The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-03

president.elect would not be an honor
20 kim or TO the state.
The effort to get Mr.. Henry appoint
ed to the cabinet is moving along
smoothly, at least as far as indorse-
ments and newspaper mention is con-
cerned. Mr.. Henry has placed no IN
hilition on his colleagues writing let
tcrs to the presidentelect, and many
Of his friends in congress, includIh"
most of the members of /the TEXAS
delegation it is said have written,
indorsing him for a place in tie cat
iret. However. the presuentelec'
Is said to be having more real i"ou-
bles than deciding what TO do about
Mitchell Palmer, Of Pennsy!vania,
Albert S. Burleson of Texas or Rob
L. Henry of Texas.
If the cabinet-making keeps him
awake at nights, he is supposed TO
be losing sleep over what to do about
the department of the interior. Here,
grave problems of state are involved.
Here. extremes in conservation, ex-
tremes in federal concentrations and
e, tremes in states rights are bat
Ting to become accepted national
policies, with Indian scandals, land
frauds and Alaskan and Hawaiian
pressures, to give full measure OF
complexity to the selection.
Might Retain Fisher.
For some time there have been ru-
mors that Mr. Wilson would retain
Secretary Fisher as the head of tie
Interior department.
While these rumors have been
pure guesses, based principally upon
the fact that Mr.. Wilson has con-
suited with several progressive re-
pLblicans who are very partial to Mr.
Fisher and upon the further belief that
Mr.. Crane of Chicago, the progress
i've who stood by the Wilson candi-
Gucy very selfishly. wants Mr.. Fisher
retained, there is a growing feeling
that there is some degree of proba-
bllity in the Fisher rumors.
1t is not believed, however, Mr.
Wilson would retain Secretary Fisher
in his cabinet as fixture, but that
because OF the importance Of tie post
at the juncture, he may want to take
his time and thoroughly acQuant
himself with all the details of the
work, before selecting head for that
department. Under such circumstanc'
es. Secretary Fisher might be pre-
VI lied upon the remain in the cabinet
until the president would be ready to
act.
Democrats Look for a Surprise.
Democrats who are beginning to be
impressed with the possibility in the
Fisher rumors pre',r to take this
latter view of the matter, yet in the
same breath tat, o,e ready ~ ron
cede that Mr.. Wilson may J"rpr!S'
the country by striking out boldly ant
independently in the matter of max
ing his cabinet
In the Meantime, President-elect ct
Wilson keeps his counsel. sometimes
bristling up over Mnwarranted con
clusions by politicians and newspa
| pcrs, but in the main everything con
tinues pretty well bottled up arount
Trenton The leakiest United States
senator departs from under the spell
of the president.elect thoroughly air
tight, and warranted not to leak fol
at least two weeks, and then when
he undertakes to tell the most obvious
and most plausible thing about the
next administration he knits his brow
elevates his index finger and begins
thus: "Now, mind you, this is net
based on anything that Gov. Wilson
has said, but putting this and that t.
gether don't you see, the matte;
stands about like this" etc.
Thus in the most convincing an,
plausible way, he relates new cab
iret member here and other there
and all that is needed is for Gov
| Wilson to uncork and blow into th'
nostrils of these creations the breat}
of political life.