Root, Pained by Roosevelt Rift, Refused to Reply to Attacks Campaigned for Taft in 1912, 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 Ppolitical 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- wvelt wrote his strongest plea, summing up the support which was 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- self 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 Btate.” Besides he was weary and run down after his exhausting work in the ‘War Department, and as important a5 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 could have had a second 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 “ Root steadfastly refused, and iRoose- wvelt satisfied himself that, while Root would make a better President, Taft would make & better candidate. He was conscious, of course, as was Root, that the latter's corporate and Wall Btreet 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 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 Benators 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 cam- | Benator Penrose and the rest of the | Pennsylvania Republican machine by | Thousands of house- buy Esskay Dry Cured week its and ne fiavor. Try mild, mellow Esskay Bacon —vou. tfoo, will in- sist on Esskay always. contributing in 1905 a major part to the clean-up of the city of Philadelphis from what he called the “corrupt and criminal combination masquerading under the name of Republicans.” In 19i6 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 Fuller 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 when 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 & 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 Jjudge there is nothing more to it. If I am not any judge, how can I be Chief Justice?” (Copyright, 1937, by the North Americsa Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) AMENDMENT DEFEATED Missouri Kills Child Labor Pro- posal for Fourth Time. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, April 8 (#).—The House of Representatives refused to ratify the proposed Federal child labor amendment yesterday. The vote was 51 for and 74 against. It was the fourth time the Missouri Legislature had rejected the amend- ment. 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Dr. Smith said three things of im- portance were happening “in the changing philosophy of American life"—*"subordination of interests of property to interests of the whole community, responsibility of the Gov- ermment to provide for the welfare of every citizen,” and the contention that “the Nation’s political machinery can and must be used to control its economic life.” Speaker Ashton Dovell of the House of Delegates, in a paper read by Arthur W. James, State commissioner of public welfare, advocated further co-ordination of the work of the health, welfare and education de- partments in promoting social prog- ress in Virginia. | Dovell, injured in an automobile | accident Monday, was unable to at- tend. Mrs. Isabelle K. Carter, social work consultant of the Maryland Board of State Aid and Charities at Balti- more, outlined a 13-point program for ideal child welfare care before the Institute on Child Welfare Problems earlier yesterday. 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