The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-30

dor David Jayne Hill, Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, Robert
Bacon of New York.
Secretary Of the treasury-George l..
Won Meyer Of Massachusetts, Charles
G. Dawes of Illinois, George B. Cor
telyou of New York.
Secretary of war-Luke E. Wright of
Tennessee, Charles E. Magoon Of Ne
braska.
Attorney general-Frank B. Kellogg
of Minnesota.
Postmaster generdl-Frank H. Hitch
cock of Massachusetts.
Secretary of the navy-William Loeb
of New York, Truman H. Newberry
of Michigan, George L. Knight of Cal
ifornia.
Long Suggested for Interior.
Secretary of the interior-Wade Ellis
of Ohio, Chester I. Long of Kansas, c.
Bascom Slemp of Virginia.
Secretary of agriculture-James Will
son of Iowa.
Secretary of commerce and labor
Charles w. Fulton of Oregon.
AS a matter of fact cabinet prophec-
les are the merest political dope, and
yet there are scores of dopesters who
delight in their art. The prophecies
which have been made thus far seem
to have been based particularly on the
knowledge of the personal makeup and
inclinations of Mr.. Taft, taken with
certain political promises which the
sequence of past events seem to have
promised and produced.
In view of the close relationship be-
tween Theodore Roosevelt and Nom
inee Taft it would seem highly prob
able that considerable portion of the
Roosevelt cabinet would become iden-
titled with the Taft cabinet, in event
of Republican victory. And yet the
most striking part of the prognostica-
lions, to date. is the notable absence
- 1xr4c IN, "a
1t must be said, however, on the other
hand, that presidents in the past have
rarely drawn upon the cabinets of
their predecessors in selecting their
political family.
The Oldest Cabinet Man.
The fact that James Wilson of Iowa
continues without opposition as
secretary of agriculture on all the
states of all the different cabinet
cabinet prophets is a striking testi-
monial of the splendid work which
this splendid man has done in the
| long and continuous years during
| which he has been identified with this
| work.
Secretary Wilson has today been
| longer in cabinet services than any
other man. He is an agriculturisi
himself by birth, training and inclina-
| ton. For years prior to this entrance
| in Washington politics he was direc-
| tor of the agricultural experiment sta
ton and professor of agriculture al
Iowa Agricultural college at Ames. He
| became secretary of agriculture March
| 5, 1897, in the first cabinet of Presi-
dent Mckinley. From that day to this
he has served without a break. He
has held his position because of the
| splendid development which he has
| produced in the work of this depart
ment 1t seems extremely probable
he will continue in the harness. If ht
so desires, through the administration
of another president. provided Away.
that the new president is to continut
! Republican.
| The cabinet prophets seem to be-
particularly shy of material for some
of the places farthest down the list
Thus far the only man they have sug
/, gested for secretary of commerce ant
| labor is Senator Fulton of Oregon
who has just been defeated by Demo.
crat in the oregon primaries for re-
| election.
The Taft Bureau.
| IT seems quite probable that Luke
| E. Wright of Tennessee will continue
as secretary Of war in view of the fac
! that he has only just entered the