The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-01-03
HOOVER SAID
TO Be BEST
FOR INTERIOR
Says Mark Sullivan - De-
clares Hughes, Dawes Ger
tain, Hays Eligible for Com
merce Secretary.
DAUCHERTY IS IN RACE
BY MARK SULLIVAN

BY MARK SULLIVAN
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 3.-Here
is the way the probable cabinet lies
today:
1t can be taken as practically posi-
tive that the secretary of state will be
ex-justice Hughes Of New York, and
that the secretary of the treasury will
be Charles G. Dawes, the Chicago
banker. These two selects are prac-
tically made. Only some extraordin-
ary unforeseen complication could
change them, and the public announce
ment of them can be expected at al.
most any time.
No other appointment is so nearly
fixed as these, but the following
things can be said
For secretary of the interior, Hard
ing is seriously considering Herbert
Hoover. If Harding's mind continues
to run as it has run, more and more in
tho direction of excluding men whose
recommendations are political only,
and more and more in the direction of
naming man on the basis of their
standing in their professions and with
the public generally, the great likeli-
hood Is he will appoint Hoover.
Hoover Opposed.
Hoover is being vigorously opposed
by some of the politicians on the IA
miliar ground of his prolonged absence
from America and the recentness OF
his identity with the Republican party
On the other hand, some of the big
gest and most broad minded of the
politicians encourage Harding to name
Hoover. considering the matter from
a political point of view. These more
substantial politicians say that in the
last campaign Hoover played the
game" from Republican organization
standpoint more fairly than any OF
the other Republican leaders who are
advocates of the league of nations.
Hoover endorsed Harding within a
few days after the latter was nominal
ed, and thereafter worked wholeheart-
edly in behalf of Harding's election
Hoover made his decision on the
theory that the Republican party was
likely to win anyhow and that the best
policy of the Republican friends OF
the league was to stay in the party
and do the best they could for the
solution of the league problem within
the Republican organization. The big
ger politicians who now endorse Hoov-
er point out the difference between
this wholehearted course of Hoover's
and the decidedly less wholehearted
attitude during the campaign of some
Of the other prominent Republicans
who are pro-league.
Supported Harding.
Moreover, Hoover's generous sup
port of Harding from the beginning oil
the campaign is in marked contrast to
the conduct of some of the irreconcil-
ables who, for the first two-thirds of
the campaign, sulked and devoted
their efforts to putting Harding in a
hole. Some of these same irreconcll-
ables are now among those who op-
pose Hoover for the cabinet.
Probably on the whole the best
guess is that Hardings own lncllna-
ton, added TO the endorsement OF the
broader minded Republican politicians
will prevail over the protests OF those
other politicians who are trying to
keep Hoover out of the cabinet.
All the present trend of Harding's
mind is in the direction of non-politic-
al considerations which would favor
Hoover. Hoover is frequently men
toned in connection with the depart
ment of labor. There is nothing in
thai. 1t is the interior department that
Hoover is being considered for. II
this department should not be given
to Hoover, it is likely that Senator
Albert B. Fall, of New Mexico will be
considered
O'Conneli Likely.
For the department of labor, Charles
M. Schwab has been publicly suggest
ed. That is grotesque suggestion.
There is nothing in it. The department
OF labor will go to some distinguished
labor leader. Among the labor leaders
who have been most strongly recon-
mended and most favorably considered
are w. G.. Lee, of Cleveland, president
of the brotherhood of Railway Train
men: John l.. Lewis, OF Springfield,
Illinois, president Of the United Mine
Workers of America; James Duncan,
of Quincy, Mass. president or the
Granite Cutters International Assocla-
ton: and James O'Connell, OF Miners
VILE. Pa, president Of the Internation-
al sssociai ion of Macl:inistS. or these
four the latter would seem to have a
little the better chance for several
reasons. among them geographical
considerations. Tho first three come
from states which are likely 10 have
other members in the cabinet. O'Con-
rell is the only one coming from
state from which no other cabinet
member is likely to be appointed.
The fact that O'Connell has been
ably weigh little with Harding.
psueherty In Place.
For attorney general it is commonly
assumed that Harry Daugherty. OF
Columbus, Ohio. is the likeliest choice.
To what degree that assumption is
correct can only be known within Sem
ator Hardings own mind, for the
choice of Daueherty, if it should be
made. will be wholly personal one on
Hardings part. Daugherty is the man
who first pursuaded Harding to run
for the senate six years ago and also
first persuaded him to enter the presi-
Dental race a year ago.
Throughout Hartling's campaign
Daugherty has acted in an informal
way as a kind of manager for Hard
ing. Without going into Daughertys
qualifications as a lawyer. it can be
ing. Without going into Daugherty's
appointed there will be widespread
protest on the part OF those who feel
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