The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-27
PARTY REGULARITY IS HARDING RULE
 IN PLACING JOBS
President Elect Somewhat of Novice in Art of Appointment, for Republican "Pickings"
 in Ohio Slim Lately
ny ROBERT T. SMALL

St. Augustine, Fla. January 26.- Especial. )--President elect Warren c. Harding on his houseboat cruise is getting some very valuable instruction in what is known as party regularity" To the outsider, party regularity might seem to consist of voting the ticket straight at every possible opportunity, but this is not all. To man in Sena- tor Harding's position it means a go to the right people and through the right channel.
 A President of the United States is s circumscribed in his appointments as he is in many other respects and MT. Harding is finding this out. It would be an easy matter for him to follow his own dictation in the distribution of federal patronage, but, if he did so, the party organization would be broken up in many states and congr9ssional districts and party machinery would be all but wrecked.
 President Wilson during the last four years of his tenure in the presi- dential office totally ignored party
 
 to such an extent that when the cam paign of 1920 came on, there was no democratic organization outside of a little coterie in Washington,
 STRONG FOR HARMONY
 MT. Harding already has let it be known that in making federal appoint ments he will follow the recomm enda tions of the party leaders and will hold those leaders personally responsible for the good conduct in office of the men for whom these stand sponsor. Having made this declaration MT. Harding is just now finding out how he Gan carry it into effect.
 Mir Harding is a strictly party man and he believes in party government. When he announces his cabinet, it Will be found that it is strictly. a party cabinet and so it will be all down the line. Mr. Harding believes that cffec- tive organization is possible only where discipline is kossible an1 sanizafion men are concerned
 Already the President-elect has coma in contact with men who would have him appoint to office certain individuals who would be objectionable to their state organizations. This has been very clear to him but he has not known just what IS the approved system of dispensing the many offices which come within h,s gift.
 SLIM PICKINGS"
 It must be remembered that in appo;nt Ing men to- office the new President-to-be distinctly is a novice, he never before has held Ali 2 administrative office which scar- r1ed with it the privilege of patrorfa ge United States senators as a rule are all powerful in the distribution of a certain class of federal patronage in the states. but MT. Harding has had the unhappy experience in that respect of having served his entire time in the Unitad states Senate under hostile administra- ton. As Senator, Mr. Harding has known no other chief executive than Woodrow Wii- son and naturally the republican pick lngs in Ohio during his term of office have been very few. Just now Mir. Ha-d- ing is taking a course of sprouts and is discovering just what, class of ap- pointments fall within the view of the faithful congressman and the faithful senators as well as those which ordina- rily are dictated by the state chairman and the national committeeman in eacn state.
 As instructors he has Senator Frelins huysen, Fall and Cummins. but most inn portant of all he is being schooled by Harry M. Daugherty, an old hand at the political wheel. It was through state- nent by Mir. Daugherty that 1t first be- came known Mir. Harding was to adopt the organization plan of federal patron- age in it's every particular