Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-15
NEW YORK IS NOT
ENTHUSIASTIC OVER
SELECTED CABINET
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Ucased Wire Service to The Journal.)

Copyright, 1929
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-One
doesn't have to investigate sentiment
very far in this, the nations metrop-
oils, to learn that President-elect
Harding's list of cabinet secretaries
will not evoke outbursts of enthusi-
asm if it should prove to be the
slate that practically all the CORE
spondents, both in Washington and
St. Augustine, have been publishing
during the last few weeks
Of course New York's point of
view may not be national, but here at
any rate are some influential Repub-
lican leaders and newspapers, and it
is significant that many of them are
finding fault publicly and privately.
Mr.. Harding may have selected what
any president might regard as a good
working cabinet. but the trouble is
New York had come to expect a
super-cabinet with General Wood,
Herbert Hoover and Elihu Root in it,
and authentic dispatches from Har-
ding's headquarters have indicated
that none of these three giants Of
Republicanism would be chosen.
Take the secretaryship of state, for
instance. Now, Charles Evans
Hughes is well known in New York
and his ability is fully recognized
but Elihu Root would have been
more enthusiastically approved be-
cause his training has been in inter-
national affairs and diplomacy. How
ever, the objections to Hughes are
relatively insignificant compared to
the murmurs of dissatisfaction over
the omission of men like General
Wood and Herbert Hoover.
Cartoon Is Used
The New York Tribune, for in
stance, one Of the leading Republican
newspapers, seems to think it is not
too late to persuade Mr.. Harding to
change his mind, and accordingly
publishes today a cartoon showing
the shadowy figure of Abraham Lin
coin behind Uncle Sam, who is ad-
monishing the president-e thus:
Don't forget, Warren, the kind of
men he Gincoln) picked for his cab
met"
While Gotham admires the genius
and ability of Andrew w. Mellon, of
Pittsburg, who is slated for the sec
retaryship of the treasury, some Re-
publicans are uneasy over the way
the Democratic newspapers have in
sisted upon cataloguing the large
financial holdings of Mr.. Mellon.
They wonder II the country will ap-
prove the selection Of a man whose
wealth is said to be next to that Of
John D. Rockefeller. But New York
really doesn't object to wealth. nor
does it consider Mr.. Melons bust
ness connections as a handicap. The
bottom of the trouble is that Wall
street and the banking community
had come to hope that one of its
own group of financiers would sit in
the treasury department under Re-
publican administration, or that per-
haps one of it's good friends. like
George M. Reynolds, the big Chicago
banker, might be so honored.
There seems to be no particular
objection to Governor Lowden, of IL
linois. On the contrary, he is much
here insist that within the last five
days Governor Lowden's letter de-
clining to enter the cabinet at all has
reached Mr.. Harding at st. Au-
Gustine.
Wanted General Wood
Much praise of John W. Weeks,
former United States senator from
Massachusetts, who is slated to be
secretary of war, is heard, but there
is no denying that the appointment
of Leonard Wood would have been
many times more pleasing.
Will Hays and Harry M. Daugherty'
who are listed for postmaster gener-
al and attorney general, are popular
in political circles, but 1T neverthe-
less is true that leading Republicans
question the advisability of putting
men of prominence in political or
CARNATIONS in the cabinet. what
some of these New Workers do not
know is that a politician with his ear
to the ground is sometimes better
Judge of the public pulse than bus1-
ness man whose training has been
entirely inside single city and In
a single business.
New York has been somewhat or
a Hoover stronghold, and since the
former food administrator has come
so prominently before the public in
connection with the European child
relief, the people have been constant
ly reminded of his executive ability,
so that it is not unusual to hear one
man say to another, or one woman to
another: ct wonder why Mr.. Harding
doesn't put Hoover in the cabinet"
Most folks, however, refuse to be-
lieve what they see in New York
papers about cabinet selections. and
are serenely confident that when the
list is finally made public 1t will
surely contain the names of Leonard
Wood, Elihu Root and Herbert