Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-02
Coming Inauguration Will Not Create Much Change Within Official Circles Though Few
 Heads May Fall.
Special to the Jsur.a,-Miaer.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-Promise is held out that there will not be even jar when the Roosevelt administra- tion ends and the Taft administration begins on March next. Almost world. wide attention has been attract cd to the coming "merger" of the two administrations. The opinion is freely expressed that history does not record . case of such frictionless change in tho hcadship of . great government. There probably will be fewer i'm. mediate Cabinet changes than ever before marked the incoming of a new President, except in cases where vice president has succeeded. This is due, of course, to Mir. Tsft's having so long been a member of the Roose. welt Cabinet and having associated as such with Mir. Roosevclt's present ad- visers. The only man who has enter ed the Cabinet since Mir. Taft quit if, except Secretary of War Wright with whom he was associated in the Phil ippines, is Mir. Ncwbcrry, who has just succeeded to the Secretaryship of the Navy, and the Presidente elect knows Mir. Ncwbcrry and his qualifi. cations almost as well as he does any other member of the Cabinet. There is no reason, therefore, why he snould not take all the time he wants in making mp his own Cabinet, appoint ing his new members one at time and thus always having experienced hands at the helm. Mir. Taft is the first man to be elected President since Martin Van Buren who served in the Cabinet of his predecessor, and Van Buren, having been elected to the vice presidency, was not in the Cab inet during Jaekson's second admins tration.
 Not only will there be a lack of friction in the executive departments when the new President takes hold, but he will be in harmony to remark able degree with the leaders of his party in Congress. Even "Uncle Joe' Cannon is anxious to "be good' pro yided he is not denied reelection as Speaker. There may be some Repub 1ican "resctionaries" in the Senate but they are keeping mighty quiet about it. The results of the recent election were not such as to encourage obstreper0usness on the part of those statesmen who lack sympathy witf Rooseveltism and progressiveness. II they don't want to beat drum o blow horn, they have at least go to keep step and not make discord
 Heads of Bureaus to Fall.
 The heads that fall in the earl! part of the Taft administration arr likely to be chiefly those of assistan secretaries and important burea' chiefs who failed to show that the. would be useful to the administration These places, much more than place m the Cabinet, are used for the pay ing of political debts. As matter fact, it has ceased to be popular appoint men to Cabinet positions fo purely political considerations. Pre' ident Roosevelt has made but on such appointment. He made Henr c. Payne Postmaster General to pleas and keep peace with Mark Hann and the appointment failed of it's pu pose.
 The duties of a Cabinet member 1 the executive head of one of the gre departments have grown to tremen ously important tat no President cs afford to have weak man in h Cabinet. President Roosevelt has & the example of appointing the vel best men be could find without rcga to geographical considerations (whf formerly were always taken into a count) or even to party lines. He h not hesitated to call Democrats in the. Cabinet, and no one has ev questioned the loyalty of the servi they rendered. It Is not likely, thel fore, that any President of the futu will go back to the old practice
 using Cabinet places as coin for payment of political debts.
 The assistant secretaryships, ho ever, are still considered the leg mate spells of politics. So long
 the President has . man he can tr' at tas head of department,
 doesn't need to worry about the ki of axsistAnts his minister has. If minister doesa't like to trust the
 sistant hs dossn* need to turn [ duties over Co him. That C met