The Washington herald., 1906-10-30
ROOTS SPEECH READY
Put in Type at Government
Printing Office.
MEN MISS LUNCH TO DO IT
Copy for the Utica Talk Comes with
'Rush' order and II Is Obeyeti.
Printers Inclined to Resent Be
cause 10 speaks Mr.. Roots Plain
Language Regarding Hearst.

Il instructed my secretary to have
the matter set up 50 that an estimate
could be made OF II. have IL printed,
ana the hill sent into me. That is AL
SECRETARY ROOT"
Hon. EIhu Root, the Secretary Of
State. is fo enter the New York cam
paign al Utica. on Thursday night Ills
speech is now ready portion of II va
put in type at the Government Printing
ONCE yesterdayzand Just enough Of it
has leaked out Z show that the Secre-
tary. who always has something TO say
when he takes the platform or stump,
viii paw his respects to Candidate
Hearst in choice but vigorous language
that cannot be misunderstood.
lie viii speak for the administration.
and when he has spoken there viii be
no doubt. II doubt ever existed, as TO the
deep interest felt in Washington in Can
didate Hughes election.
Completed Yesterday.
Secretary Root completed the prepara-
ton OF his speech Yesterday morning.
Shortly before noon. chief Clerk DENLY
sent part OF it, If not the whole Of the
speech; to Public Printer SulIings as an
emergency piece of work. Il was 10 be
put in type by o'clock in the after
noon.
Of course. Mr.. StillinGs was equal to
the emergency. Doubtless he knew what
the document was. bur there was no
pause for inquiry 10 interrupt the Office
routine. The speech Went TO the printers,
cut In small takes. and was in type at
the hour amounted
Work Done on Time.
No weil-regulated plant of Uncle Sans
would have been tardy or derelict in such
an emergency, especially if it involved
doing something for the Department OF
state.
Caused n Hub-bub.
But the episode caused a hub-hub. new
ertheless-a little unpleasantness-that
promptly became known. To get the
speech in type by 5 p m necessitated
work during the noon or luncheon hour.
Perhaps. If it had been a Presidential
proclamation or a Japanese treaty. the
force would frantcally have gone hungry
and complained not a whit, but when
they discovered they were working out
Of hours on a political speech. and that.
too. containing an attack on the printers
friend. William Randolph Hearst, a few
OF them. at least, felt quite dlsgruntled
why should the Government Printing
Office be used to set up political
speeches" they asked This question
went the rounds-quietly, of course. but
not quietly enough to prevent its reaching
the public ear in course of u few hours
And so comes the telling of the story in
this column.
Secretary Root, when questioned last
evening very promptly made the state
mcnt printed above-that's all.
DENLY Says Nothing.
Chief Clerk DENLY had nothing to say.
except that he had not had time TO look
at th,. copy he sent to the G. P. 0.
Public Printer StilIings said he simply
exeC aan order received from the De-
pa of State.
tion Of overtime" for the
printers who went hungry may or may
mol come UP at the end OF the week
Secretary. Root has decided to leave
Washington tomorrow for Utica, y. Y,
where he VIII speak Thursday, In the in
terest of the candidacy of Charles Z.
Hughes, for governor.