Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-15
MANY OF OUR
AMBASSADORS
ARE TO Retire
BEST PLUMS WILSON HAS
Many Places Require Men Of
Wealth, 1t Seems

/ ton of the cabinet itself, is the task
which will confront President-elect
Woodrow Wilson on March next, Of
naming a new corps of diplomatic rep
Iresentatives for the United States in
foreign capitals. The vacancies that
will occur, probably by resignation, in
cude 10 ambassadorships and the
posts of 80 ministers.
/ Owing to the fact that many of
/ these positions, especially those Of am
bassador, offer but little, comparative
/ ly, in the way of compensation, and the
expense of keeping up the establish
ment is sometimes greater than the
pay, while the duties are eXacting and
arduous, makes it difficult in many
cases to obtain an available candidate.
The terms of office of ambassadors
and ministers are indefinite, to be held
at "the pleasure of the president"
There is not even a law which would
require an incumbent to give up his
place at the end of presidential term.
But a custom has arisen wherein resig
nations are pretty generally handed in,
just as in the case of cabinet officers
at the examinations of one administra-
/ ton and the beginning of another This
/ is especially trre when the new admin
istration is of 4 different political pa
ty.
/ Usually # the president is not ready
| to name a new IL preventative at par
/ ticular post, the oftit al holding the po-
sition is asked to remain until an ap-
I pointment is Llade.
! The three big prizes in the diplo-
matte field, so regarded by men who
are able financially as well as other
wise, to allow a ray of hope to enter
their breasts, are the embassy posts
at London, Berlin and Paris. The sal
airy of the ambassadors at these capi-
tails is $17,500 annually, being the
same as those paid to the ambassa-
doris to Austria-H Hungary, Brazil Italy,
Japan, Mexico Russia and Turkey, but
the places are more alluring because
of the social and p litical prestige that
goes with them.
/ One of the notable foreign represen-
tatives who will soon relinquish his
position is Whitelaw Reid, ambassa-
dor at London He has served since
/ 1885 John G. A. Leishman, ambas-
sadOr at Berlin, has served a much
shorter time at his present post, al
though his service in the diplomatic
corps began in 1887, when he was APP
he became minister to Turkey, hold
ing that position when the legation
was raised to an embassy, in 1906. In
1909 he was transferred to the post at
Rome from which place he went to
Berlin. A comparative newcomer N
the diplomatic field is Myron T. Mer-
rick, ambassador at Paris He was
appointed last winter, having prev
iously been governor of Ohio.
While the air is rife with specula-
ton as to where and upon whom will
fall the cabinet plums, very little has
been vouchsafed as yet as to the
probi BILE appointees to the important
diplo matte places.
ri name of Charles r. Crane, OF
Clitago, who was vice chairman OF
Coz Wilson's campaign finance COM
nlittse, has been suggested as one who
might fill an Enthusiastically
Mr.. Crane, in addition to devoting
his tiTe personally to the Wilson cam
paisn, was large contributor to the
popular fund which aided in bringing
ahoCt democratic success. Mr. Crane
inhe rited an immense fortune from
Ills Ia,her, Robert Crane, Chicago
manufacturer. Several years age
President Taft appointed him minister
to China, but the appointment was
withdrawn just as he was on the eve
Of .ailing from San Francisco for his
post of duty.
Others mentioned as being fitted t.
3cc.,py foreign posts are David z
F"'ncis, of st. Louis, a former mem
Ter of the Cleveland cabinet; Rudolph
Spreckles, of California, who was
chairman of the progressive republi-
tan Wilson league in the recent cam
paish, and Edgar H. Farrar, of New
Orleans, former president of the Amer
lean Bar association.
Many prominent citizens of the
United States sojourning in foreign
lands as the official diplomatic rep
resentatives of this government. will
return to take up their permanent
abode here during next summer. In.
cluded in this list is Richard c. ke-
rens, St Louis millionaire, who wa
appointed ambassador to Austria
Hun arv hv President Taft after the
election of four years ago, Mr.. Re
rens had been heavy contributor "a
the republican campaign fund.
The stay of Curtis Guild, of Massa-
chusetts, in Russia, where he went as
ambassador likewise will be shorten
ed by the success of the democrats
Others likely to give up their places
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