Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-22
NOTHING But PLAY
TILL INAUGURATION
DAY SAYS HARDING

On Board President-ele Hard
ing's Train. Jan. 21-President-e elect
Harding put his cares out of mind
tonight as he neared Florida and told
his companions on his vacation
Jaunt that he proposed to forget en-
tirely for the next two weeks the i'm
portant decisions that are ahead of
him.
EXCEPT for short time during the
afternoon when he worked on corre-
sspondence that had been crowded
out In the final preparations for
Aeaying Marion, he rested and de-
ported himself as an ordinary tour
psf during his days trip southwark
across Kentucky and Tennessee. His
private car attached to a regular
passenger train, attracted unusual
attention at only one or two stations
along the way
II ArriVlng at st. Augustine shortly
before noon tomorrow, Mr.. Harding
expects to get into his vacation
riothes at once and after a game of
goT TO go aboard the houseboat Sc
lected as his home during the fishing
expedition that will occupy his first
Two weeks in the south. In his talks
with newspaper correspondents and
other members of his party today he
again emphasized his desire to cut
himself off during this period from
! all thought of the subjects he has had
Under consideration in his Marion
| conferences.
Mr.. Harding's spirits rose appre-
claoly at the prospect of his re-
spite, and although he looked more
careworn than when he passed
through Kentucky and Tennessee in
loctober on campaign trip he
sretted with a smile the groups that
gathered around his car at various
stops, to shake his hand. At Oak
, dale, Tenn, where there was a de-
lay of fifteen minutes to change en-
/ Slnes he got out and entertained g
srinn1ng audience of railway switch
men by walking rail with the spry.
ness of fifteen year-old.
! Despite his efforts to get ava,
from his worries, however, specula.
| ton about the cabinet situation in.
creased rather than diminished
among those about him on his trir
| south. At the same time indications
| multiplied that the whole situation is
/ stlll In state Of flux and that fina
| decisions on every one of the ter
cablnet places must be reached dur
| ing Mr.. Harding's stay in Florida.
1t was said authoritatively that
such tenders of cabinet places as the
president-elect has made are condi-
| tional and that many elements of the
| SITUATION remain to be harmonize6
ftore there can be actual selections
| The latest suggestion heard amona
those close to Mr.. Harding is thai
CHARLES E. Hughes, generally regard
ed as a leading possibility for secre-
| tary of state, might be offered the
attorney generalship instead, and
that the state portfolio might be
given to Elihu Root, whose friends
are understood to be bringing strone
! pressure to bear in his behalf.
| In the same quarters it has beer
proposed that Charles c. Dawes Of
/ Chicago, urged prominently for Sec
rotary Of the treasury, be given the
| position of governor of the Fedora
Reserve Board. leaving the treasury
post for A. w. Mellon, of Pittsburgh
So far as Mr.. Harding is concerned
however, he Is maintaining silence
and is putting the whole question
over for decision after he returns to
st. Augustine after his fishing trip