The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-10-22
HIGH LIGHTS IN
THE CAREER OF
PHILANDRR @. KNOX.
Some Of the Important Things About
senator Knox Who Died q
Few Days Ago.

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more than passing attention to tn
footprints left upon the sands OF tim
by the late Philander c. Knox" dc
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! ISOLATION in a review fthe "higl
lights" In the career Of the dlstin
guished statesman. The review Is q
follows:
Assistant U. s. Attorney for tn
western district OF Pennsylvania
1876. President Pennsylvania Bar AS
ISOLATION 1897. Attorney General o
the United States under Mckinley
1901; reappointed by Roosevelt ant
served to 1904 when he resigned.
Appointed to U. s. Senate to fill
vacancy caused by death Of Matthew
Stanley Quay, 1904, and elected for
senatorial term 1905-11, resigning in
1909 to become Secretary Of State I'M
der President Taft. Reelected to the
Senate March 6, 1916, to succeed Sem
ator George T. Oliver.
Received 6S votes for Republican
presidential nomination In convention
of 1908. Refused Attorney eneralship
during McKinley's first term. Twice
refused Roosevelt's tende rof appoint
ment to the U. S. Supreme Court
Prominently mentioned for appoint
ment as Secretary Of State under
Harding, but preferred to remain in
the Senate.
WAS trusted adviser Of four Presi-
dents-McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft and
Harding. Successfully prosecuted the
so-called Northern Securities Case,
pronounced b unconstitutional author
tiles to be the gravest and most i'm
portant issue presented to the Su-
preme Court since the determination
of the problems growing out of the
Civil War period. This broke up the
notorious Hill-Morgan railroad mer-
ger. He secured the extradition Of
Greene and Gaynor, who had fled to
Canada with large sumo embezzled in
connection with government contracts
in the harbor of Savannah. Canada re-
fused to extradite them and Knox, act
ing in direct conflict with an opinion
of Sir Edward Clark, leader of the
British baA took an appeal to the
privy council in London, which rem
dered an opinion in favor of the
United States and established a prec-
edent in international law. He acquir-
ed title to the Panama Canal for the
United States and did much to
strengthen our relationships with the
Latin Americas. He originated the
plan to neutralize the Manchurian
railways, which was defeated by the
of Russia and Japan. He
gave dignity to dollar diplomacy
HE was irreconcilably opposed, as
an American and a Senator to the
Wilson leageu of nations. Knox will
see though it, wrote Lansing from
Paris. In the debate on that matter he
what has been referred to as
he Knox doctrine viz, If stua-
ion should arise in which any power |
n combination Of powers should, d.
ectly or indirectly, menace the free
lam and peace of Europe, the United
states would regard such situation
With grave concern as a menace to its |
'wn freedom and peace and would
consult with other powers affected
With a view to concerted action for
he removal of such menace This was
lat acted upon by the Senate. He was
N eof the authors o fthe round robin
esolutio (which served notice on the
yersailles peace conferees that the
eague could not hope for the required
ote in the Senate and that the treaty
hould not include it. He was finally
he author Of the peace resolution,
mended somewhat by the House,
'hich officially terminates the war.
"Philander c. Knox will be remem-
cred as one of the foremost states
len fthe age in whoich he lived"