The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-04-05
THE KEYNOTE As
SOUNDED BY ROOT
In the Political Campaign
This Year
is MORE Or LESS CONFUSING
Requires Interpreter To Find
Out Real Meaning OF Eli.
hu's Sentiments.
"ABLEST LIVING REPUBLICAN,
(By Savoyard.)

(By Savoyard)
Washington, March 30.--Mr. Eli
hu Root is universally conceded to
be the ablest living Republican. Per-
haps that party has never produced
his superior as a thinker. AS law
yer he is the head of the American
bar. He served with prodigiOus dis
tinction in the cabinets of two Re-
publican Presidents. AS Secretary
Of State he was the balance wheel of
the Roosevelt administration. His
"swing around the circle" in South
America showed that he can be
broad-minded and far-seeing, after
the order of Woodrow Wilson, who
has brought those Latin people into
a bond of intimacy with and conf
dence in our Government.
Then it was natural and proper
that Mr.. Root should be appointed
to sound the Republican keynote"
of this years political campaign. He
is not only a great statesman, but in
the game of politics he is a hand
and-a-half as well, as witness his
jamming the nomination of Taft
through the Republican National
Convention of 1912, of which he
was permanent president. If he
We're ten years younger it is prac-
tically assured that he would head
the ticket in 1916, and few would
be surprised if he should be nomi-
mated after all, Notwithstanding he
is past three-score and ten years of
age.
Mr.. Root has sounded the key
note, and such keynote! Now, a
keynote should require no interpre-
ter. 1t ought to be plain to every
understanding and have the same
meaning everywhere. But folks are
at loss to comprehend precisely
what Mr.. Root was driving at Some
will tell you that this keynote is
boost for Col. Roosevelt. Others in
cline to the belief that Mr.. Root is
trying to steal Col. Roosevelts thun-
der. Enthusiastically, his voice is for
war against Mexico and against Ger
many. AS to that there is no uncer-
tain sound. He severely condemns
Wilson for not sustaining Huerta
and his cutthroat gang, and he is in
o rage because Wilson did not choke
VCermany off Belgium.
In the platform on which Abra-
ham Lincoln ran for President in
1860 is an indictment of those
ftwin relics of barbarism," human
4lavery and the Mormon church.
For more than a dozen years the
Mormon church has been a trusted
ally of "the Party of Great Moral
IDEAS" and in 1912 that twin relic
of barbarism'' supplied the G. o. P.
with one-half the votes 1t received
in the electoral college in a Presi-
dental year. And since the inaugu-
ration Of Wilson the party of Lin
COlH anu mas oVNNiCiS WV
icised him for not lending counte-
nance to Huerta in Mexico, who
stood for human slavery. and moth
ing but human slavery.
"Vice is a monster of such hideous
mien
AS to be hated needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft, familiar with her
face,
We first endure, then pity. then en-
brace"
And to that complexion has come
at last the Republican party-in
firm alliance with the Mormon
church at home and the apologist
and supporter of human slavery
abroad!
Now. Root complains of Wilson
because he did not challenge Ger
many for the invasion of Belgium In
1914 In that he Is only the echo of
Theodore Roosevelt, who holds that,
like England, We are bound by trea-
ty to do so. II his indictment means