The Washington times., 1924-05-03
NEGLECTED
LEADERS
FEEL
Point Out That Seven Out of
Ten Cabinet Members Are
From Sea Coast
By WILLIAM HARD.

By WILLIAM HARD.
Two results were apparent to-
day from the prospective replace
ment Of John T. Adams, Of Iowa,
by William M. Butler, of Massa-
chusetts, as chairman of the Repub-
Ncan National Committee.
The first is that in Congresssa
certain fresh outburst of hostility
has been aroused against the pres
ent prominence of Eastern persons
in the affairs of the Republican
party.
Middle West Aggrieved.
1t is pointed out by aggrieved
representatives of the Mississippi
valley that they come from a region
which at least is large and spacious
and is supposed to be the heart of
the country and that nevertheless
the plums and the perquisites, if
any, seem to be going to people on
the country's outward rims.
A Secretary of the Navy from
Michigan, Mr.. DENLY, has been re-
placed by a Secretary of the Navy
from California, Mr.. Wilbur. An
Attorney General from Ohio, Mr..
Daugherty, has been replaced by
an Attorney General from New
York, Mr.. Stone. Now national
Republican committee chairman
from Iowa, Mr.. Adams, is to be re-
placed by a national Republican
, committee chairman from Massa-
chusetts. Mr.. Butler.
These sad occurrences have
caused heart burnings among the
Republican braves from the reserva-
tions Of the Middle West. They are
hard pressed by the Democrats in
Ohio, where there is a strongly
fortified Democratic governor, and
in Indiana, where the Republican
governor has got into trouble with
Federal Judge Anderson, and in
Illinois, where the faction fight be-
tween the Medill Mccormick Repub.
licans and the Len Small Rspub-
licans Is threatening to give a
chance Of victory to the willy and
vigorous Illinois Democratic bUss,
George Brennan. ~
Want Recognition" ~
The Middle Western Republicans
think they are in need Of what is
pleasantly called recognition"
They think that few nice, large
jobs judiciously distributed among
Middle Westerners would flatter
their immediate local fellow-citizens
and would greatly help to keep the
Middle West loyal to the principles
Of the Grand Old Party.
They view with horror the fact
that today in the Cabinet, among
ten Cabinet members, there are
only three-namely, Postmaster
General New, of Indiana, and Sec
letary Of Agriculture Wallace, Of
Iowa, and Secretary of the Interior
Work, of Colorado-who come from
what they call dry land"
All the other seven members of
the Cabinet come from States which
are on salt water or which at any
rate have ports on rivers which
flow Immediately into salt water.
This is thought to be too had.
Massachusetts, is represented by
Secretary of War Weeks New
York is represented by Secretary of
State Hughes and additionally by
Attorney General Stone. Pennsyl-
vania is represented both by Secre-
tary of the Treasury Mellon and by
Secretary of Labor Davis. Califor-
MIA, at the other end of the coun.
try, on the undoubtedly salt water
OF the Pacific, is represented doubly
by Secretary of Commerce Hoover
and by Secretary of the Navy Will
bur.
This situation is thought by
numerous resentful Middle Western.
ers to show a great lack of apprc.
citation Of their just deserts and of
their present enormous political diff
ficulties.
Such is the first result of the
prospective browning of Mr.. Butler
of Massachusetts as the Republican
National Party working chief.
Chairman Friendly.
The second result is happier. It
appears that good feeling prevails
between the retiring chairman and
the incoming chairman Of the Re.
publican National Committee. 1t
appears that the retiring chairman.
Mr.. Adams, remains filled with the
greatest goodwill toward President
Coolidge and toward the new chair.
man, Mr.. Butler. 1t also appears
that in so far as Mr.. Buffers
record produces any indication of
his future policy there will not be
much change in the ideas and poll
cies OF the Republican National