Evening star., 1929-12-02
MOSES OR CLARK
MAY co TO MEXICO
Both Mentioned to Succeed
Morrow, Who Comes to
Senate Soon.

The names of Senator George H
Moses of New Hampshire and j. Reu-
ben Clark. jr, former Undersecretary oi
State, were mentioned today as pos.
sible successors to Dwight w. Morrow
as Ambassador to Mexico following the
announcement from New Jersey that
Mr.. Morrow is to occupy the seat re-
Gently vacated by another Ambassador
Walter E. Edge.
Senator Moses was absent from Wash
ington. His name has been mentioned
in connection with several diplomatic
posts now filled and it is known that
he has refused to consider any work
which would take him out of the Sem
ate at this time. There were SuggeS-
tions that pressure might be brought to
cause a change of mind.
Larson announcement a Surprise.
The announcement of Gov. Larson
that Mr.. Morrow would be appointed
TO the Senate and then would run for
the Republican nomination later ap-
peared to have caught official Wash
1ngton very much off guard. State De-
partment officials would not even admit
that Mr.. Morrow would resign his Gov
ernment commission upon the compile
ton OF his work at the London Arms
Conference. They met all inquiries
with the statement that they knew
nothing of his intentions.
The name of Mr.. Clark readily came
to mind in some official circles. He
has been in Mexico for several months
and is widely versed in Mexican al
fairs, to which he gave particular as-
tention while serving as Undersecre-
tary TO Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of
State.
E The wide boundaries of the surprise
manifest in Washington with the pub
licatlon of Gov. LarSen's announcement
was attributed largely to the emphatic
mancer in which Ambassador Morrow
on a recent visit here, scotched then
prevalent rumorS that he might enter
the New Jersey senatorial race.
While his retirement from the diplo-
matte service will cause some reshift-
ing in the foreign field, the candidacy
of the former partner in the Morgan
banking house in the New Jersey Sena-
torial race next year may go a long
way toward clarifying the Republican,
political situation in that State.
New Jersey G. o. P. Situation Clarified.
Previous to the Larsen announcement
the Republican situation in New Jersey
was somewhat muddled, with the pros
pect that there would be three candl-
dates for the Republican nomination,
two generally regarded as the organiZa-
ton and the other an anti-organiZatioIl
man. former Senator Joseph FTeling-
huySen.
David Baird, jr., of Camden has been
named to succeed Senator Edge, who
leaves soon for Paris to take over his
new duties, but he is to retire as soon
as Morrow can take the seat after the
London naval conference ends. 1t had
been expected that both Baird and
Representative Franklin D. Fort, close
personal friend of the President, would
be candidates against Frelinghuysen.
Some of those familiar with the Re-
publican situation in New Jersey in
terpreted the entry of Mr.. Morrow into
the political field as preSaging the re-
tirement from the senatorial race of
both Mr.. Baird and Mr.. Fort.
When Ambassador Morrow was here
recently he regarded his work in Mexico
as far from completed, and so keen was
his desire to finish the job there that
he declined to consider appointment as
Secretary of State when Mr.. Hoover
was selecting his cabinet. He was urged
for that place at the time by AmbaS-
sador, then Senator, Edge and many
other Republican leaders Of New Jersey.