The Washington times., 1935-10-16
BELIEVED
SLATED FOR
ICKES JOB
BY EARL GOODWIN

Two Cabinet officers appear
today in the political gossip.
Neither one Of the stories Is new,
but they bob up with a few new
angles.
one story is that Honest Har-
old" Ickes, Secretary Of Interior
and PWA Administrator, will be
out Of the Cabinet by June or July
Of next year.
His successor, the story goes, is
already in the Department OF
Interior-none other than the
smiling and agreeable Charlie
West, the Ohio boy who ran on
. pro Roosevelt ticket for the
Senate and was defeated by Gov
ernor Donahey. Mr.. West, it will
be recalled, was on the Farm
Board, but was engaged mainly in
furthering the White House pro
gram in Congress. =.
It was he, they say, who poked
Congress SO hard that the House
turned a flip-flop on the death
sentence" passing one on the
power holding companies after
taking an anti-adminiStration
stand that nearly put the Admin
istration in sack-cloth and ashes.
Ickes Denies RumOr
Mr.. Ickes always says mo" in a
loud voice when you ask him
whether he is going to resign, but
he is off on the Pacific now and
can't be reached. Mr.. West Is
embarrassed and bushes.
But aside from all that, there
are many ardent IckeS supporters
in PWA who are said to have con-
vinced themselves and each other
that Secretary Ickes is presidential
timber. SO he may be, but there
certainly is no place in the PreSl-
dents Cabinet or in the Demo
cratic party at present for anyone
eyeing the presidential chair. So
these ardent PWA politicians pos
sibly are waiting for the lightning
to strike their hero from some
other party. Mr.. 1ckeS is not a
Democrat, but a sort OF leftover
Bull MooSer.
Or it may be that Mr.. 1ckes'
little group of inner friends have
him picked out for the vice preSi-
dency. It is about time for rumors
of that sort. Meantime, let it be
remembered that the present Vice
President went through Denver
yesterday with only one reporter
and one photographer recognizing
him. -..
Second Rum0r
The other resignation rumor has
q shopworn appearance, because 1t
again puts Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau in the diplomatic
service-in Spain, following Am
bassador Claude Bowers return to
this country to take part in the
reelection-of- Roosevelt campaign.
C1ose-to-the-th -thronerS appear TO-DAY
not to know the details and, II
they are in earnest, the wholesale
changes await the Presidents re-
turn.
one new item appears in this
Morgenthau story: That the next
Secretary Of the Treasury will
be Governor Lehman OF New
York. The practical fellows IN
New York's financial district
have never taken young Mr.. Nor
genthau seriously, referring to
him as "the best Secretary Of the
Treasury since ogden Mills" and
Mr.. Morgenthau himself has
never thrilled over his job. He
says he knows little about money.
But since he has been here he
has built up. q reputation as a |
good organizer and admins |
traitor, and it is true there are |
many divisions Of the Treasury |
with little or nothing to do with
money problems.
Governor Lehman's Wall Street |
connections apparently would see
to it that he came into the Ad. |
ministration with a good hoost |
from business; and 1t might be |
interpreted as one more Admins
tration play toward getting busi- |
ness confidence for the Presi-
dent.
Tydings Is Problem
While the Republicans here are
dizzy trying to watch the merry
go-round Of presidential candi. |
dates, the Democrats are wonder.
ing what they are going to do
about Senator Millard Tydings
Of Maryland, who today appears
TO be the strongest natural Demo
cratic force against the renomina.
tion of Mr.. Roosevelt. Although
they do not credit Senator Tyd- |
tngS with ability to stop the re-
nomination of the President, his
latest play was a speech against |
Roosevelt policies, put into wide
circulation by the American Lib
erty League in book form along |
with quotations from various citi-
zens who approved of the Mary
land Democrats bitter tongue,
1ashing Of his party chieftain.