Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
.CHANG[ IN Cabinet
General Belief That With the
New Year Cabinet Changes
Will Come.
Root Thought to Be Slated For
Secretary Of State, If
Hay Retires.
Not Improbable That Ex-senator
Wolcott Will Come Into
the Cabinet.

Washington, Noy ga repuhlica
from western state, who has long bee
a warm personal friend of Presiden
Roosevelt, after spending an hour wit
him the other day, said: do you kno,
that j believe that the president mean
to be taken literally when he announce
to the country Immediately after Nc
ton to carrying out his policy on pub
lie questions, retain each member o
the cabinet. He meant to retain thei
services, not temporarily, but for tn
: entire term for which Mckinley wa
elected, and / believe he Will do It. Ii
my opinion, TO changes whatever in th'
cabinet are contemplated
This is not by any means the view
taken by other republicans who thinl
they are pretty we'll informed on what
is going on in the presidents min6
these days The more general opinion
is that, no matter how sincerely Mr.
Roosevelt's announcement was made
circumstances Will so shape themselves
/ after election and after congress has
! been made acquainted with the new
presidents plans and purposes thru his
1 first annual message, that cabinet
! changes viii be inevitable.
/ Cabinet members know that no mat
| ter how things stand at present. it is
not to be expected that president OF
/ the United States should have as mem
/ bers of his official family during mis- en-
| tire term men not of mis- own choosing.
In the case of the present cabinet the
/ circumstances are somewhat exception
! al, 1t is true, in that nearly all of the
| members are We'll known to MIR. Roose-
| welt, who, when he was assistant sec
| rotary of the navy, often represented
| Secretary Long at the council table on
cabinet days. 1t is fact, however, that
when In the navy department Mr.
Roosevelt was not on the most cordial
terms with one or more of the cabinet,
and that on occasions they treated
him and his opinions with scant court
esy. The president probably does not
feel any ill will toward these mel. but
there must of necessity be measure of
embarrassment in their minds, when
they recall the early days of trouble
ness of some administration officials
was sa severely rebuked by the older
and wiser" heads.
All things. past and present consid-
cred, therefore. the conclusion is NEST
natural that along about the beginning
OF the new year the cabinet will be re-
cast, to some extent as least. 1t IS too
early yet. perhaps to talk about who
will go, but 1t is no disparagernent to
other members of the cabinet to say
that two who are sure to remain. if they
can be prevailed upon to do so, are Sec
retary of War Root and Attorney Gem
eral Knox, Secretary of State Hay. Sec
rotary of the Treasury Hay and Secre-
airy OF the Navy Long may each desire. |
for personal reasons, TO be relieved |
when pending matters in their respec-
tive departments are settled, as 1t IS UNI |
derstood that all of them have more
than once expressed strong desire to |
retire to private life.
Secretary Root and Attorney General /
Knox are known to be held In especial I
~ high regard by the president as men /
Of the greatest legal and executive abiI- I
ity. and In whose judgment the pres- |
dent places the utmost faith Mr.. Roots
is popularity slated for the premiership /
Of the administration should Mr.. Hay |.
determine to retire. and Mr. Knox will |
remain at the head of the department
or justice as the character of his legal
training has been Just the kind needed t
In the office of attorney general.
Should changes occur in the cabinet
places not already mentioned, there is a
vide field TO select from In choosing
their successors, almost every republic
can statesman from Maine to California
having already been mentioned" as
the most excellent kind of
cabinet timber. There Is one repubIi-
IAN of national reputation In particular,
about whom little has been said in con-
iection with a cabinet place, who is
more than likely to be holding a port
'olio before the expiration of Mr.. Roose-
telt's term. This is former Senator Ed
ward Oliver Wolcott, or Colorado. Last
March, as his twelve years service in
he senate was about to expire, he re-
signed his membership of the republi-
IAN national committee to make way
or one who had been a loyal worker in
he ranks, and went to Europe for
est. He returned recently, and last
Tuesday he took luncheon with the
president at the white house and had
ong chat on political affairs. Yester-
lay Mr.. Wolcott came to Washington
lgain and saw the president by APP
continent. He has now gone back to
to resume his law practice,
which he practically abandoned when
elected to the senate IN 1889. But II is,
he opinion of well-informed republi-
ans here that he will soon return If
dr. Wolcott does become member of
he cabinet it will be change in line
With the plan of Mr.. Roosevelt to carry
tut az near as may be, the plans and
purposes Of his predecessor. for it is
veil known here that Mr.. Wolcott held :,
place close to the heart of Mr. McKin-
ey, and that Mr.. Mckinley would have
lot been satisfied to let him go back to ,
to remain. Mr.. Roosevelt has
9 good opinion of Mr.. Wolcott as Mr.
Mckinley had and personally they are
more closely drawn together by ties of
ersonal friendship.
Franco Turkish Relations.
Paris, Nov. Sin the chamber of dep :
tiles yesterday M. Sembat, radical So