Arizona republican., 1901-09-21
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
Predictions of the Politicians
 Came to Naught
An Elaborate List Prepared From
 Which the President Was Ex-
 pected to Make Up New O Cabinet.

Washington, Sept. 20.-The Presiden; is dead ana buried. but the government still lives. with a new executive of manly vigor and typical American manhood.
 With Theodore Roosevelt as president there will be no change in the policy of the government, the president him. self having made this announcement. The republican administration will con tinue along the same lines in which it has run for the last four years and eight months, bringing unparalleled prosperity 10 the country. It was MT. Roosevelt who in the campaign of a year ago gave the most emphatic and direct pledge to the people as to the policies of the Mckinley administra- ton While President Mckinley. fol- lowing the traditions of his ofiice, re- mained silent after his letter of accept ance, the candidate for vice president was put forward to speak for the party for which he stood as the representa- tive. There is, therefore. no question as to the continuation of the present republican, policies.
 Now that the president has requested the members of the cabinet to remain with him 10 the end of his term and that they have consented. the earlier prognostications of politicians become interesting as showing how little was known in inner circles Of President Roosevelt's purpose.
 The change whieh it was predicted would come to the government with the chang of the official head would be merely in the personn=i of the official staff. These officials are only the per sonal representatives of the president in contIo' of the various departments of government and his personal advisors in regard to the plans ad policies of his administration. The traditions of the office leave no question as to the per sonal selection of the cabinet by the president without dictation from any power.
 So jealously has this right of the pres ident been guarded that the senate has rarely raised a question as to the wis dom of the selections. The appoint ments of cabinet officers have rule been confirmed without question. This was fittingly demonstrated when Pres idsnt Mckinley nominated his first cabinet and named for secretary of the treasury a man who had never been identified with his ps.rty. and in whom few republican senators had any con- fidence. But no question was raised. and the nomination of Secretary Gage was unanimously confirmed by the same vote that of John sherman. the most distinguished veteran of the republican party. as secretary of state.
 The same unquestioned right to the personal selection of his cabinet was conceded to President Roosevelt. and the first official act of each and every member of the Mckinley cabinet was expected to be to present his resigna- ton to the new executive. The pres ident forestalled this action if any member of the cabinet had it in mind by a wholesale reappointment.
 There was much speculation as to what republicans Mir. Roosevelt would call to his cabinet in the event of the death of President Mckinley. IL was doubtful if Mir. Roosevelt had given a thought to this question. so anxious had he been for President McKinley's complete recovery and so grieved over the terrible calamity that had come to the American people. But the ques- tion. 1t was thought, would be forced upon him by the exigencies of the case. He is president and as the head of the government responsible for every act of that government. He must have about him advisors in whom he has perfect confidence as to their judgment He would call about him such men, but in doing this he would no doubt consult the party leadsrs with the purpose of meeting best the great questions that must be decided in the next four years.
 John Hay. the present secretary of stats, is a man in whom President Roosevelt has the greatest confidence as to foreign questions, but Mir. Hay was known to have little iove for public life. and would consent to remain only as public duty. But there is strong reason why the nsw president should select for his secretary of state a man fin whom he has absolute confidence not only as 10 his knowledge and wis dom regarding foreign affairs, but one whom he would be wiling to entrust with all the affairs of his administra- tion. By the new law of succession the secretary of state would be the first man in the line of succession in case the vice president should die Presi- cent Roosevelt would be forced to con- slider this question and select for secre- tary of state a man whom he would re- gard as best fittzd to assume the re- responsibilities of the executive office in case of his death.
 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Mas sachusetts was regarded as the closest political advisor of the new preside mt, and while he is known to have 'ambi- lions outside the cabinet he might be the presidents choice for secretary of state. Should the president go west for his secretary of state, Senator Spooner the defender of the expansion policy, and an authority on inter- national law. was expected to be sell ected.
 There has been for some months a determined effort on the part Of leading republicans to have Cornelius Bliss of New York selected for secretary of the treasury in the event President Me Kinley decided to make a change in the head of the treasury department New York has long claimed that the secre- tary of the treasury should be selected , from that state whose metropolis IS re- garded as the financial center of the country. though it has been the policy of most republican presidents to go