Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-25

and at that time it was arranged that he
would succeed Secretary Root Secretary
Root will go out of office some time in jan
uary and Judge Taft will assume the duties
of the office shortly afterward."
The President also authorized the pub
Ncation of the correspondence between him
and Secretary Root concerning the latter's
resignation. In full the correspondence fol-
lows:
Secretary Roots Letter
'Dear Mr.. President: You have been good
to assent to the sutficiency of the reasons
for which, have wished to retire to private
life as soon as practicable after the estab-
hshment of the general staff of the army
and the completion of my full four years
of service as Secretary of War
While 1t is understood that you. will
probably not arrange to fill the office as
you wish before the end Of the year. and
that am to remain in Office in the mean
time. 1t is probable that you will be ready
10 send name to the Senate in Novem-
Der or December, and before you do SO my
resignation should be In your hands.
- find myself on the of sailing for
england. TO attend the sessions of the
Alaska boundary tribunal. quite unable to
Judge how many months l shall be kept
away from this. country. and l therefore
no" tender my resignation of the office OF
octIcliIy u WIT. 10 take enSCt she
appointment and qualification of my sue
cessor.
Loyalty to Administration.
II shall carry with me unabated LOYALTY
to your administration, confidence in the
sound conservatism and patriotic unset
f1shness of your policy and enduring graft
fude for the kindness and considerat ton
with which your friendship has honored
me. / shall not cease to appreciate the
sympathy and loyalty to President McKin-
ley with which you took and carried on
ms work-and l shall always be happy to
nave been part of the administration d.
rected by your sincere and rugged adher-
ence TO right and devotion to the true
interests of country
Il am with great respect and esteem AL
ways.
Faithfully yours.
"ELIHU ROOT
''To the President"
President Roosevelt's Reply.
OYSTER BAY n. Y August 81
Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War. Wash
ington. d. c.:
My Dear Mr.. Root: 1t is hard indeed
Tor me to accept your resignation: and 1
10 SO not only with keen personal regret, but
with lively understanding of the gap your
Withdrawal will create in public life
My sense of personal loss is very great:
and yet my sense of the loss To the ma
ton as whole is even greater
You nave been over four years Sec
Tetary or War. | wonder II you Yourself
realize how much you have accomplished
during that period. If you will turn to
your first reports and will read therein
the recommendations you made in order
that the army might be put on an effective
basis you cannot but be pleased at the
way In which these recommendations have
row been adopted by Congress as well as
by the administration, and have become
enacted into law or crystallizaed into Gus
tom.
No One Ever Worked Harder.
I'VE have never had a public servant Of
the government who has worked harder
than you have worked during these four
years and half. and. this not merely in
point of time, but above all in point Of
Intensity, and your success has been equal
to your labor.
THE only reward you have had or can
have, Is the knowledge of successful
achievement. of the performance in fullest
fashion of great public duty. the do
ing of which was of vital Importance to
the nations welfare
Your duties have included more than
merely the administration of the depart
ment and the reorganization of the army
on an effective basis You have also been
the head of the department which dealt
VITA the vast and delicate problems in
volved In our possession of the Philippine
Asiands. ana your success in dealing with
TINS part OF your work has been as signal
as your success in dealing with the purely
military problems.
Signal and Striking Triumphs,
ITO very few statesmen indeed in anv