Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
Independent in
Selection of
Aides.
FAILS TO PICK
SOUTHERN MAN
Every Other Section
Is Represented,
However.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.


in picking his cabinet, has selected
men of ability, qualified for the
posts to which they have been
chosen, in the opinion of official
Washington.
He has placed a Democrat in
the office of Attorney General,
William D. Mitchell of Minnesota.
His Secretary of the Navy, Charles
Francis Adams of Massachusetts,,
is reckoned a Republican, but a
few years ago was an independent.
The President elect has shown
his own independence in filling
the cabinet Offices. He has failed
to do several things which were
predicted.
He has not picked Southern
man to fill cabinet position. Nor
has he placed in his cabinet a
woman or a Catholic. At the close
of the campaign it was freely pre-
dicted that the political exigencies
would bring Mr.. Hoover to do
these things, but he has not.
All But Two In Public Eye.
The men whom Mr.. Hoover has Sc
lected for his official family are, with
the exception perhaps Of two, men who
have been in the public eye. The two
exceptions-Charles Francis Adams OF
Massachusetts and Robert Patterson
Lamont of Illinois-are by no means
unknown. They have made their
mark, and their selections, while not
predicted, are said to be remarkably
happy. Mr. Lamont's name is familiar
in industrial and engineering circles,
and he has been a prominent member
of the Chamber of Commerce OF the
United States.
Two of the Hoover cabinet are hold
overs from the Coolidge administration
Secretary Andrew w. Mellon and Sec
retary James j. Davis The other eight
are new to the cabinet-eXcept Henry
L. Stimson, who served as Secretary OF
War in the Taft administration more
than Is years ago. Mr.. Stimson be-
comes Secretary of State. 1t will be
Washington from the Philippines, where
he has been governor general.
Every section of the country Is repre-
sented in the Hoover cabinet except the
South. The East has three members,
Secretary Mellon of the Treasury from
| Pennsylvania; Secretary Davis from
| the same State. and Henry L. Stimson
of New York. New England has sin
| gle representative. Charles Francis
Adams, who halls from Massachusetts
and is to control the Navy Department
| The Middle West has four members,
James w. Good of Iowa, to be Secre-
tary of War; Walter F. Brown of Ohio
to be Postmaster General; Robert Pat
| terson Lamont of Illinois. to be Secre-
tary of Commerce, and Arthur M
Hyde of Missouri, to be Secretary OF
Agriculture. The Northwest has sin
gle member, William D. Mitchell OF
Minnesota, to be Attorney General. The
member, Ray Lyman Wilbur OF Cali
fornia. the President-elect's own State
Omission of Southerner Hailed.
The omission from the cabinet OF
| any Southerner is frankly hailed with
pleasure by Democrats of the South
| They say that it will be regarded IN
the South as fat failure of recognition
OF the part which that section OF the
country played in the election OF Mr
| Hoover-four of the States OF the solid
South having cast their electoral votes
for him and all of the border States SO
called. It is known that some OF the
most influential Republican leaders-not
from the South-recommended to Mr..
Hoover that the South be recognized
with a cabinet Office. frankly declaring
that If the Republican party is to retain
a hold on that section, such an appoint
ment would help to convince the people
OF the South that the Republican party
would give that section OF the country
greater consideration than 1t has re-
ceived at it's hands in the past
1t is a question, however, whetner
the appointment of cabinet ofhcer
from the South would in reality have
had any real bearing on the matter
Republican Presidents in the past have
given cabinet officers to Southerners
but 1t is not on record that 1t had any
effect on the results of the following
elections. Doubtless, If Mr.. Hoover had
found exactly the man he desired for
appointment to his cabinet in the
South, the position would have been
rendered him.
1t is believed that the cabinet ap-
pointees of Mr.. Hoover will run the
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