Arizona republican., 1911-05-13
Resignation Of Secretary
 Dickinson Announced sT|MsON SUCCEEDS HIM
Though the Retiring Secre- tary Urged Pressing Pri- vate Business, It Is Be- lieved That Other Causes Moved Him to Leave.

Washington. May 12-Secretary os War Dickinson. of Tennessee. the dem ocratic member of President Taft's cabinet. has resigned. Henry L. Stim- son of New York. the recently defeated republican candidate for governor of that state. has been given the port folio This announcement was made at the White House tonight.
 In the letters exchanged between the president and Mir Dickinson. no req son. other than pressing private as- fairs. is given for the seCretar-'S re- tirement The president will confer with Stimson at New York tomorrow or Sunday and the new secretary will be sworn in on Monday. MT D;ckin- son will go to his Tennessee home i'm mediately upon the qualification of his successor. He expects to devote his time to private business. He will re- turn to the practice of law in which he was engaged when Mir. Taft ap- pointed him secretary of war in March. 1909
 He Is the second member of Presl- dent Taft's cabinet to retire to private life. Secretary BalIinger having re- signed recently COincident with the announcement of Mir. Dickinson's re- tirement came that of the appointment of C. $. Millington of Herkimer. Ky. to be assistant treasurer of the United States in New York
 Mir. Stims0n was the Roosevelt can- didate for governor. while Millington. a former member of the house. is @ close friend of Vice President Sherman. The two appointments gre c, nSidered tO be a significant move in the direc- tion of peace between the Roosevelt Parsons and the Sherman Barnes Woodruff factions.
 UnOfficially Washington discussed with relish the resignation of the sec retary of war and found other reasons for it than that given in his letters Mir. Dickinson is democrat His presence in the cabinet of d republican president was not looked upon with favor by some of Mir. Taft's political advisors who were of the opinion that the of flee of secretary of war should be held by someone of the presidents own party and who also pointed out that MT. Dickinson might prove a source of em- barrassment when the 1912 presiden- tial campaign begins Naturally Mir Dickinson often found in the discus sion by the cabinet of party measures a personal embarrassment.
 Some officials think that Mir Dick inson incurred criticism by his con- duct Of the war office AS was pointed out recently there had been reports of friction over the Mexican situation between the state and war department. In some quarters it was asserted that Secretary Knox was being Overshad- owed by MT Dickinson and there were reports that the former contemplated resigning but these were met by off cial denials There had been no hint that Dickinson contemplated retire. ment
 The president moved swiftly when he found that he had to select a new st cretary of war on Wednesday night Secretary Hilles was dispatched to New York. He met StimsOn the next day but the latter wished to consult with his father who was then on the At lantic bound for Europe. MT HilIcs caHe back to Washington and MT. StimsOn resorted to the wireless.
 His fathers answer. advising lim to accept came today and late this after noon he called up the White House by long distance telephone and said he would he glad to enter the cabinet. The deal was closed right then and the president who was waiting to go to a garden party in the White House grounds. gave sigh of genuine relief.
 The appointment of Mir. Stimson will give New York two members in the cabinet. Attorney General Wickersham being resident of that state MT. Stimson had had no special military training but in talking to friends the president expressed the belief that he was the sort of man who could come to the war department and quickly get the swing of affairs.
 Secretary Dickinson was in fine spirits tonight. 'I am just going
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