Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-03-08
WASHINGTON
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Taken by the Helm News Service

OldllSllCiduS nave JUST ItpOIlcu
that of the 22,521,525 Roosevelt
voters in the election of last No
vember, 22,521,524 subsequently
announced a vastly superior abil-
ity to pick out the new cabinet of
the new president than Mr.. Roose-
welt and his close advisers them
selves possessed, and that there
were 22,521,523 different selec-
tiOns.
1t is safe to say when the pres
ident started upon the task of
choosing men to head the great
departments of government under
his regime, his mind was not be-
fuddled with any idea that he was
going to please everybody. 1t is
also safe to say that Mr.. Roosevelt
was not particularly worried over
prospective Republican reaction to
his final decisions. Wherefore it
may be set down as exceeding
strange that acclaim for the new
cabinet is practically unanimous
among Republican spokesman, in
GLIDING the Republican press,
while from Democratic sources
Well, the new cabinet was stud
led with mingled feelings by Dem
ocrats in the capital when its
hitherto missing items became
known. Enthusiasm was definite
ly lacking for the cabinet as a
whole, although certain appoint
ments, notably that of Senator
Hull for secretary of state, were
cordially greeted. Other persons
designated to sit around the table
with the president also had their
adherents, and the only express
sions made for publication are all
favorable. But there is an OBJ
vious undercurrent in which dis
appointment and wonder were
mixed in about equal parts.
Take, for example, the Balti-
more Sun. The loyalty of the Sun
to the tenets of Democracy has
never been questioned. The Sun
vigorously supported Maryland's
governor, Albert Richie, for the
Democratic nomination. Mr.. Ritch-
lie accepted his defeat at Chicago
with the grace of a Chesterfield
the tact of a Raleigh and the wis
dom of a Socrates. The Sun &C.
cepted the inevitable with enthus-
iasm which while it never reached
the boiling point was somewhat
hotter than luke-warm. But the
Suns nationally known columist
Frank R. Kent, has been unable to
get yer his disappointment. Faint
is the praise he bestows upon the
president and his policies, and be.
tween the lines of Mr.. Kent's ar.
ticles can be read: "I'm still damn
sore and | don't care who knows
it."
According to Mr.. Kent, the pic
ture of the Roosevelt cabinet as il
developed seemed more extraordi.
nary for the figures that do not
appear than for the ones that do
"For example," says Mr.. Kent
there are living three former can
didates for the presidency, all ac-
tive, all available, all in their
prime, all supporters of the ticket
James M. Cox, with whom Mr.
Roosevelt a in 1920; John w
Davis, the candidate in 1924, and
Alfred E. Smith, who ran in 1923,
Then there r two others for
whom there was a great deal of
popular sentiment as the party's
choice last year and who figured
Importantly in the Chicago con-
vention as rivals-Albert c. Ritch-
lie and Newton D. Baker. None OF
these are in the cabinet. 1t is be-
lieved none of them has been
asked.
From presumably authentic
sources came a statement that
Newton Baker had been asked
and had emphatically declined
There is a persistent rumor that
AL Smith expressed a determin-
alton to sit nowhere except at the
head of the table. So far as the
other erstwhile presidential aspir.
ants are concerned, it is thought
that whatever may have beer
their qualifications for White
house occupancy there is some
question as to whether or not they
measured up to cabinet requisite:
and responsibilities. Maybe Gov.
ernor Richie was ignored, but
there are those in Washington WHIT
will lay 10 to l that he wasn't.
On the other hand, that out,
standing Republican organ, tht
New York Herald Tribune, sug.
gests that the making of a cabinet
in February is not the simple mat
ter that the eloquent admirers Of
a candidate represent it to be il
October. "The cabinet of giants
comments the Herald Tribune, re
ferring to the list of elder Demo
cratic statesmen put forward al
an earnest of the sort of admins
t%ration that might be expected i
Democracy prevailed on election
day, "has definitely gone over thu
political dam, but there are prac
tical reasons for this change anC