The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-09
Monday, November Q, 1908.
NEW YORK SENATORS.

With the multitudinous issues of election out of the way and the r. told-you-sos' and the "Next-t time we'll-do-lts" all accounted for the ed itors of the country, from Maine to California, have now undertaken to provide for the future of President Roosevelt with all the vigor which is characteristic of them and of him. Two matters, of course, are settled. | One is that Mir. Roosevelt will under take hunting trip through Africa and a lecture and ovation tour through | Europe which will take up the major part of two years. The other is that MT. Roosevelt will be an associate edI- l tor on The Outlook Indeed his duties | on that weekly will begin immediately | upon MT. Tafts inauguration Dr. Ly- man Abbott. the editor-in-c of The Outlook, having announced that the then ex-president will take up hs big blue pencil the day after he lays down his big stick, namely, March 5th
 But, after the trip abroad what? The edtorship will scarcely suffice long 10 keep such fertile and many sided brain as his is occupied. It does not seem certain that an edltorship will be his permanent occupation Doubtless MT. Roosevelt realizes what a measure of power in influencing theI public he would have as an editor For that reason his announced choice is f1atering to the editorial profession. But MT. Roosevelt Is man of fifty and his hands itch to accomplish things, even in spite of the supposed tradition that ex-presidents must be more or less colorless antiquities He must look further than The Outlook. There will be many interests to coax him away Says the Springfield Union: Editorial work may interest him for time, but 1t is too sedentaryI a life to hold him long, we fear, even if interspersed with hunting trips, and it lacks the sort of variety to which the president has been accustomed"
 President Roosevelt is resident and citizen of New York state. It will not be long before the terms of that states two United States senators will run out. Senator Patt is scheduled to vacate March 4th next and Senator Depew will abdicate two years later. Some mention has been made of Mir. Roosevelt as a possible successor to Senator Platt But there Is the Afr- can hunting-trip which stands in the way of any such scheme. As the Now York Evening Post has facetiously commented Tt would be a fairly sim pie thing to write editorials for New York weekly in the African jungle, but there are insuperable difficulties in the way of answering roll calls in the United States senate from the same region"
 Then why not Roosevelt as the suc- cessor of Depew two years hence? |? There are three prominent possibli- ties for Senator Platt's chair. They are "Timmy" Woodruff, Secretary Root and Ambassador Reid. Of these, the former would be compelled to face strenuous opposition, Governor Hughes, among others, is said to be opposed to him as a senator. The latter, Ambas- sador Reid is to-day doing such excel lent work at the Court of St James that his recall should be looked upon : as nothing short of a calamity. Sec \retary Root remains and his selection . commends itself. He is excellently prepared for the post and he would / have a big backing. Says the Boston Herald of him "E1llhu Root is one of the greatest Americans now in public life. President Roosevelt has said that Root is one of the greatest men that ever served the government of this country. There is work in the senate for such a man, work that is hardly second in importance to the opportu- mites of cabinet service
 If Mir. Root should be selected now to succeed Senator Platt and Mir. Roosevelt two years hence to succeed Senator Depew, New York state would indeed, have a fine representation in the higher house of congress These two mon would comprise q team of senators. in comparison with which tao present senators, whose records hayo been dimmed with so many