Evening star., 1925-10-14
Politics at Large
By G.. Gould Lincoln

ing Secretary Weeks, who yesterday
retired from Office. will meet with gen.
eral satisfaction in Missouri, Mr..
| strengthen the kindly feeling toward
| the administration there. 1t is q rec
ognition Of the Republicans Of Mis-
| souri, to have d member of the cabinet
from that State, which they have felt
was due them. Mr.. Davis has been
an active Republican ever since he
attained his majority. He is liked and
admired by all factions of the party
and has a record of unselfish public
service in St. Louis. Had he not been
appointed Secretary of War, In all
likelihood he would have been a can
didate for the Republican nomination
for Senator from Missouri next year.
1t is understood now that he will not
enter the race for the Senate.
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Judge George II. Williams, who has
been appointed Senator by the Repub-
lican governor to fill thes unexpired
term of the late Senator Spencer, is
already an active candidate for the
Republican nomination and Ia expect
ed to be the party nominee. Since his
appointment several months ago
Judge Williams has not come to
Washington, but has opened head
quarters in St. Louis and has been
busily engaged in campaigning for
the nomination next year. He and
DR.. T.. B. Clements, Republican ma
tional committeeman, have been hold
ing Republican harmony meetings"
In nearly every county in the State.
No serious opposition to the candidacy
of Judge Williams for the Republican
nomination has yet raised its head.
Representative Harry p. Hawes Of
ST. Louis IS an avowed candidate for
the Democratic nomination for the
Senate against Judge Williams. He.
too. has been campaigning. Ewing
Cockrell. son OF the late Senator
Cockrell. who represented Missouri
for so many years. has senatorial as
perations. also. and is making a can
vass to determine his chances for the
Democratic nomination. The signs,
however, point to the nomination of
Representative Hawes.
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It is an interesting if not signifi-
cant fact that with the appointment
of Secretary Davis to the War port
folio, s out of the 10 members Of
President Coolidges cabinet hail from
States west of the Mississippi River.
The West has never before been so
largely represented in a Presidents 8
cabinet, 1t is believed. Besides, Secre-
tary Davis. those from the West are
Secretary of State Kellogg of Mime
sofa. Secretary Of the Navy Wilbur of
California, Secretary of Commerce
Hoover of California, Secretary OF
Agriculture Jardine of Iowa and Sec
retary of the Interior Work of Colo
RADIO.
Only one member of the cabinet is
from New England, Attorney General
Sargent of Vermont. Secretary or the
Treasury Mellon Is from Pennsylvania.
The Postma ster General. Harry New,
is from d Middle Western State, In
diana, and Secretary Davis OF the De-
partment OF Labor, like Mr.. Mellon, Is
from Pennsylvania.
President Coolidge has appointed
four Of these Western members OF the
cabinet. Secretary Kellogg was Sc
lected by him to fill the place made
vacant by the resignation of Secretary
Hughes of New York: Secretary VIII
bur came to the Navy Department TO
succeed Secretary DENLY of Michigan;
Secretary Jardine of Kansas nils the
place of the late Secretary Wallace OF
Iowa and Secretary Davis replaces a
Massachusetts man. the ATTORNEY
Generalship is the only cabinet post
which President Coolidge has hlled by
appointment from the East. first with
Harlan F. Stone of New York, now
an associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, and then with John G. Sar-
gent of Vermont.
The Democrats have insisted, In sea
son and out, that the present Republic
an administration is an adminlStra-
tion of the East, and particularly of
New England. They have sought to
impress this fact upon the voters OF
the West in every possible way. But
in view of the present regional com
plexion of the Coolidge cabinet. with
of the 10 big executive depart
ments presided over by men from the
country west of the Mississippi, they
NAV have to revise their estimate
The West seems to have come into It's
own at last. so far as important onces
in the Federal Government are con-
cerned.
What will be the outcome OF the
senatorial election in Missouri neN
year is problematical. The state
gave President Coolidge last year fo,-
600 more votes than John w. DAVIS,
Ia Toilette receiving "a, 900. 1t went
for Harding in 1920 by $4,000. Yet
in 1922 Senator Reed, Democrat, won
nv $4,000. The Republicans insist,
however, that they have a very good
chance Of electing their candidate next
wear. and the appointment of Mr.:
Dayis to the cabinet will help toward
this result it is believed. The present
Republican governor. Baker, was
elected by 100000 votes over his
Democratic opponent last year.
Unless all signs fail. North Dakota
will go through the next session OF
Congress represented by. one Senator
in the Senate instead of two. Gov.
Arthur Sorlie, Non-Partisan Lacquer.
elected as a Republican,, has taken
no steps to call a special election. and
il seems pretty definitely settled he
has no authority to appoint Senator
to serve in the place of the late Sena-
for Ladd until an election be held.
Statewide primaries are to be held
in North Dakota early next Spring
for nomination of candidates to be
elected In November. Had Senator
Ladd lived, he would have stood for
denomination at that time, as his term
expires March 3, 1927. 1t is expected
now that Gov. Sorlie will make bid
for the senatorial nomination himself
in those primaries, and If nominated.
will seek election in the following
November. Gov. Sorlie's term as gov
ernor expires in January, 1927, and
if he is elected to the Senate in ac-
cordance with the indicated program,
he will be able practically to complete
his term Of governor before coming to
the Senate. Gov. Sorlie has not been
as radical as many of the Non-Parti-
san Leaguers desire, it is reported
from North Dakota. In some quarters
it is suggested that he is angling for
the support of the conservative wing
of the Republican party of the State
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