Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-01-16
WILSON HAS NOT GIVEN OUT
THE NAME or a SINGLE MAI
FOR HIGH OFFICE.
TALKS ONLY ABOUT POLICIES
He is Eager to Learn the Probable
Amount Of Antaeonlsm His Leg
lsIatlon May Encounter in the
Senate.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

4 D00n so sell constrained dS 10 fFOOd-
row Wilson on the subject of prospec-
/ tive cabinet appointments and other
| appointments to high government OF.
/ fees. Today there is not Democrat
ic leader in congress apparently who
/ can say that he knows one man who
is certain to be appointed to high Of
/ fee by the incoming Democratic pres
/ ident.
Ever since Mr.. Wilson same back
from Bermuda the Democratic leaders
1 have been comforting with him.
| The trains between Washington and
| Trenton have been heavy laden with
| passengers of national prominence go
ing to the source of knowledge, to
come back again with very little
knowledge about the things of great
est personal interest. Mr.. Wilson, the
/ returning Democratic leaders admit,
is not of a mind to commit himself in
any way definitely upon the subject of
the composition of his cabinet until
he is certain that he has weighed all
| the recommendations and all the OBJ
| jections and has found out to the
nicely of q fraction all that he wants
to know about the men whom he
would like to invite to membership In
his official family.
It must not be understood from
this that Mr.. Wilson has declined to
| talk freely with the Democratic lead
ers. He has had and IL having con-
ferences lasting for several hours with
the men Of greater prominence In his
party. It Is known definitely In
Washington, however, that nine
tenths of the time consumed at the
conference is given over to the dis
cussion OF policies rather than men.
| Mr. Wilson is anxious to learn from
the men of his party Of long expert
ence in congress just what chance leg.
islation which he may propose has
of being enacted into law.
Expects Antagonist In Senate.
The president-elect has a keen ap-
probation of the fact that the Dem.
ocratic membership In the senate Is
an uncertain quantity in certain mat
tiers Of party policy. He knows that
there are ultra-conseryative Demo
Gratis in the senate whom their more
progressive, or radical, If you will, |
brethren go SO far as to call Repub-
licans with a little veneer of Democ.
racy. It is known from what the lead.
ers say that Mr.. Wilson fears that
some of his policies upon which he
viii make strongly progressive recon- |
mendations are not to the liking, In |
their outlined form, of some of the
Democrats In the senate So 1t ie |
that Mr. Wilson is anxious to learn In
advance from the members OF his |
party just how much antagonism he |
may expect In the senate, and what
II anything he must concede In order
to insure united Democratic support |
Of such legislation as he may pro
pose.
There Is some fear, It is known, on |
Mr.. Wilson's part, that the Democrats |
In the senate win decline to sanction |
tariff revision in the form of some OF I
the provisions which will be put into |
the bill by, the house OF representa-
6ves which, under the constitution, |
must initiate all tarin legislation |
Asks More Than He Answers.
Every Democratic leader who goes |
to see Mr. Wilson is asked concern
ing the legislative outlook. It is said |
the president-elect asks ten questions |
to one that he answers. The anti |
trust legislation, currency legislation. |
conservation along state rather than |
national lines, and some other things. |
added to the tariff, form the chief sub |
jects of the president-elect's present |
day interests. He knows what he |
wants to do, and he wants to know |
what chance there is for him to
do It,
Mr.-Wilson may have made up his |
mind upon every place In the cabinet |
but he has not spoken his mind. As |
soon as Democratic leader gets into |
the president-elect's office at Trenton |
he is piled with questions about leg. |
islation and the outlook for Demo |
cratic concord In congress. When leg. |
islation has been discussed for an /
hour or two, Mr. Wilson turns to his |
caller and says: What do you think T
about the cabinet?" Then his caller /
tells him that he thinks such and
such man would be an ideal person
for secretary Of the treasury or secre-
tary Of state or for one OF the other I
high positions. Mr.. Wilson listens at |
tentively, and answers-no1hing.
Four years ago this month the |
names of several men who were to be
In Mr.. Ta4t's cabinet were known |
with enough de1niteness to make the |
country easy in the belief that it had /
guessed right. Mr.. McKinley's cab |
met was pretty well known two
months and a half in advance of his
inauguration. Theodore Roosevelt
succeeded" to a cabinet when he /
became president of the United |
states, and so his case cannot be used
as precedent. Democrats with long |
memories say that Mr.. Cleveland's |
cabinet was pretty well known far IN
advance of his coming into ONCE. and
then they add that IL there is anv /
man who knows whom Mr.. Wilson *
going to put in his cabinet he Ia Il
man who knows how to keen his ouv,