The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

| BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
| Especial Despatch to The Reformer.l
= Copyright 1920.
| WASHINGTON. Dee %. 49, Charles
Evans Hughes will be the next secretary
OF state.
Governor Lowden is out of the running
for secretary of treasury and will be given
a foreign post of Importance.
Charles Grosvenor Dawes, or George
NJ. Reynolds, both of Chicago are upper
most in the mind of President-Eiec Hard
ing for the secretaryship of the treasury
| Herbert Hoover, will be either secretary
| of labor or that Of the interior with the
chances in favor of his being asked to
! take the former.
Harry ". Daugherty will have to de-
eide the question of who is to be attorney
general, for he can have the place if he
wants it.
| Henry c. Wallace has been asked to
/ Become secretary Of agriculture and has
accepted.
Will Hays will be asked to become
postmaster general The other portfolios
/ -secretary Of the navy, secretary of
war. secretary OF commerce are not yet
decided upon and if Mr.. Hoover is asked
! To become secretary OF the interior. this
would unset calculations on the secretary
| ship of labor.
| The foregoing series of statements have
| been given the writer by several of the
men who can be considered as members
| of the inner circle in the next admins
| ration. They are authority Tor the as
scrtion that General Pt rshing will not be
| lsked to be secretary OF war and they IN
st with equal positiveness that the pub
Nished stories concerning Senator Pen
n lpT
"esign his seat in the senate because il
would lead to the entry of Governor
Sproul as a contender for control of the
| Pennsylvania political situation are en-
| tirely without Foundations, sir. Penrose
| reported as beng wiling to do any
| hing that Senator Harding may want TO
elect a cabinet that viii fulfill the cam
| aigu promise to pick able executives.
Mr. Penrose isn't worried about the
| Pennsylvania situation. And another sig
1iGcant fact is that to date Mr.. Harding
as not asked Senator Knox to come 10
| Iarion and has not indicated to- Mr..
Knox that he wants him TO BECOME sec
Harding is thinking seriously of Mr.. Knox
Harding is thinking serIousl yot Mr.. Knox
'Or the secretaryshp OF state and. IN ms
! cart there is no man he would rather Sc
set. But the next cabinet will BOT ,heeA
-roun OF personal fayorltes.. MIR. Harding
| as felt ii his duty To map out a gene raj
olicy for his administration and then try
ret men to tit that policy. ft ~
The conferences of the last few weeks
Marion have convinced Mr. Harding
| hat he cannot afford to take any extrem-
st and he fears that Mr.. Knox's an
ounced position on foreign quest nsols
9ounced position on foreign questions II
| uch that it would be embarrassing for
| Mr. Knox to reverse himself or trim his
-iews to suit the Harding policy. More
yer Mr. Harding doesn't want to antago-
1iZe any groups in the party by selecting
ne who has been so completely ldentl-
ed with the "lrreconCllable' group IN
he senate. The unwisdom OF such
curse from a political viewpoint has been
rrged upon Mr. Harding though at first
was inclined to pay no attention TO 1t
1t all.
To select a cabinet that would meet the
vnectatlons of the country, Senator
Harding has realized that he must get
tCD-lIneT, a man whose abilities have
been we'll advertised and in whose iudg
ment and integrity the whole country has
Ontdence. 1t was natural that having
eliminated Mr.. Root on account OF adj
vanced age he should turn to the man
who had made a brilliant record as gov
arnor of New York and who had dlstIn-
rushed himself on the supreme court OF
he United States and who had further
more come within a few electoral votes
# being elected president of the United
~tates himself. Messrs Borah and John
son supported Mr.. Hughes for the presi-
1encv in 1916 and can hardly go back
m that fact. Mr.. Hughes Is known
throughout the world as a distinguished
'urist and Mr.. Harding is said to be-
ieve that the announcement of Mr..
Hughess appointment would create con-
fdence everywhere that the foreign pol
icy of the United States was III the hands
VI man extraordinary in capacity and
fairness.
Every report received by the writer
rom the men who are in the confidence
of Senator Harding and who are i'll Wash
inoton and New York comforting on his
hehalf with the celebrities in question
indicates that the next cabinet viii be a
much better one than earlier gossin would
indicate and that while Warren Harding
has been taking his time sitting the var
ious aspirants and candidates he has by
no means fallen victim to the pnrely polit- !
zeal temptations which are still athwartI