The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-13
HITCHCOCK SEEMS
 SURE OF HIS. JOB Controls Too \ Rany Delegates
 To Be Turne l Out GOSSIP OF THE CAPITAL Director Durand Inclined To Think Married Women Should Not Be
 Retained in Various Departments
GOSSIP OF THE CAPITAL,
BY RALPH NJ. wHIrEsrDE

Washington, November 12.-6speciaL)- Every once in so often the news goes forth that Postmaster General Frank M. Hitchcock is to the rear so far as be- ing political adviser to the administra- ton.
 All such stories may be taken with reservation,9 as the diplomats put 1t.
 As matter of fact if there ever was time when the peculiar political talents of MT. Hitchcock were needed, the days which stretch from now until the next republican convention meets constitutes that period
 President Taft wants a renomination and unless signs fail he will probably have to fight for it. If there is one thing MT. Hitchcock understands per- fectly it is how to get and how to hold delegates. recall they had taken his delegates from him half a dozen times at Chicago, but I noticed they were all there and voting solidly for Taft when the time came. A man of MT. Hitch cocks gifts is too valuable an asset to dispense with just now. Hence have my doubts as to any story of his retirement
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 'eThe married woman must go." That Is the slogan of the unmarried depart ment clerk in these days of economy and retrenchment.
 Census Director Durand is the latest convert to this theory. MT. Durand says;
 "I have not been officially consulted on the subject, but if I should be l should unhesitatingly and emphatically speak out against the practice of employing women who have husbands to support them, or to retain women in the service after marriage. do not think it just
 There are so many single women who have to struggle for themselves and, in many instances, help to support large families, think it but right to give them the preference in employment. There are married women drawing as much as $500 year from Uncle Sam who have husbands earning as much or more.
 yThe injustice of retaining such women is apparent to any unbiased person. Let then go home to their husbands ana De content, and give somebody else chance to earn livelihood.
 .AThere are many married women in the force of approximately 200O employed in this bureau. Some of them, it may be, have husbands unable to support them, owing to some physical disability. AS to such women perhaps the proposed rule might be harsh"
 If the President should carry out the purpose attributed to him of appointing W. II. Lewis, the negro lawyer or Bos- ton, to be assistant Attorney General II will certainly cause lively row In the Senate and it is doubtful If the nomina- ton could be confirmed without bitter fight.
 The question of social precedence IS in- volyed and opposition to placing negro in semi-cabinet rank would not be con- fined to the southern senators.
 The probabilities are that "Uncle Lon Livingston of Georgia, who Will DO a .larne duck,' after March A. nS~st, will onen a law office in Washington when his term in Congress expires, and this furnishes another striking example or the l,,ra of capital life for a man who has long lived here. ,,hou ae Congress for nearly 20 years. He came here as a farmers alliance man, III tue carly nineties, and a dozen youngsters have run against him since without send jne the veteran into retirement hepre- sentative Livingston is now well past the threescore and ten milestone.
 .1Iow time changes the order of thines.v remarked G. D. Peterman or Austin. Tex. He had just nnisned read ing news item which told about the n,irchase of home in the capltal elty by Senator Bailey of Texas.
 .Tnst a few years ago." he continued, .;+ ,ro,,1H have been considered foolhardy for a senator or a representative to buy . home in washington. In one instance, [ remember. an Illinois member of the the uonsa took a chance, and became the owner of a residence. He propaoly thought it a more economic plan to buy than to pay rent. At any rate, he might as we'll have committed suicide, pon'ieai- Constituents resented the idea of his pre- s,,n,ption that they would continue to send him here indefinitely; so they turned hin, down. Now, I understand many of the consressmen own their own washing ton homes, and nothing is thought about it in their districts"