The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-01-14
HERT To GET DIXIE'S
Lone CABINET PLUM
Harding Decides To Name
Kentuckian For War
Or Navy Post.
By Carter Field.

Washington Jan. 1O.-A T. Hert.
of Kentucky, is certain to be in the
Harding cabinet.
Mr.. Harding himself gave this in
formation to visitors in the last few
days. who were urging the appoint
/, ment of James A. Fowler, of Knox
vile, Tenn, as attorney general. Mr.
Fowler who was assistant attorney
general, and later assistant to the at
torney general served during the lat
ter part of the Roosevelt administra-
tion and during the entire Taft ad-
ministration.
Mr.. Harding's idea, as described by
visitors, was that he had already
recognized the ''Solid South" suf-
ficiently in the decision to appoint Mr..
Hert. The President-elect did not
say to what post he would assign the
kentucky national committeeman, but
it is thought that he will be assigned
either to the war or navy departments
and that ex-senator John w. Weeks,
OF Massachusetts, will be given the
other service portfolio.
Hinges on Weeks Decision.
II Mr.. Weeks persists in his disin-
clination to take the Navy, it is not
unlikely that he will be given the
War Department, and that Mr.. Hert
will be named as secretary of navy.
Powerful support from the Senate
Military Affairs Committee has been
Department, while in the last few
days prominent Republicans outside
of the Senate have aided in the at
tempt to convince Mr.. Harding that
Weeks should be Bakers successor.
The definite decision by Mr.. Hard
ing to appoint Mr.. Hert and his set
Element of this decision as a reason
why he should not appoint a man
from Tennessee to the cabinet, pune
lures half dozen other booms which
boosters have been industriously in
flating here and elsewhere. There is
now very little ground for hoping that
anyone from the territory south Of
the Ohio and Potomac Rivers except
Mr.. Hert will be in the cabinet.
One Of the booms thus affected is
that for ex-senator Newell Sanders,
of Tennessee. Mr.. Sanders has been
the backbone of the Republican or
ganization in Tennessee for some |
years, and the fact that he had talk |
with Harding when the President
elect came to Washington for the OPP
ening of Congress gave rise to con-
siderable gossip that he would be put
in the cabinet. This was given color
by the fact that Tennessee was the
only one of the old Confederate states
which went for Harding.
Another of the booms pricked by
the news brought back from Marion
is Of A. Bascom Slemp, leader of the
House from Virginia and Republican
National Committeeman.
John M. Moorehead. former. mem
Der of the House from North Caro-
lima. is another Southerner whose
qualifications for cabinet honors were
being boosted, but who is now elimi-
mated.
There is no surprise here that {
should be willing to give Mr..
aert anything the Kentuckian desir- I
I'd. Mr.. Hert was friendly to Sena- [,
or Harding's candidacy from the first -,
hough he was committed to Lowden.
was seen during the last few n
lays of the Chicago convention that =
.owden could not be nominated Mr.. =
iert became tremendously important .,
he Wood people in the hopes that
recess from Saturday until Mon n
ay could be obtained they could n
'und up enough delegates during the .,
lterval to put Wood over, appealed
Mr.. Hert to vote with them for an
djournment This was during the
inch recess on Saturday.
But Mr.. Hert lined up with the al
arding forces and settled the fight. d.
opponents OF Mr.. Harding listened az
nsely when Kentucky was called on to
10 roll, and, with the great Harding C,
which went up when XII
ert announced Kentucky casts 26
ties for Harding" their hopes died. m
ne fight was over. MI
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