Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-16
THAT CABINET!
The Democrats on Tenter :
Hooks Because OfDelay.
President elect Wilson Keeping
His Own COunse! in Mailer.
Hints at Rebellion at National Capt.
tai These Winter Days.

In the eoakrooms at the Capitol
there are WA. looks and hints at re-
bellion. The thing must stop. They
want to know why the head man of
the party should continue to be
sphinx.
The silence at Trenton is in reality
the cause of news dcarth at Washing
ton.=A mighty eeterie al politicians
are waiting for the signs and portents.
They want the pillar of cloud b. GaE
and the pillar ri fire b. night Great
events in the shaping. II is i'm
portant not alone TO De in the know
but to guide ones self knowingly.
Our political friends who by the tens
and by the hundreds would be leaders
for the folks at home are not accus-
toned to branching out till they know
what the branching viii come to- Rut
letters and other forms of inquiries
are pouring in upon them. The cap
tains and the lieutenants back in the
hamlets and at the fresides crave in
formation.
Two months and less intervene be-
tween the present and the magnificent
inaugural pageantgsen Pennsylvania
o. avenue. IhesfIrzzars OF the, faithful.
49, ..shat Mill engulf the Capitol, the great
56l6x1et On Of the nsnititisdes along a miie
ke uf the great sthoroughfare, the
MS on the monument lot. the
spectacle of the inaugural
md then the days and weeks of
an application to great problems
@nf6a&te already vividly IL aRtici
6. x6A 13E The Democrats at Washing
make p busness-and often
MI Eenuts OF politics.
81 Siif ~ 81 Il l,sSst of their business to
it s III isiif z::ss %adsxance and 20 govern
f6EH34& 68 aecordngly. : When they
6nore Misdom theIi the voters
~ me sef'our Corners. their
&Hidk wanes. They can
tn superiority that is
fSpfsority of information.
&bafta ssment grows in this
Jtause there lis little by
judge the President-slect
Sfpoken in generalities He
M record ofr national questions.
y one eonles to telling just what
IS going 10 dc on q given matter IL
xEeepmes mighty difficult and there IS
Al grave danger Of tie political eoterie
u in Congress going absolutely wrong
Ii some members of the cabinet had
been selected, there would be oppor-
tunity TO forecast Just what kind of
men the President to-be favoTs ana
from that some idea could be had OF
what forces would control The
ratAiifeations in such instances are
almost countless and, as personnel
Y andspoiicies develop, a great many IN
- saterests take their cue infer what
k$fz.sA -sthe ARE 10 expect and adapt them
z2{ sAWes 10 the situation. In every de-
ia tm5nt on the government there are
5f ldefs, Who IN some ca
III SSsther, arc affected by the
~ = tte views of cabinet
f* Then IN every department
sHS1E numerous places TO be filed
j4f1tffent. As soon the new
81 3 mel off ials Is ANNOUNCED, on with
*ax,4fksign for places under him.
Ess WIT MAT halts, now, however, because
xa6tvitystpn only progress about SO
TAR TRe apIdnations for assistant
nj
lostlnastn II gefixfsi Is 81 director ri the
bureau, 81 ssn3yf III LII And printing can
lie fled qdfk 4 l}xSl prosnectiVe Presl-
dent n IN & 5ass5t 81 major, especially
oven sents tos3ffes department to be
kept ON lille by Republicans TIL the
administration changes.
But all that is unsatisfactory II
the new cabinet official were known
hundreds of eager and hungry ones
could up and at him and demand
the pledges for appointment. Per
haps he could not give the final word
for il is not known yet whether MI
Wilson will -want.to make these Sc
lections himself or whether he VIII
want to leave such matters Amos
entirely to the head of the depart
ment as ii has been the policy OF
President Taft to do. Presidents haFe
had very divergent ideas or that sub
ject
The evident purpose To delay an
nouncement of the new cabinet III
we'll up toward the fourth of March,
a as will be seen, is an awful dlsap-
# pontment in political circles. 1t IS
~ keeping upon tender hooks dozen or
more very estimable gentlemen right
here in Congress. to say nothing OF a
score of others pdt in the country,
Some of them have journeyed to the
new Presidents threshold and talked
with him only-to look in vain for any
indication that the matter had been
Asettled in their favor Their friends
Washington and back home have
fired of nquring whether the thing
hesired y going to happen 1t would
~be futile under such regime OF UNI
certainty as now prevails, to make
any false statments and the would De
cabinet membsrs in the House and
Senate (most OF them are in the
Housed are simply settling back IN
despair -and~bracing themselves Tor
announcements that are disappolntns-
Certainly all during the month OF De
cember' and during the early part OF
January no word or hint came from
Jersey as to the selection of any living
man for the cabinet.
This policy has also hurt the feel
ings of that numerous and intellec-
tual order rather brusquely called
knockers. In these tempestuous times
when critics thrive and man comes
into a conspicuous position in the pub
lie service without having Immediately
to dodge the showers of brickbats. it is
almost a cruelty to cut off the supply
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