Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-22
P|NCH0T IS Silent
ON CABINET PLANS
GoveTnor.EIect Has Busy Morn
ing Seeing Visitors at
His Office Here
C0NFERS WITH FISHER

Clifford Pinchot, Governor elect. in.
timated to callers in his office In the
Real Estate Trust Building today that
1t would probably he two or three
weeks before lie mnde any announce.
ments as to his cabinet.
millions Of suggcstions' are con. .
ing to Mr.. l'inchOt, but he will "listcn
| and say nothing" for the time being. on
the cabinet or the question of the As.
sembly speakership. '...
AS for the speakership, he expects to
give that problem. which IL important
because of Its control Of House COM
mittees. which In turn can forward or
retnrd legislation, serious study. Dis.
cussing that particular situation in.
formally the Governor. elect hinted that
ne would wake up some morning with,
his mind all mahc up. just as was the
ship Of the state Committee" His
callers felt that the Governor. elect was
not to be "stampetled."
Mr.. Pinchot's Office was filed all day
with men and women, from this city
and from other and distant parts of
tho state. II was not without signifi :.
canoe that the first conference Cf the
day was with a woman. Mrs. J. Claude
bedford. president Of the Republican
Women's Club of Delaware County nnI
one Of the original Pinchot leaders In
that district. Later the Governor. elect
went into q fairly long conference with
John y. Fisher, former State Banking
Commissioner. who is a friend also Of
Mrs. Bedford. Mr.. Fisher is being
urged for Attorney General, though it is
understood he feels that his present
legal connections stand in the way of
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Another caller was State Senator
y. Edward Long. chairman Of tke
iinchot Primary Campaign Committee,
MI. Long arrived this morning from
Chambcrsburg. Then came State Rcp.
rcsentative Woner. sponsor for The
state enforcement law. fresh from his
address before the convention Of the
League Of Women Voters In Harris.
burg. No sooner had Mr.. Woner gone
than Ralph Beaver Strassburger, Of
NOrristown, a publisher and Pinchot
worker. who Is one of the lively spirits
In the younger Pinchot set, arrived and
got the attention of the forester,
Another caller was George =, Oliver.
OF Pittsburgh. political leader and
publisher In Allegheny County. He is
interested in Mr.. Fisher for Attorney
General and State Representative Me.
Vicar. Of his county. for Speaker OF
the House.
Councilman W. W. Roper, whom
some Of the women are booming for
Mayor and who also has been men
toned as material for appointment
under the Pinchot administration. was
another visitor. Mr.. PinchOt, a Yale
man, could not cheer with Roper over
the Princeton victory, but otherwise
the session was harmonious.
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Other callers included Judge George
Il. Orlady. Congressman. elect Frank
Bruinml, of Schuylkill County: J, Yer.
ner Clark. Of Washington County: Ii.
NJ. Chalfant, of the Anti Snloon
League; DIR. Henry :. Drinker, former
president Of Lehigh College, and John
L.. Morrison. II publisher Of Green.
Vile.
The Governor. .ecct will leaye I'm.
morrow for Harrisburg. where he will
attend the banquet Of the Leapue uf
Women Voters. Mr.. PinchOt exnscts
to return Friday and after the Army.
Navy game plans to spend Il few ,luys
at his home IN Milford.