All doubt as to what line the Republicans would take
in the coming electoral campaign in the United States seems to have been removed by Mr. Elihu Root's speech at the New York State Republican Convention on February 15th. It was an absolutely masterly indictment from the Republican point of view of President Wilson's management of external affairs. It is on foreign policy, and the military defences which a sound foreign policy postulates, that the election will be fought. Speaking of Mexico, Mr. Root said that that country would never have reached its present lamentable condition but for Mr. Wilson's policy. "For the death and outrage, the suffering and ruin of our brethren, the hatred and contempt of our country, and the dishonour of our name in that land the Administration at Washington shares responsibility with the inhuman brutes with whom it made common cause."
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