The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-03-01
BRYAN KICKS OUT Of HARNESS.
REPORTED FAILURE TO DICTATE
WILSON CABINET.
Ncbraskan Will not Accent Portfolio
Unless Certain Selections Meet with
His Approval, According to Late
Rcports-Wants Henry as Attor-
Yorker for Secretary of Treasury.

Washington, Feb. 24.-Washington
is agog with the news that at the last
moment Mr.. Bryan is baking at 60
ing into the Wilson Cabinet, after it
had become generally understood that
the Nebraskan would take the port
folio of Secretary of State under the
/ incoming President and thus pay to
the latter what Sir Robert Peel de-
clared to be the greatest tribute one
political leader could render to an
! other-an acknowledgment of super
| iOrity by the acceptance of a subor-
dinate position.
The cause of the trouble, which is
doubtless also the cause Of the unpre-
ccdented closeneSs with which the
names Of Cabinet selections have been
guarded by the next president, is be-
'ieved to be the complications which
have existed with regard to two or
three porfOrlios, and in one case at
least with regard to rivalry between
two men from the same State for the
one portfolio-whicheve it may be
likely to go to that States credit. Mr..
Bryan it is rumored with persistency,
has intimatcd that he will not serve in
the Wilson Cabinet at all unless the
makeup of it is personally satisfac-
tory to himself as we'll as to the Pres
ident who selects it.
That is the same thing as saving
that as a price for his consent to be-
come Secretary Of state Che would
really prefer to be Secretary of the
Treasury, but knows that it is out of
the question: Mr.. Bryan must be
allowed TO exercise the veto on sug-
gestions which Mr.. Wilson may make
for the other Cabinet places.
In other words, the Bryan attitude
appears to be that if he enters the
Cabinet other positions therein are
to be filled with his advice and con-
sent, the President doing the nomi
mating as If he were sending names
the Senate Of the United States; which
means that if Mr. Wilson were to
accede to the Bryan ultimatum-if
ultimatum it be--the most important
selections made for the Cabinet of the
new Administration, with the single
exception of Mr. Bryan himself,
would have to run successfully two
advice-and-cOnsent gauntlets, Mr..
Bryan's first and then the Senate.
Two portfolios have played the
chief parts in the tie-up between Will
son and Bryan. The first is believed
here to be the filing of the treasury
Nebraskan has set his face against
the appointment of any New York
business man, or any man particul-
arly close to New York business, as
Secretary Of the Treasury. The names
which have been heard most in con-
noction with this position have been
those of W. G. McAdoO, builder of the
Hudson tunnels, and Henry Morgcn-
thau, who lives in New Jersey but is
regarded financially as a New Yorker.
1t is we'll known that Mr.. Bryan
considers the places OF Secretary Of
the Treasury and Attorney General
the really vital ones in the Cabinet Of
any President, in spite of the inter
national prestige carried hy the port
folio of state. The Ncbraskan en-
joys the idea of world-power, out
power in the United States of Amcri-
ca is the consideration which is first
in his mind. For that reason he
quickly put aside the seductive sug-
gcStion that he would make an admir-
able ambassador to Great Britain.
He said that he would not think Of
leaving this country, not only because
he didn't wish to- but because he be-
licvcd ne could do more good at home.
Now for the Attorney Gcncralship.
Two considerations affect Mr. bryan
with reference to that. First he
wishes it filed with man of what
he regards as the right sort" for
the job-that is, man who is
"Bryanitc" in his views and extremely
aggressive in maintaining them. Sec
ond, he wishes it flied by the Hon.
Robert L. Henry, Of Texas chairman
Of the committee on rules in the
iIu":o Of Representatives and sec
ono edition Of himself (although
Henry was once law partner of the
'unsPcahahlc' senator EailcyD Third
Mr.. Bryan wishes to keep the Hon.
Albert l.. EuricSun, of TcNas, chair
man OF tn, Democratic caucus of the
House, ont # the Wilson Cabinet. and
the appointment Of Henry would 2c-
/ commit & shat l..,.lfL... tl.r.. i.,