Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-03
PRESIDENT SEEKING
M|D-WESTER|VER As
ATTORNEY GENERAL
RY DAVID LAWRENCE
(I.eased Wire Service TO The Journal')
DOWNRIGHT 1921


dent Coolidge will choose an attorn-
ey general from the middle west or
west-and not from the east.
This much has been decided upon.
though the individual who will fill
all the requirements of the present
situation has. not yet been selected.
The president is giving considera
ton to the geographical questions
which enter into the makeup OF
cabinets. He already has a member
from Massachusetts in the secretary
of war The Democrats have beei
getting ready to raise the cry Oh
New England domination IN the
goverrment since the speaker OF the
house and the chairman OF several
innortant committees come from
Massachusetts as does the hepuo-
lican leader of the senate.
To add another man from Massa'
chusetts. it is recognized, Woulu SIN
plv add ammunition to Mr.. Coolluse
opnonents Coupled with TINS Is ~
fact that Chief Justice RuSS' OIL ene
Massa chusetts supreme coulI
would be chosen if anyone from ~"
England were taken, wouio nav
wish to take the attorney 80
task ar this time unless he could looh
forward
s,n,,en1e court of the United states
and there is no telling just "heh 'No
next vacancy will occur:
Radicals Uurge Kenyon
The outgoing attorney genera
,,n,e from the middle west and IL 10
+s natural that his successor shoulo NC
ohoser from the region west of the
Alleghenies. A.. ,,,,b1ican
rartv as we'll as some conservatives
are clamoring for the appointment ~
JI,dee William S. Kenyon, OF IoWa,
former member of the united ola
senate. Unfortunately these I%u1 TO-
ooIs have given the impression tha'
thev are debating to the presioenta
some reports significantly lhoi 'tod
tha{ if Mr.. Kenyon were appolhUeu'
~ investigation Of the depaftiiles,a
- iustice under Mr.. Daugnerty
,'a,in,o would be slowed down: W.
1aaIidse doesn't want to be IN wy
nosition of purchasing immunity Lo'
80, dansrtment Of his admlhls'i0
ton. 80 +ho+ Judge
Konvon declined recently the /
dort,s offer of the secretatysiip
tha navy. Some people tnlnH ~, nc
should have responded to eau III
service irrespective of personal 80
venience. and his argument ~
was that he was not tempeIa,li ~,
" fitted for the position. nat W.,
Cooliee wanted was not SONS 80
Coor so,,rv about battleships but
about the efficient admlnlstralloi
the ri, reserves of the country.
'"I T,,d,ro xenvon. however, has spent
bic life in the legal profession. He
WAS an assistant attorney genera
,nder the Taft administration. IL
was natural for him to wish TO re-
main on the bench rather than take
the. navy portfolio. M.
While the president may not IKE
some of the tactics of those VINO are
pressing for Mr.. Kenyons appoint
n1ent he can not fail to note that
the demand is a significant show Oh
strength and that to disappolnt the
radicals, and particularly the farm
bloc over which Kenyon presided
when he was in the senate, Would
be a. severe blow. Indeed, it mlght
be the indirect cause OF nomlna.
ton of Kenyon to the presidency IL
Senator La Toilette should happen
to be too i'll to run.
Talked for Vice Presidency
Some of the friends of President
Coolidge, recognizing Mr.. Kenyon
remarkable strength in the west,
strength due to his conscientious ap'
plication TO duty while in the SEN
ate, are talking OF him for the vice
presidential nomination. In fact, II
would be most pleasing to Mr.. Cool
idge to have Kenyon as running
mate.
Would the Coolidge administration
be in a better position to draft Ken
yon fo1 the vice presidency after he
has served for few months 8 at
torney general? This is one of the
questions being discussed in the in
ner circle. Certainly the same rea'
soning which prompted Mr.. Coolidge
to offer the secretaryship of the
navy to Judge Kenyon is being APP
, Lfslied now-for he carries convic-
r ton in the west. And Mr.. Coolidge's
principal attack has come from the
west, 1t is the battle-ground OF the
next campaign. At the moment
Judge Kenyon's candidacy for the
portfolio of attorney general has
awakened the interest Of so many
: members of the United States SEN
ate who have written to the presi.
dent or communicated their thoughts
to his advisers that until some one
else with exactly his qualifications
can be found who will satisfy both
wings of the Republican party, the
chances are still in favor of the ap.
pointment of the former senator
from Iowa