Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-11-04
trio MENTIONED
FOR NEW CABINET
Lodge, Root and Knox, Together
With Others, Already 'sPick-
ed" By Cabinet Makers

CIOn, campaign gossip as 1T mas Deen
related by callers at Harding head
quarters and by local leaders enter
tanned aboard the Harding campaign
train has included repeated mention
Of several prominent Republicans for
cabinet posts.
In this current of unofficial and |
purely speculative talk two names
heard with great frequeny are those
of Harry NJ. Daugherty and John w.
Weeks, of Massachusetts.
Throughout the campaign Daugher-l
ty has been more closely associated |
with Mr.. Harding than any other
party manager, making many trips
fere and taking a large part in the
formulation OF the nominees cam
paign strategy. This close contact,
together with the Senator's oft-re-
peated praise of Mr.. Daugherty's
services, has led to guesses in many
quarters that the latter can sit in
the new presidents official family if
he so Desires He is lawyer and has
been mentioned more frequently as a
possible choice for attorney general.
A former senator, Mr.. Weeks. also
has teen a member of the Republican
campaign executive committee dar-l
ing the campaign just closed. He is
graduate of the Naval Academy
and a former member of the Senate
Naval committee circumstance
which has linked his name in the I'M
dercurrent of political speculation
with the secretaryship of the navy.
Among many names whispered by
the self-constituted cabinet makers
IN connection with the post of score
tary of state are those of Henry Cab
d Lodge, Elihu Root, Philander C.
knox and Charles Evans Hughes.
Senator Lodge, as chairman of the
foreign relations committee, has led
the fight against unreseryed ratifca-
ton OF the treaty of Versailles and
Mr.. Harding frequently has express
ell high regard for his knowledge and
Judgment in International affairs.
MI. Root and Mr.. Knox are both
former heads of the state departm 2nt
and Mr.. Hughes, who was the Rep1b
lican nominee four years ago, has
been close student Of the league
fight.
Whether political history will re-
peat itself in the selection of Will IL.
Hays, chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee, as postmaster gen
eral is another question which the
gossips have busted themselves with.
The name of John C. King, national
committeeman from Connecticut, also
has been connected with the place in
the same speculative way.
Herbert Hoover, the former food
administrator, has been talked about
in many quarters for many posts, but
the gossip has assigned him most
frequently to the interior or treasury
departments. There also has been
theory circulated that Senator Hald-
ing might prefer to put the reorga1P
ization of the war department in the
hands of an army man instead of a
civilian and might ask Mejor General
Leonard Wood or John J. Pershing to
take that portfolio.
Another name mentioned frequently
in connection with the attorney gen
eralship is that of former Seator
George Sutherland, of Utah, who was
attached to Senator Harding's head
quarters here during large part of
the campaign. George w. Wicker
sham, of New York, a former attor-
ney general, has been mentioned in
speculation about both the war and
justice portfolios, and Senator James
w. Wadsworth, of the same state,
chairman of the military committee
OF the senate, has been talked about
as a possible secretary of war.
For secretary of agriculture those
who think they know are suggesting |
Henry Wallace, of Iowa, the publisher
of farm periodicals.; Senator Arthur
Capper, of Kansas, and many others.
Representative John J. Esch, of Wis
consin, is one of theose suggested fori
secretary of commerce, and in gener-l
al speculation about cabinet assign
ments of one sort or another have
appeared the names of Senator Sena-
tor Albert B. Ball, of New Mexico;
Myron I. Herrick, of Cleveland; Wal
ter S. Brown, of Toledo; Raymond
Robins, of Chicago; Senator Smoot of
Utah, and enough others to make up
a dozen official families.
The possibility that woman mayj
sit in the cabinet before the next adj
is over has been sug-
gested by the senator's proposal for
a new department of public welfare.
In a speech some weeks ago advo-
eating such a department he declared
his faith in the intrusting of impor-
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