Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-03-07
McREYNoLDs, RuMoR HAS IT,
MAY BE APPOINTED AS NEW
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
FARRAR is ALSO MENTIONED
Selections Of Bryan, McAdoo, Daniels
and Burlcson Ccrtair1--New
Place to Be
Filled.

ton now centers about the attorney
yeneralship and report that James
c. McReynolds, of New York, is fore
most among those under consideration
Cor the place by President-elect Will
son. Coupled with Mr.. McReynolds'
lame as probability for this port
eoiio is that of Edgar H. Farrar, of
New Orleans, former president of the
.merican Bar association.
Gossip Eliminates Farrar.
Men high in Democratic councils &C.
clare that McReynolds and Farrar have
ieen under consideration for some
time, but that late developments seem
to point to the selection OF the form er,
who was assistant attorney general in
l9O3-07 and has long been specially re-
te ined Ky the United States in trust
prosecutions.
Though Democrat, Mr.. McReynolds
was engaged to prosecute the govern
ments suit against the tobacco trust
and had charge of that case from the
beginning until the dissolution Of the
American Tobacco company. He made
a particular study of the tobacco trade
and manufacturing conditions and
when it came to the arrangements for
the dissolution decree his knowledge
of the tobacco brands and the intrica-
cies of the trust organization proved
of great value.
Native Of Kentucky.
Mr.. McReynolds is native of Ken
lucky, graduate of the law depart
ment of the University of Virginia and
practiced law for many years in Nash
vile, Tenn. He located in New York
in 1907.
Other developments OF the day
served to confirm the finality of the Sc
lections of Messrs. Bryan, McAdoo,
Daniels and Burleson, and to disclose
various steps by which other names
gradually have been eliminated from
consideration.
1t developed also that Representa-
tive A. Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsyl-
vania, has been offered and had de-
clined the war portfolio, assigning as
the grounds for his declination that he
was Quaker whose antecedents did
not comport with the direction of the
war establishment.
Another Portfolio Declined.
Another definite offer of cabinet
portfolio disclosed was that to Mayor
Baker, of Cleveland, which also was
declined because of public interests
Mr.. Baker had at Cleveland.
CiH of
the day were largely negative, show
ing how the field had been narrowed
by the exclusion of all holdovcr posi-
bilities from the present cabinet; also
the conclusion that there would be
no names drawn from the senate or
house of representatives other than
that Of Mr.. Burleson.
The remaining cabinet names are
now said to be settled, but the places
each is to occupy still remains open
to change. These cover the attorney
generalship, secretary of interior, Sec
rotary of commerce and labor and sec
rotary of agriculture.
An Additional Place.
1t is probable also that the position
os secretary of labor will be created
within the next few days, the senate
having passed the house bill, so that
Mr.. Wilson will have an additional
cabinet place to fill
The personnel of these remaining
places is not disclosed, but gossip was
active yesterday including Mr.. Bran
deis in the list, probably as secretary
Of commerce and labor.