Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1916 — Look Here: Roosevelt And Elihu Root Together. [ARTICLE]

Look Here: Roosevelt And Elihu Root Together.

Theodore Roosevelt and Elihu Root, foes in 1912 and 1914, had luncheon together Friday at the home of Robert Bacon in New York. Henry Cabot Lodge and General Leonard Wood were also guests at the luncheon. Roosevelt >nd Root shook hands for the first tdpie in nearly five Colonel Roosevelt said that, preparedness and not politics was the subject discussed, but it is said that politicians put that report aside with a smile. The Chicago Herald says that Roosevelt supporters in New York are predicting that Roosevelt is as “good as nominated” for president by republicans. *