New-York tribune., 1921-02-10
South Appeals
Harding for
Cabinet Place
,lsrrsId and Slemp, in Tele-
grams, Ask for Recogni-
s;en of Genuine Wave
Toward Republicanism,
sFearful Mistake Seen
s,cretaryship of Agriculture
m Commerce Held Due
n OH SectionaIisna Views

wASHYNGT0N, Feb. "a drive to
..,r about the appointment of s.
s.wtasrn msu in President Hsrding's
r.,s,et has been begun by Southern
p.rablicaus in Congress.
P.presentative. and Senator-elect Har-
IA sf Oklahoma, dispatched tsie-
..r, to-day to President-eleet Harding
s..l.risg he was much disturbed" at
- possibility Of the South not being
,arssented in the Cabinet. AT the
.ms time Representative Slemp, of
y;rrinia. who is also Republican ma
,;.ns, committeeman, declared in a
..tsn,ept that it would be "a fearful
r.isssge If Senator Harding doesn't
-.coruize the genuine sentiment toward
psnobliesnism in the South"
saws South Expects Recognition
s.nator-elect Harreld, in his tele-
gram, said;
81 an much disturbed at the posi-
A;p+v Of the South not being repre-
.,r-sd IN your Cabinet. Oklahoma is
-, Western nor Northern. It's over
sssln,ipg vote is intensely Southern.
,.s horn and raised in the South. and
ssow and sympathlze with their pres
s,t political hopes The vote that made
oElahoma Republican last year was
sarn and bred in Southern states
rbsse people expect the South to be
-..r.sornized in your Cabinet, and the
~. ter they would most appreciate is
.ss Secretary of Agriculture. l have
s.,;,ten YOU in the interest ( Mr.
F,sIds. 0klahoma's candidate. But II
rog shall determine that 1T IS best II
:-ler to wipe out sectionalism, oul
s,ost deadly political foe, to take man
,zo,s tbe old South and thus plant the
sog Of Republicanism all over the
Sos+h il will be effective in saving
ntlsboma. Failure to thus recognize
tsa South will be keen dlsappolnt-
sssrt n the prediction belief thai
aonr election would wipe out sectional
ism"
~ Republican in Sentiment
representative Slemp, in his state
mant, said: =,
at would be q fearful mistake il
gerator Harding doesn't recognize the
.,anuine sentiment toward Republican,
lem IN the South. But besides that
the South. with its peculiar problems
ho+b racial and industrial, ought tc
hsvs representation in any American
CABINET In real sentiment the South
is Republican to-day, as witness tht
request of every Democratic Governor
in the South for the conference in At
lanta in January, 1921, urging the
necessity for q protective tariff or
Southern products. | am expecting the
new Congress and the new Admlnistra
ton to take the first steps toward
ourifying election conditions in the
South. and I should prefer to see that
done through the Southerners and the
friends Of the South iii heart anc
spirit rather than by outsiders.
Many Southerners Mentioned
Mr.. Slemp himself is being urged
for the Cabinet by many Southerners
both inside and outside the Republican
party. In addition to John Fields, now
publisher of a farm journal and for
mer president Of the Oklahoma Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college, who
is backed for the Agricultural portfolio
by Senator-elect Harreld, 4. r. Hert,
national committeePan from Kentucky
John NJ, Morehead, national committee
man from North Carolina; Marion But
ler, former Senator from the same
state; 7. H. Huston, of Chattanooga
Tenn; Newell Sanders, former United
States Senator from Tennessee, and
James A. Fowler, of Knoxville, Tenn.
former Solicitor General, are some OF
those who have been mentioned as
Cabinet possibilities. Most of them
are being urged for Secretary of Aeri.
culture or of Commerce.