Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-17
C. 0. P. PLANS NOVEL
WAY To APPEAL To
AMERICAN VOTERS
NY DAVID LAWRENCE

by DAVID LAW RENEE
Copyright. 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
CHICAGO, June 15.-Democrats
may be telling joyful over the choice
of a conservative like Senator Hard
ing for the Republican presidential
nominate ton. but if they imagine the
on the personality of Mr.. Harding
alone they are very much mistaken.
Politicians still are here, and man
ayers already are planning. And the
big drive the Republicans will make
is on the character of cabinet men,
Harding will select. Everybody who
knows Senator Harding probably will
admit that, first of all, he is not an
impulsive man' nor a decisive indi-
makeup approaching the arbitrary.
But he does take advice and seeks it,
too. Therefore, the Republicans will
lsay to their Democratic critics that
in assertive qualities will be more
than made up by his calm and de-
Lucrative consultation with the best
minds in the country.
Mr.. Harding is the kind of man
who may distribute offices to deserv-
ing Republicans according to the
wishes of the campaign committee,
but he will draw the line against
ineff1ciency. AS between an executive
who happened to work for Republi-
ficient, and another man of equal eff
ficiency, Mr.. Harding probably would
choose the one who had worked for
the party. But the senator from
Ohio. who, has been picked. by the
servant who is always conscious of
his responsibilities. He would lay
awake nights worrying about his job,
and would, therefore, seek to sur
round himself with the best men he
could get.
May Announce Cabinet
There is some talk about a novel
way of approaching the American
electorate this year, to emphasize the
contrast between what the Republi-
cans call one-man government on the
government by the Republican nom
inee if he is successful.
Of course the politicians see OBJ
stacles in one plan that is being
talked of, but admittedly it would
f he1p st the eandjddte That plan is
next August or September the names
of the ten men who would be mem
bers of his cabinet This would give
the people chance to see who
of the government. For in the dis
tribution of executive power, the
head of a department frequently ex-
erclses authority actually delegated
met officer is often-times final. The
new scheme would afford an op-
portunity to pass upon the qualifi-
cations of men before election who
ordinarily would be in charge of the
destinies Of the the people after cleo
rendered and the policies they ad-
vocated for the guidance Of the new
president.
Several leaders who have talked
Oh 1a1o
merit though they said in a political
campaign it was difficult to promise
cabinet positions without embar-
RAISING the candidate himself. Never
theless it is a fact that candidates
often select their cabinets ahead of
election time.
Cabinet Slate
This is one OF the states that was
suggested as means of insuring
success in November:
Secretary of State-Elihu Root or
Philander c. Knox.
Attorney General-Charles Evans
Hughes, of New York. -
- Secretary of the Treasury-Frank
Vanderlip.
Secretary of War-Leonard Wood
Or Lindley M. Garrison.
Secretary Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Capper, of Kansas.
Secretary of Labor-Senator Ken
yon, of Iowa.
Indiana. - - :
Secretary of the Navy-Former
Senator Weeks, of Massachusetts,.
Secretary of the Navy-Former
ernor Lowden, of Illinois,.
Secretary of Commerce-Herbert
Hoover, of California
Of course it would be difficult to
get the permission of men of such
prominence to have their names used
in a campaign that might not be
successful, but all of the ten are
Republicans and most of them prob |
ably will be working publicly to help
elect Senator Harding.
Again and again, business men
who have come to Washington have
complained about their treatment in
government departments. There |
seems to be no way to cure an error
in choosing cabinet unless public |
opinion gets excited and even then
loyalty to a friend frequently causes |
presidents to hesitate to ask for
designations.
Those leaders who talked of the |
plan of nominating a cabinet in ad- |
vance said that at least it had the |
might expect in the ten different de- |
might expect in the ten differn de- |
partments of the executive branch |
of the governmnt.
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