The Forrest City times., 1912-12-20

democratic colleagues for ,r... rresident-elect Wilson set as,S as 'na, ciVii service executive order os r 'aa aeh' iait as soon after March . .es' possible. A good many of tba D. as ilcans are willing to confess epae would have been hard blow suae 1t party organization if years s. 'nelr the postmasters of the countrn al been removed from the field n, .a aaa tlcal appointments. They s.n poii would have resented 1t and th.. .aey cannot honestly complain becsn.ss su.s the Democrats now are seeking ause to "n pare to have the order rescindea 2. e nepubiicans of course say tha, n' .n postmasters ought to be kent =. .ae clvil service list. but that tb,. .ue naturally does not prevent Democrs,,s. . resentment because the order ws. sued just at time to do dam.r
 the faithful who have been wa,.,' " long for preferment. s
 For years labor has asked tb,t.
 department of government should x. created to deal alone with labor n,as iems with labor member In ,n presidents cabinet as it's nres,d,a chief. Not long before he set soi, s. Bermuda. President-elect W;Ison
 pressed a desire to have a labor chic, IF his family circle. The Repuhlican. Ill the past have not been averso = the establishment of labor den,r, ment. The Democrats in the mo,. seem to be for it, and so it is nrobah,a that one of the legislative acts of mn. ment of the present session will be ', establish such a department and to give MT. Wilson the right to name an additional member of the cabinet
 Moving Day Approaches.
 To a great many people Wash. ington will not be Washington aft. CT March 4. The day following ina inauguration, or at any rate soms day not far removed from it will he moving day" for hosts of long tina Washington residents, calling them. selves temporary residents, but hop ing that as the years went on thsy finally might write the adjective per manent" before the noun.
 What changes will take place in Washington in the personnel of the existing office forces? We'll of course first and foremost there is the pres. dent who must move with his family and his law library to the old home on the banks of the Ohio river. Prior to the day of moving from the White House Mir. Taft will entertain for two days his coming successor as chief executive, and the successors good wife
 Philander Chase Knox, the secre. tary of state, on March will give way to William Jennings Bryan pos sibly, or certainly to some other good Democrat of the country Mr. Knox has been in Washington in one official capacity or another for good many years, and he has a fine old home on K street where with Mrs Knox he entertains in hospitable spirit Republicans. Democrats, Pro gressiveRepublicans and Progressives alike, to say nothing of foreigners and the casual American visitors to Wash ington. It is said that MT. Knox will move only from the state department and that he will keep his K street house for nine months year and will spend the other three months in the state Of Pennsylvania which, after he had been attorney general in the Roosevelt cabinet sent him to the sen ate.
 MacVeaah Will Not Depart.
 Franklin MacVeagh, secretary ol the treasury, Is the only other caoi net officer who will not move from Washington when some good Demo cratic financier takes his seat in the big building where Uncle Sans money is kept. Two years ago next Cnrist mas day Mrs Franklin MacVeagn presented her husband with mouse on Sixteenth street MT. MacVeagn from the windows of his residence a' the time saw the Christmas gift bulla. ing rising stone by stone only oiocA or two away, but he had no ldea "nO was building 1t or who was to ilVe it Finally 1t was completed ano' a' the children say, the secretary or tn' treasury found the new residence his stocking" on Christmas mornins with the Merry Christmas cara '. his wife attached. MT MacVeagn, is understood, will not return to 'n' cago, but will continue to ll'e 'A Washington in his holiday gift house'
 Secretary of Commerce ana Lapv' Charles Nagel will return to St. hou'' to take up the practice of the iaN
 Secretary of the Interior Wai'ei I Fisher will return to Chicago to oOa tinue the course of court pleading anu of closet counseling which he folloNss before MT Taft called him to "''D ington. ,,,,t
 Attorney General George w. ",.n ,.m ersham also will return to the Sa, and probably will become ilera ws-t again of the old established New firm with which he severed ms ssh nection when bidden to come 'o wa