Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-24
Possible That Congressman
Burton, of Ohio, Will Become
Secretary OF State
WILSON OF IOWA MAY REMAIN
Will Be Retained by Taft Unless He
Insists on Retiring From Public Life
Kellogg, of Minnesota, May Be
Made Attorney General - Many
Changes Will Be Made.

Especial Washington Correspondence
Washington, June 2i.-Secretary
Taft, having been made the republican
nominee for president, many Of his
friends have now begun to make his
cabinet. The work of cabinet making
will be kept up indefinitely and it will
possess almost an infinite variety. 1t
will go on in rather vague fashion UNI
til the November elections, and, IL Mr..
Taft is elected, it will become more
specific from that time forward until
the inauguration.
1t is generally taken for granted that
IL Mr.. Taft becomes president he will
choose practically new cabinet to
surround him and advise with him.
Secretary of State. Root no doubt
would gladly be retained by Mr.. Taft
as head Of the state department, but
it is not believed Mr.. Root wants to
stay. Other cabinet members who are
looked on as likely to give up their po-
sitions are Secretary Of the Treasury
Cortelyou. Attorney General Bonaparte.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf, Secre
tary Straus of the Department. OF
commerce and labor, and Secretary of
War Luke L. Wright. So far as Sec
rotary James Wilson, Of the depart
ment of agriculture. is concerned, it
will probably rest with himself wheth-
er he remains. He and MIR. Taft are
close friends, but when Mr.. Wilson
has served to the end of the Roosev
administration he will have longer
cabinet career than any other official
has had since the republic was found
ed, and it is. possible he may want to
retire. Whether James r. Garfield will
BE- retained as head of the interior de-
partment is matter about which
there is much difference of opinion. 1t
is generally expected that postmaster
General Meyer will be retained in the
Taft cabinet and that he will be sec
rotary of the treasury.
New Order Is Reported.
The following is a Slate for the
Taft cabinet that many of the wisest
of the seers and prophets believe will
go thru: Secretary of state, Repre-
sentative Theodore e. Burton. of Ohio;
Secretary of the treasury, Postmaster
General George Won L. Meyer; attorney
general, Frank B. Kellogg, of Minne-
sofa; secretary of war, Charles f, Ma
COON, of Nebraska, or General Clar-
ence r. Edwards, now chief of the bu-
reau OF insular affairs; postmaster
general Frank II. Hitchcock. who has
been manager of the Washington
in the Taft cambaign;
secretary of the navy, Truman II.
Of Michigan, now assistant
secretary of the navy, or Robert Bacon.
of New York, now assistant secretary
Of state: secretary of the interior. At
torney General Wade Ellis, of Ohio. or
Secretary Garfield; secretary of asgri-
culture, James Wilson, of Iowa, or Gift
ford Pinchot, now chief of the bureau
Of forestry; secretary of commerce and
labor, William Loeb, of New York, now
private secretary to President Roose-
welt
1t seems probable it will rest largely
with Mr.. Burton himself whether he
becomes head of the state department
If Mr.. Taft becomes president. No one
questions the eminent fitness OF Mr.
Burton for the place He measures up
to it fully in brains and character, |
and in the ability to command that re-
spect that it is essential the head of |
the state department should COM
mand 1t may be that Mr.. Burton's
friends in Ohio will send him to the
senate to succeed Senator Foraker, al
tho this is hardly expected. If he IS
not sent to the senate, it is the ex-
pectation here he will be asked to take
the state portfolio.
Consideration of the treasury de-
partment brings up, the interesting
question of the future of Secretary
George B. Cortelyom. Mr.. Cortelyou
was generally credited with an ambi-
ton to be vice president, but this did
not materialize The chief reason why
the movement for Mr.. Cortelyou gained
no impetus was that Secretary Taft
did not want Mr.. Cortelyou to have
second place. It was the feeling of
Mr.. Taft that both members of the
ticket should not be picked from the
cabinet. Under such circumstances,
The probabilities are against the re-
.ention of Mr.. Cortelyou in the cabinet,
and no one in Washington would be