The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-13
LADORERS in
Gal AEHAErWAnn
PICKING PLUMS
Harvest Rich But the
Pickers Are Many
BY LAURENCE TODD.

/ STOIeSquS WISH luu26u ny OF
binary standards, to be the basis
for serious speculation as to how
President Coolidge will distrib-
ute the spoiIs of his victory at
the polls. Whether one goes to
the White House offices, the
state department corridors, the
offices of senators and cabinet
members or the lobby of any
Washington theatre, he hears
the new cabinet in process of
formation and the new commit
tees of the house and senate
being revised.
While conservative newspa-
pers are now begging Coolidge
and his advisers to avoid an
arrogant attitude of reaction,
the hard-faced politicians from
the state headquarters are flock
| ing to town to demand jobs. If
they don't get jobs there will be
trouble.
Wyoming, normally reactionary,
came near falling out of the Cool
idge column this year. Yet Frank
Mondell, defeated two years ago in the
senate race in that desert state, is
considered likely to get a cabinet
place. He presided at the Cleveland
convention. If he is not made secre-
tary of agriculture he may become
secretary of the interior-thereby CIV
ing Coolidge joke on the conserva-
tionists who have asked that Secre-
tary Work be thrown out. Work was
a faithful pupil of Fall, but Mondell,
if he gets the chance, won't hesitate
10 give away power sites in Yellow
stone Park.
Harry Daugherty's friends deny
hat he will come back into the cabi-
let They say he is making $25O,O0O
year right now, as corporation law
err. The nature of the business and
ne amount Of taxes avoided by his
tents is not given.
| Young Roosevelt is to be cared for
/ probably by the navy or war sec
retaryship. Charles Beecher Warren
of the beet sugar trust, who had
charge of the platform-writing at the
Coolidge convention last June, is men.
toned as a rival to Col. George Har-
vey and Herbert Hoover for the secre-
taryship of state, in case Hughes can
be persuaded that his duty to his fam
lily requires that he resume the prac-
! tice of law. Hughes will say moth
ing just now. but the chances are that
he will quit in March. If Harvey be-
comes his successor, Warren will be
offered another cabinet post or the
London embassy.
Herbert Hoover is a problem. Like
| Winston Churchill in Great Britain,
he is source of worry to the party
to which he declares his allegiance.
Coolidge would be glad to keep him
as secretary of commerce, but would
not welcome him to the state depart
ment. Neither would he want Hoover
to return to private business. Why?
Because Hoover still thinks himself a
possible nominee for the presidency.
Coolidge wants to keep that nominal
ton in his own control-the control
of Andy Mellon and Frank Stearns.
Hoover as head of the cabinet would
be able to use all the publicity ma
chinery of his ONCE to make himself
an overtowering figure within the
4 party. He would eclipse the Mellon
Stearns-Coolidge crowd in the public
eye. And il he went back TO private
life, he would be free to organize his
campaign in disregard of the wishes
of the administration.
1t is true that the politicians in the
Coolidge party we're in despair six
months ago. They thought the demo
Gratis would win, hands down. Remem-
bering that, they do not feel that
Hoover is an immediate peril. But
they are cautious men, and want to
avoid any bad chances.
Chairman Butler will presumably
be appointed to the senate as the tenn
porary successor to Lodge, upon the
latter's death. Gillett, coming into
the senate at the request of Coolidge,
will share the disposal of Massachu-
sets patronage. But Butler will con.
troll appointments that generally fall
to the national chairman of the win.
ming party. In return for favors, he
will be given influential places on sem
ate committees. A drive will be start
ed to put the Mellon tax reduction
scheme thru congress this winter II
will fail, and President Coolidge will
distribute federal jobs and salaries az
terward with the applicants attitude
on this issue clearly in mind.
Soothing progressives watch the pro-
cession Of job hunters as II enters the
White House grounds, and predicts a
smash in 1926. They trust Dawes and
Melloniand the Coolidge crowd to pull
down the pillars OF their political
house upon themselves within these
next two years.
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