New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-08-31
WALLACE BELIEVED
Slated FOR DISCARD.
Coolidge Reported as Unlriendly
/. to Him in Cabinet
III GEORGE H. MANNING

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fwashlngton Bureau Of New Britain Herald>'
Washington, D. c., Aug. Sl-Cal-
win Coolidge begins the revision OF
the Harding Cabinet, which 1t is be-
leved he will do In spite of his fire.
quently announced intention OF con-
tinuing every one of Mr.. Harding
advisers In office, probably about the
first to go will be Henry G. Wallace,
secretary of agriculture.
Every day, the long roll Of insist
ances of the widespread disapproval
of the American farmers for the man
at the head of the department whose
work most intimately concerns them,
grows longer. One of the greatest
points of potential democratic
strength is this disapproval Of the
western warmer element for the adj
ministration. as typified by Secretary
Wallace, in particular.
Almost before they discovered it
themselves, the farmers were told by
the farmers organizat ns, market re-
views, economic experts and agricul-
tural publications that the farmer is
the goat in the present economic
situation in the United States.
The farmers have bitterly COM
planned that Secretary Wallace has
gone far out of his way to forecast
financial ruin for the wheat and corn
raisers. and has told the beef raisers
that they must readjust their opera
tions to meet the need of home con-
sumption and bid goodbye to the for
eign market.
Whether or not the administration
leaders would consider the appoint
ment Of Secretary of Agriculture of
a man in sympathy with the radical
views of large part of the agrarian
population of the west, the shelving
of Secretary Wallace would at any
rate rid the Coolidge administration
of a large burden, and in a way wipe
off the slate for a fresh start-with
the advantage of there being hardly
enough time before the 1924 election
for the slate to become very dirty
again.
Secretary Wallace's recent an
iiouncement of his intention to bring
suit against Senator Smith Wildmen
Brookhart for alleged libelous charges
made by the Iowa radical to the effect
that the secretary had been involved
IL Wall street deal in which he had
used his official position to precipi-
tate an agricultural panic, which he
turned to his own financial advantage,
serves to bring to the front an illus
tration of the attitude Of the more
progressive wing of the party towards
Mr.. Wallace.
The crop forecasting service of the |
Department of Agriculture is even
now the target of bitter thrusts on the
part of certain agricultural interests,
an, effort is under way to have the
Bureau of Markets associated from
Secretary Wallace's department and
made a part of the Department of
commerce under Secretary Hoover.
Secretary Wallace has brought down
on his head the wrath of the farmers
OF the great wheat belt by his lack of |
with their proposal for gov
eminent price, fixing and government
purchase of surplus wheat.
In all these things Secretary Wal
lace may be right. His appointment
was not a purely political one; he is |
q native of banner farm state, Iowa, |
q graduate of the Iowa State Agricul-
trral school, a one-time teacher of
agriculture, and an experienced farm |
er AMI stock raiser himself. On the |
face of things, he should seem to be |
man on whom the farmers could |
count to be Jealous and sympathetic
guardian of their interests.
But as matter of cold fact, right
or wrong, Secretary Wallace is not
popular with tbe farmers. He is de-
cidedly unpopular with the great body
of them, in the west, even in his own
state-which is also Senator Brook
hart's.
Considering the fact that the farm
ers of the most numerous section of
the voters of the country, and that
their opposition can defeat any aspir-
ant for presidential honors in 1924,
the wisdom of sacrificing Secretary
Wallace as blood-offering to their |
discomfort is quite plainly apparent.
The farmer is at the present time |
the most disconnected citizen of the |
country with the entire administra-
ton and economic situation. A large |
part of his discomfort centers on the
rerson OF Henry @. Wallace. If, by