Evening star., 1932-10-23
DEMOCRAT CABINET
TIMBER SUGGESTED
Roosevelt Will Appoint Aides
for Ability, Say Leaders
Here.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

would be unsafe" fer the American
people to entrust their affairs at this
time to a Democratic administration,
the presidential contests final stages
are being marked by lively long range
guesswork about the Roosevelt cabi-
net" No one, it goes without saying, is
authorized to speak for Gov. Roosevelt
on this highly speculative subject, but
Washington Democratic authorities, who
rank as CLOSE" to him, are making a
few predictions In accents of confidence.
They base their statements on the
certainty" that, should he be elected
President, Gov. Roosevelt will feel a
more than common urge to surround
himself with the ablest possible cabinet
he can build. He would take Office, his
friends say, conscious that he won the
election on the strength of far-reaching
promises to put the chip of state on an
even keel. That would impose upon
Roosevelt the necessity. Democrats
point out, of choosing his crew with
punctuious care-or as much care. with
strict regard to the necessities of the
situation, as the conditions which may
bring him to the White House will per-
NIT. 1t IL an ancient affirmation OF
presidential candidates before c.cction
that. should they win, they would as
sumo cffice heart-whole and fsncy-free.
with no pledges to keep" Nearly ell
politicians knew that such declarations
generally turn out to be more honored
in the breach than in the observance.
Five Mentioned for State.
There is a concensus of Democratic
opinion that Franklin d. Roosevelt
would choose his Secretary OF State
from among five men-Newton u.
Baker, John w. Davis. Owen D. Young,
william G. McAdoo and Frank L. Polk.
Here and there the view is encountered
that AL Smith, as a rewa.i Tor his
presence On the Roosevelt bs.,dwagon,
might be offered the premiership of an
incoming Democratic administration as
chief of the State Department. The
more frequent guess is that Gov. Smith
would be rendered some ether portfolio,
possibly the Secretaryship of Commerce.
For Secretary Of the Treasury two
names are mentioned with a good deal
of persistence-Melvin A. Traylor
president of the First National Bank
of Chicago and lately Illinois favorite
son, and Senator Carter Glass. OF Vlr-
ginia. 1t is not thought likely that Mr.
McAdoo failing of reelection to the
Senate from California, would accept
his old Treasury job If he is not
fclected as Secretary Of State. The
London ambassadorship Is mentioned as
a McAdoo plum AL Smith also figures
In the Treasury portfolio gossip,
In connection with a Roosevelt at
torney generalship, one hears the names
of Gov. Albert C. Ritchie Of Maryland
Senator's Tom Walsh and Burton &
Wheeler of Montana. and former Sena-
to- Jim Reed of Missouri. There are
suggestions that Senator Joe ROBIN
son Of Arkansas, who does not come up
for reelection until 1886. might be
tempted to become Attorney General
because of the unpieasantness he faces
four wears hence, when he is to have
the already signaled opposition OF Sena-
tor Huey Long of Louisiana. NOW anc
then. RobinSon's real ambition Is
described es a seat on the United States
Supreme Court bench.
Financiers Suggested.
Two national Democrats. both finan-
c:ers. come into the Roosevelt cabine'
picture-Bernard M. Baruch OF New
York and Evans Woollen of Indiana
Either of them is branded as Treasury
or Commerce timber. Either, too, II
is said by admirers, would mt into th-
secretaryship of war or the secretary
ship of the navy. because of demon
strated administrative capacity IN their
own affairs and in public life.
For the secretaryShip OF the interior
no name receives more emphatic men.
ton than Gov. George H. Dern OF
Utha. He is close friend OF Gov
Roosevelt and at Chicago in June was
touted as the Democrat whom the Ne"
Yorker most preferred as vice presi-
dental running mate. Then came the
McAdoo- Garner deal and Dern went
into the discard. The Utah Governor. as
a Western man, is thoroughly familiar
with the particular problems that fall
within the scope of the Interior De-
partment. :.
One of the most diverting Roosevelt
cabinet suggestions is the belief that
he would be the first President to give
a woman a departmental portfolio. In
this interesting speculative connection
the name of Miss Frances Perkins, well
known industrial commissioner of New
York State, is honorably mentioned
Some authorities think that il any
Democratic woman is to be given cab
met rank she should be former Gov
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming now
vice chairman of the National Com
mittee.
Honors for South.
What is to be done for the South, in
case of a Roosevelt administration, is
a question that conjures up many
names of Dixie Democrats held worthy
of placement in a Roosevelt household
In addition to Senator Glass, men like
former Gov Harry F. Byrd Of Virginia,
Senator ,Jchn l., Cohen of Georgia and
former Representative Charles F. Crisp
of Georgia are catalogued as possibili-
ties.
Other deserving Democrats who bulk
more or less in the re-election Roose-
man H. Davis of New York, now in
Europe as President Hcoyer's Disarma-
ment and Economic Conference ennis
sary and heralded as potential Secre-
tary of State after next March; Daniel
C. Roper of North Carolina, former
Wilson Post Office and Treasury De-
partment official; Joseph E. Tumulty
of New Jersey. Woodrow wilson's IA
nous chief of staff: former Gov. James
M. Cox of Ohio, Gov. Ely of Massachu-
sets, Gov. Cross of Connecticut. Mayor
Frank Murphy of Detroit, Charles H.
Sabin of New York, Homer Cummings
Of Connecticut and Robert w. Bingham
of Kentucky.
Only one Roosevelt cabinet job is q
copper -bottomed certainty-the post
master generalship riveted down for
James A. Farley, organizer Of victory
for Roosevelt at Chicago and generals
simo of his presidential campaign forces