The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-09-26
EOR A NEW CABINET.
lodge for Secretary of state and Allison
for Treasury Predicted.

AOGRo lOF ScCEeCAEy Oh SCAto anu ALLISON
for Treasury Predicted.
A Washington special to the Kansas
City Star says:
The death Of President Mckinley and
the succession of Theodore Roosevelt
will involve mighty changes in the po-
litical situation. Every one of Mr.. Nc
kinley's chief appointees at home and
abroad will resign. This will include
not only his cabinet Ind minor heads
Of departments in the United States,
but the ambassadors, ministers, on
sui generals n all other prominent Of
fctals who ave been assigned to duty
abroad. The vast patronage tha, will
stand at the disposal of the new presi-
dent and the stupendous amount of
power that it will Involve Ia apparent.
Wisely distributed, this power could
make him the next presidential nomi-
nee beyond p~eradventure of a doubt.
One thing may be set down as GER
tain, that there will be almost a clean
sweep Of h present cabinet. MI.
Roosevelt is a man with ideas of his
own and the present members are not
the ones to carry them out. Perhaps
one or two of the present counsellors
VIII remain, but the personnel will be
radically changed. Secretary Hay Will
go. That is accepted here as a fore
gone conclusion. He would not want
to serve under MIR. Roosevelt and in
this he Is in harmony with Mr.. Roose-
Veit himself.
The man whom the new president
would have for his premier must be an
aggressive, militant individual. with a
good deal of Blaine's "~Americanism"
n perhaps somewhat exaggerated
Ideas as to the Difference which is owed
his country by other nations. The
man Who would combine within himself
the qualities which attracts Roosevelt
halls from Massachusetts, and his
name is Henry Cabot Lodge. Roosevelt
u Lodge have trained together FOR
years. Their minds are moulded on
much me same lines and each IN his
work has a the sympathy of the
other.
In a large measure what Mr.. Roosevelt
likes Lodge likes; what Roosevelt dislIkes
finds itself ~repugnant in the eyes of
Lodge. They fought the battles of the
civil service in the same harness and later
on Lodge constituted himself the cham
pion Of Roosevelt in the senate
1t would depend upon Lodge himself,
therefore, whether he would be secretary
of state. With the obscure end Of other
secretaries Of state to ponder on, perhaps
he would prefer the lime-light Of the SEN
ate, especially so, II he is to succeed Cush-
man K. Davis as the chairman Of the for
eign relations committee. Still Mr.. Roose-
| Welt has a persuasive way about him and
1t would not be surprising to find the Mas
sachusetts man in an acquiescent mood.
Elihu Root will probably remain as sec
rotary Of war. He n Mr.. Roosevelt have
never differed either personally or pollti-
caily and the new president has a very
high opinion of the secretary's ability.
Besides Root was kind enough to side
with Mr.. Roosevelt when it came to APP
pointing an assistant secretary Of war to
succeed Mr.. Meikeljohn of Nebraska. SEN
ator Plat fought William Cary Sanger
tooth and nail and even went so far as to
protest to the president. Mr.. Roosevelt
backed Sanger and Sanger won. There
fore, 1t Is looked upon as probable that
Root would stay where he Is.
William E. Chandler Is scheduled for
secretary of the ANY by the wiseacros.
Here again as in the case of Lodge, are
two men who are built on the same gem
eral lines Of temperament. They are
friends. too, and then Chandler was once
secretary of the ANY n was reputed to
know his business thoroughly. He is
sometimes styled the father Of the navy,
and in this he Is a mar after Mr.. Roose-
Nelt's own heart. John D. Long will not
remain at the head Of the naval estab-
lishment.
William b Allison is said to be the ia
vorits for the treasury portfolio. ,Sec:e-
tary Cages resignation, it is believed, will
be accepted, principally on the broad
ground that he Is not the sort of a man
that Mr.. Roosevelt YOU'D like to tie to.
Allison is too old for the presidency, in
connection with which nomination, how
ever, he has been more than once promi-
nently mentioned. He is a factor in poll
tics In the middle west. Is chairman of
the senate committee on appropriations
l and would make q strong abine member.