The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-19
THE BRTDGEpoRT TIMES
THE PROPOSED CABINET.
N ITH THE inauguration of the President only w couple away interest increases in the final

 varnish and rubbing down preliminary to setting it out before the public for inspection.
 coming the President there is sk ing dffrence the material used its construction It tool of lumber which lis grained full of kno and liable to warp Mechanic Harding calling skill in fitting together contrasting doubtless there has been will i be, a demand for the lavish of putty and paint
 revival of the that Herbert Hoover of the most probable group that the Cabinet table is follows Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes of New York; Secretary Treasury Pennsylvania Secretary of War John w. Weeks of Massachusetts, Secretary of the Navy Tobias Kentucky; Secretary the nteror Albert Mexico Attorney General Harry Daugherty of Ohio; Postmaster General Will H. Hays of Indiana Secretary abor Ja16es of Pennsyvana Secretary of Com Herbert E. Hoover of California; Secretary of Agcu ture, Henry Wallace o
 inspire confidence hopes of great things the only wo Mr. Hughes and Mr. Hoover measure position and those two could hardly be expected make good the defects of their associates As at present stued the Cabinet of r Harding has too political sharps enough statesmen If the Cabinet intended for political machine there would be promise o one hundred per efficiency its membership but board to handle great questions of state public policy there not equal amount of promise apparent.
 The two most criticised selections Harding Secretary Treasury Andrew Melon and his Attorney General Harry L. Daugherty Tn gard to the or has charged that directly and indirectly either director both, and through members of the family of which he is the head he interested in banks insurance companies corporations, whose combined represent total of billion, hundred mil dollars addition has large interest in dlery which has in storage eighteen million dollars worth whiskey commenting these financial interests the racse remarks ironically There Is this to be said Mellon: there deficit billion two in the
 
 prospective Attorney General he has for twenty been Mr. Hardng political maer since the time when in Daugherys words he almost pushed him out platform n a Ohio make speech. Daughery Harding nominee for Governor of Oho and it Daughert who made him United States Sena tor, and it was Daughery who made the prophecy
 :At the proper time after the Republican National
 Convention meets, fifteen bleary-eyed with
 loss of sleep and persprng prousely with the exces
 heat, will sit down in seclusOn around big table.
 will be with them and will present the name of Sena-
 tor Harding to them and before they get through they
 will put him over."
 Subsequent proven how good a prophet but while it to why Mr. Harding should feel the greatest obligations to him and while eats ability a order, justify Mr. Harding placing the office of Attorney General who does not to the position. The office of Attorney General great office with great and traditions Its incumbent charged with entire Responsibility the administrations of justice Constitution also the the dent practice has much the selection Judges It position for which the most able legal ability defense of the appointment to the position qualification political boss whom prominent Ohio judge recently quoted saying Nobody in Columbus him practice lawyer. He practices a politician"
 Equally apparent compelling Mr. Hard ings something Hays his case ger larger scale. Instrumental in securing the ton Harding at Chicago said to produced Tobias Her of Kentucky known to the public lite be suspected largest of a political complexion.
 Taken altogether the proposed slate not thoughtful mind with very lively hope fully to the familiar term of "bes mnd There long distinguished Republicans of proven ability throughout the country people political ties It is unfortunate that Harding bring himself to the forgetting his political biy to the people of the United States whole select
 list of his Cabinet general ! respect and confidence both at home and abroad.