The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-30
ROOTS AMBITION IS ID AID REMOVAL 0F NEW SECT|ONAL|SM Same Thought in All of His Recent Public and Pri-
 vate Utterances IS NOW TOO OLD TO
 BECOME PRESIDENT Will be Seyenty-two When Next Con vention Meets-Points Out Pres
 ent Duties of Nations
 Business Men
By HOLLAND

New York, March Special. )-A ~eek earlier than the day of the ad- nress which was delivered by former he spoke 10 his associate members of the Union League club of Philadelphia he spokwe to his associate members of the Union League club of this city. The occasion was meant to be a trib- ute to the public services of the for tner senator and also to supplement the tribute paid to him when he was recently elected president of this home rlub of his in New York city.
 The New York address was not re- ported and as it was regarded in one sense a confidential talk with his fell low members it was not deemed ex- pedient to publish it. Yet it was in line with the address delivered by MT Root in Philadelphia. In fact. all of the address which Mir. Root has re- gently delivered have had a. their text the pre- sentiment duty of the business snen Of the United States, irrespective of party lines, to undertake now to per- Fsaade the country that the vitality of American business life the pros perity of the country and healthful conditions depend upon the assertion of American business men of their right within the law to act according Rs prudence. experience and individual Initiative and action justify them in doing.
 Mir Roots friends in this city have Known for several years that he re- gares this the most important is- sue before the people of the United states. Several years ago in an ad- dress delivered in Pennsylvania he in- 1imated that his strong conviction was that the prosperity and health of tho United States depend upon the elimin- anation of what for want of a better term to describe it he spoke of as the new sectionalism.' The great indus tries of the east and the middle west and the great financing which is char acteristic of those parts of the coun- try and of the trend of public opin- Ion there, whereas, on the other hand there should be in the remoter sec 1ions Of the country, principally west ot the Mississippi, clearer under standing of the fact that one section cannot prosper at the expense of an- other and a profound conviction that on the whole the business men of the United States are honest, seeking no undue advantages by the practice of unfair or dishonorable methods
 In Mr. Roots address before the Union League club of this city he spoke with great earnestness and with the eloquerce which absolute sincerity and deep feeling make possible. saying that the time had now come when business men of the United States, no matter what their associations may be- should make themselves heard. should carry on a campaign of education with in- tent to put end to the unrest, dis trust and modern seetionalism which had brought. in his view, the country into a deplorable condition, so deploI able that those last summer who were best informed spoke of it as appalling
 In this city no one intinates that Mir. Root is now speaking as he does with a view to presidential politics of next year. He has no Illusions about his personal relation to the presiden- tial convention of his party. He will be 72 years of age when the next Pres idential election is held and that of itself he knows would constitute an irremovable obstacle in the consider ation of him as his party's candidate for the presidency All who have been in intimate relationship with Senator Root have been aware that he Is one of the rare men of promi- nence in American public life who have never permitted what President Lin coin once called the grub of presi- dential ambition" to take possession of him. He has known that there were political considerations, partly those of locality, partly those which relate