Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-25
MCAdOO and Cabinet Chances

FTNEIE elder Harrison is the only Pres-
l. dent who left office without making
changes in the. Cabinet with which he
entered it. And Harrison died within a
few weeks of his Inauguration.
There have thus far been three changes
in the Cabinet of Mr.. Wilson. When Sec
retary McAdoo's Successor is appointed
only fourteen men will have held the ten
positions. There were nine positions i'll
the Cabinet when Roosevelt was President
and twenty.nne men held them. There
were from two to six different men in every
office save that OF Secretary of Agricul-
ture. james Wilson presided in the Agri-
cultural Department through three admin
istrations, beginning with Mckinley and
ending with Taft, record not equaled by
any other Cabinet officer from the begin
ming of the Republic
MIR. McADOO retires nov for personal
AVA reasons. He says tat there are no
others, and his word must be accepted.
He has served six years at great personal
sacrifice and must now devote himself to
his private business. He says he would
have retired at tho end of Mr.. Wilson's
first term if the war had not begun. He
remained until the armistce signed
and three Gays later wrote his resignation.
Mr. Wilson kept 1t a week before accept
ing it, and as soon as the acceptance was
| in his hands Mr.. McAdoo took the public
into his confidence.
TIME other retirements from Mr.. Wilson's
L Cabinet were not made so amiably. The
hat nf y Rryan The IiSfiD-
guished and extnguisDed Nebraskan was
taken into the Cabinet for purely political
| reasons. The friends of Mr.. Wilson eX-
planned that it was thought more comfort
able to have him inside the camp throw
| ing stones out than to have him outside
| throwing stones in But as soon as his
| fitness for the post was put TO the test he
! failed. He was signing vigorous notes to
| Germany, written by the President and
| at the same time telling the Austrian am
| bassador that Mr.. Wilson did not mean
what he said, but was talking only for
| political effect at home. When Ambassa-
| dor Gerardr reported from Berlin what the
| German Foreign Secretary told him about
Mr.. Bryans communications to the Aus
| trian ambassador in Washington the Sec
kretary Of State resigned, and issued three
or four broadsdes explaining his position.
1t is believed in Washington that his res
| ignation was asked for, though there is
no authoritative information on the sub
ject. A distinguished Californian who was
\ passing through the capital at the time
was taken to call on the former Secretary
of State by a mutual friend, and the Cali
| fornian reported to his acquaintance that
he had never before seen u man so com
pletely dazed and dumfounded by the fate
which had overtaken him.
TIME elimination of Mr.. Bryan marked
| i the first break in Mr.. Wilson's official
family The next came, when Lindley Nj.
Garrison, his Secretary of Var, resigned
summaruy after the p 'esdent reversed his
position on the plans Of the War Depart
ment for strengthening the army. Mr..
Garrison had devised a plan, in cohsulta
tion with military experts, which would
have put the army in better condition for
any demands that might be made upon II
than II had ever before been in peace
times. Mr.. lilson approved the plans
Than. without notics 70 hIs ssffeteyy q
L war. he r<v9sr1ed kIm9eIf and 1nQQr<44 az|