The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
BRANDEIS ON LIST.
p resident-EIect Wilson Listens
to Protests.
Doubt Is Removed as to Cabinet
Selection.
OBJECTIONS NOT STRONG.
vi Massachusetts Politicians Make
No Impression.
Is Family Affair. Says
Coming Chief.
OBJECTIONS NOT STRONG.

~ j there
doubt about the appointment to posi-
tIon in the cabinet of Louis frandeis
or Massachusetts. il was removed when
formal protest was made against his
election by Thomas P. Riley. of Boston.
chairman of the Massachusetts Demo-
cratic state committee and Humphrey
y Sullivan. of Lowell
These gentlemen had been trying for
week to get audience with the
presi6ent-elect. but Mr. Wilson. know
ing well the subject they wished to
discuss. had not encouras ed them TO
come here. They walked into the build
ing today unexpected and unannounced
and waited around until the president
elect came out of his private office
for a moment Then they tackled him.
and for a few moments they poured
into his impatient ears all the objec-
tons to Mr.. Brandeis that they could
think of. The conversation became
loud enough at times for others
in the room TO hear the drift of the
, talk.
1t is reported that the president-eiect
: told his visitors that he regarded his
cabinet as family affair and that he
proposed to appoint whOmever he
chose Moreover. it is understood. ne
made it plain that he did not regard
the objections to Brandeis as of sui
ficent Importance to be weighed
against him
MIR. Brandeis. it is understood. is on
the president-eIect's list for the position
CT secretary of commerce and labor.
A Mitchell Palmer has been on the
slate for the attorney generalship. but
a recent shift in the cabinet candidates
has made Chancellor Edwin r. Walker.
of New Jersey the proba BILE selection
The president-elect thinks highly of
Mr. Walker The chancellor drew up
his seven corporation bills for him.
Chancellor Walker has great legal abil-
all IA I79+ n
of this type are generally averse to
accepting the position of attorney gen.
eraI Presidents have nearly always
had trouble in finding men of high at
tainments who would be willing to un-
dertake the duties of this office at a
sacrifice of their own private and more
remunerative practice Walker has no
private practice to sacrifice and is said
to be willing to take the attorney gen.
eralship.
Bryan Has Accepted.
The remainder of the positions have
been practically decided upon and
the president-elect is now recelv-
ing acceptances or declarations
as the case NAV be- Mr. Bry-
an has already accepted the secre-
tary of state portfolio and Will
lam G. McAdoo of New York. Governor
Edwin L. Norris. of Montana Repre-
sentative Albert Burleson- of Texas.
Josephus Daniels. of North Carolina
Charles r. Crane. of Illinois. and
Obediah Gardner. of Maine. will prob
ably be found in the list Colonel E NJ
House of Texas. may be selected instead
of Burlesou. but it is understood he is
willing to stand aside for Burleson-
The president elect. however. would like
to induce House to accept the secre-
taryship of agriculture. Whether or
not the old rule against the selection
of two from the same state VIII hold
in this case is probIematic- Presi-
dent-elect Wilson has not much regard
for old political rules.
The preSident-eIect. in his converse
tons with the newspaper correspond
ents is as guarded as ever in his speech
whenever the ca binet is referred to. As
an illustration when his attention was
called today to a dispatch from Wash
inEton saying that space in the in
auguraI grandstand had been set aside
for the cabinet. he replied that he
knew this to be untrue because he had
examined the plan of the stand
There is a little space behind the
glass case in which I am to have for
my guests
VIII members of the cabinet be
among your guests?' he was asked
IF 1 answered in the affirmative
YOU would next ask for q list for my
guests was the laughing rejoiner