The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-01
DELIGHTED OLLIE!

There evidence that Woodrow Wilson preparing to
grow bristng musache and show his teeth He has written let
unapproacab Incompatible Ollie thanking him for
his corkng good peecwhy not bully there are no patent
rights the word
What the of that speech' 1t was coarse attack on
Ehu Root of the President personal apponees 1t
jeer sna the presidential bunder of sending to Russia
described by COL Roosevelt the greatest of all living
Americans whe ready hand lay the beaming personality the
benign presence the exhorng the great Amer
who happily combines Chadband with cawber In word
why Eu when William Jennings would have fitted in so neatly
SO much least reasonably infer from the remark that the
Republicans kept quiet when the Root mission failed disma
did wondrwhereas they would have raised the roof of the
Capitol the heat of their indignation Bryan had been sent And
they would have been right We hasten to add.
Well if it had been the Presidents purpose ndOrse great
Bryan beyond above all other Americans would have
been the for the job IT, the other hand the
hearten the young republics lend it great constructive mind
the signal compliment sending of the best appreciated
of the land then the choice of Mr. Root the that
should been made Nor need infer that the President regrets
his selection because he jolles Ollie.
recently Thursday Mr. Root showing that, great
national crisis be diverted from the business hand
the winning the by such heavy artillery
senior about the time receiving presidential
thanks for 1t had occurred to him. had Senator James
that for fractional politics He thinking of Amer
which quite another thing from thinking of WASHINGTON and
it's pie president of the National Security League he had ad
dressed warning the Congress of National Service III
session in Chicago.
Of what was of his plea? What did he aim
To the last question first his aim unity
effort and conservation purpose His plea to disregard
distractions refuse time sess discussion of
terms There negotiations Mr. Root And this
ahere basis peace negotiations And then he
continued words that Bryan could have written and that
James may ponder with profit
Let us be warned by poor Russia present position The
Boslevik very eloquent about peace without
nexatons ndemnties and they filed the minds of Rus
soldiers and workmen with the idea to such extent
that they stopped fighting and making munitions but when
they Brest Iovsk they found what the leaders pro-
badly knew all aOng-tlat Germany had intention of
making any such peace She wanted the Baltic provinces
and Russia having stopped fighting favor of
the kind of peace she admired finds herself in position
where for the present she has nothing whatever about
the kind of peace there shall be- We beware of any
thing in the remotest degree approaching that,
What them Just this patriotic appeal all citizens buckle
down to the great work neither shortcoming crt
the slightest degree divert decrease the hearns with
which all support and reinforce the President and his civil and
military officers in carrying this war
What Mr. Root had that regard does but the
with which the press of the couny parts of the
try and all shades of opnowcomed the fine spirit of loyalty
that inspired the recent Republican conference at ST. Louis Their
morale did not need aousng whatever might be the with
country No word there but winning the and of contributing
in every way to that end.
Such proceedings and such must doubt be pec
ay offensive Senator James and others of like eminded
Just keeping out of within late memory
Democratic boast that entered the has be-
Democratic possession be jealousy guarded and defended
against the day when have electoral value Queer
radictiOn but that's the way of it.
Our should be Delighted" the fluctuations that
reach him. We hand him that choice bit from famous vocabulary
helping President with nice appreciation the right
word.-LOusvle Herald