Evening star., 1932-11-14
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

No authority for it seems to be forth
coming, but the story is kicking around
Capitol Hill that Senator George H
Moses next job is going to be that Of
Republican censor-in- chief Of the Roose-
velt administration and the Democratic
party in general during the next -four
years. AS one version of the tale puts
it, his task will be to smear" Roose-
Velt in the same manner as the Repub-
licans alleged Hoover was "smeared
under the astute direction of Charles
Nicholson, Democratic publicity direc-
tor. Time and again between 1929 and
last weeks tragedy. G. o. P. leaders
sighed for Nicholson. Moses was not
available as long as he was in the Sen
ate, but now that New Hampshire has
given him an indefinite leave of alb
sence. the famed Republican cynic and
wisecracker is foot-loose. Whether he
bankers for such work is another ques-
ton. He's an editor by profession. Two
years ago one of the country's great
newspaper chains offered him an execu-
tive post at nearly three times his con-
gresSional pay. If Moses could bf
tempted into the task of directing Re-
publican fire at the enemy's trenches
after March 4th, they'd know they were
being shelled, all right.
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One hundred and sixty-count 'em
160-'favorite sons" are listed by the
New York Times as eligible" Roosevelt
cabinet timber. They include Unite q
States Senators, Representatives, State
Governors. former cabinet officers anc
Federal office holders, and local small
fry in droveS. As the President-elect
has just 10 portfolios to give away, anc
| $50 Barkises are in receptive mood, WE
get back to the ratio of Is to l, which
the Democratic party has heard of once
before in its history. Agreement is
unanimous that only one Roosevelt
! cabinet post may already be considered
settled-the postmaster generalship ear.
marked for big Jim" Farley. Tht
Mark Hanna of 1882, who chews gun
necessarily and never forgetSsa name
or face, will fit naturally into the
| portfolio allocated by tradition to the
incoming Presidents Warwick. Frank
H. Hitchcock, Will H. Hays, Huber
Work and Walter F. Brown, Republican
Postmaster Generals in our time, al
we're appointed after successful cam.
paign managerial service.
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VIII President Roosevelt reward tn,
millions of Republicans, without who's
votes he couldn't have been elected, with
| cabinet post, and If so, who'll tht
| lucky man be? Few Republicans o
widely national renoWn, except the Re.
! publican Progressive senatorial group
bolted Hoover for Roosevelt. Richart
Washburn Child, former Ambassador II
| Italy. led the Republicans-for-R Roose
velt League. William Draper Lewis O
! Pennsylvania, director of the American
Law Institute, Is a former Republican
who went Democratic in 1892. Samue
Harden Church, president of the Car
negie Institute Of Technology, is an
other. Several Presidents have recog
nized with cabinet plums men of oppo
site political faith who supported them
Grover Cleveland made President Ar
thurs Postmaster General, Walter G
Gresham, Secretary of State in 1898
President Hoover's Attorney General
| William Dewitt Mitchell, had loni
ranked as a Democrat when appointe'
to the Department Of Justice in 1929.
William Tyler Page. veteran forme
clerk of the House Of Representative
and author of The Americans Creed
is to the front with the prize election
yarn of the season. A woman vote
strolled into a nearby Virginia pollini
booth on November and said sh
wanted to vote wet" An Official ban
teringly asked her why, Well sh
replied, "it's like this Before prohibi
ton I always knew where to find m
| husband. He was in a saloon, drunk
Since prohibition he's drunk all tn