Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-08
ALSO HIGHLY PRAISES HIS
SUCCESSOR
ACCEPTANCE is ANNOUNCED
Formal Statement ls Made That Ellhu
Root VIII Be the New Secretary
Of State, Assuming Duties
at Once
By Associated Press.

OYSTER BAY, l.. l., July 7-OfIlcla
announcement was made here toda,
that Elihu Root has been appolnte,
secretary of state.
The announcement was made on thu
authority oAPresident Roosevelt, in thu
following statement given out by Sec.
retary Loeb:
"Elihu Root has accepted the tender
by the president of the United States
of the office of secretary of state. He
will take the Office in couple of weeks
but 1t will necessarily be some little
time before he closes up his business
affairs. He will not go to Washing
ton permanently until some time II
September"
President Roosevelt is much graft
fed at Mr.. Roots acceptance and is
deeply sensible of the personal sacrl-
fees made by Mr.. Root in again taking
upon himself the burdens and duties
of a member Of the cabinet.
When he takes active charge Of the
department he will give up entirely
his law practice.
President Roosevelt paid an appro-
pirate and eloquent tribute to the life
and services of the late Secretary o.
State John Hay in his address before
the National Educational association
at Ocean Grove today. He followed
49, re- Of n
sacrifice Elihu Root had made in be-
coming Secretary Hays successor in
office. The example of these two man
enabled him to point out most e.
fective moral.
Pays Tribute to Hay
At the conclusion of his prepared ad-
dress, the president put aside his notes
and spoke as follows to the great audi
ence:
"In closing, 1 want to speak to you
Of how certain things, some of which
have happened and some of which
have ben suggested to me by what has
happened in the past week, emphasize
what 1 have said to you as to the ex-
perience of this country of having with
in its limit men who put the realization
of high ideals above any form of
making.
within a week this country has lost
a great statesman who was a man of
letters, man who occupied pic
turesque and unique position in our
country, man of whose existence each
of us ought to be proud, for the United
States as a whole was better because
John Hay lived. Such service as he
rendered could not have been rendered
save by man who had before him
ideas as far apart as the poles from
those ideas which have in them any
taint of what is base or sordid.
Now, 1 wished to secure as Mr..
Hays successor the man whom I re-
garded as of all the men in the country
the one best fitted to be such ones
successor. In asking him to accept the
position of secretary of state / was
asking him to submit to a very great
pecuniary sacrifice and I never thought
of that aspect of the question, for 1
knew that he would not either.
II knew that whatever other con-
siderations he had to weigh for and
against taking the position, the con-
sideration of how it might affect his
personnel fortune would not be taken
into consideration by Elihu Root, and
he has accepted.
Privilege of Work
II am not speaking of Hay and Root
as solitary exceptions. On the contrary
am speaking of them as typical of a
large class of men in public life.
hope to see the sentiment of the country
as a whole become such that each man
shall feel borne in on him, whether he
is in public or private life, and, mind
you, some of the greatest public services
can be best rendered by those who are
not in public life. that the chance to dc
good work is the greatest chance to dc
can come to any man or any woman
in our generation or in any other gener-
alton, and to feel that If such work
can be well done it is itself the amplest
reward and the amplest prize"
President Roosevelt's reference tc
both Mr. Hay and Root were received
with tremendous applause. His state
ment that the latter had accepted the
Office of secretary Of state. fact Of
which many of his auditors were not
aware, brought the audience to its feet