Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
The Political Mill
Choice Of Jones for Cabinet Post indicates
New Deal Bid for Business Vote

he would have a tough time getting
him confirmed.
The Political Post.
The off1ce of Postmaster General
has for years been considered more
political" than any other cabinet
post. This may seem strange, in
view Of the fact that the Postmaster
General has to run the largest busi-
ness in the country-the handling
of the mails. 1t grew out of the
fact that hundreds and thousands of
postmasters were appointed largely
for political reasons, and the POST
master General was considered in
some measure the head of a po-
tential political force extending all
through the country.
Mr.. Farley, the Presidents first
political lieutenant, was selected for
the job of Postmaster General al
most as a matter of course when
Mr.. Roosevelt took Office. Mr.. Farley
was chairman OF the Democratic
National Committee, a job which
he continued to hold after he en-
tered the cabinet, and one which
he only relinquished a few days ago.
If the President followed his own
precedent he would place ed"
Flynn, the new Democratic ma
tional chairman, in the Post Office
Department. Whoever is appointed,
1T will probably have its political
aspect. Among those who have
been mentioned" for Farleys post
in the cabinet is Frank c. Walker,
New York lawyer, an old friend
OF the President. Mr.. Walkers name
crops up every time an Office is to
be filled. He was discussed fire.
quently as the new head of the
Democratic National Committee,
when it was announced in July
that Mr.. Farley was to step out.
Unlike Mr.. Hopkins, Mr.. Farley
was not believer in a third term
nomination for the President. He
did not believe in third terms for
any President. He has agreed to
60 along-asserting that a Farley
never deserted the Democratic
ticket. But that has not changed
his fundamental antipathy to
third term, and that is the situation.
McNary Woos Farm Vote.
Senator McNary of Oregon, Re-
publican vice presidential nominee,
has accepted formally the nominal
ton. delivering a speech dealing
particularly with agriculture. He
was placed on the ticket b. the
Republican National Convention to
attract the farm vote, for he has
been known as the friend of the
farmer ever since the days of he
McNary- Haugen bill, which was
turned down by President Calvin
Coolidge. The Oregon Senator still
hanks back to the underlying princi-
Piles of the bill, which was designed
to give the American farmer higher
prices for his products sold in the
domestic market while making it
possible to sell the surplus products
of American farms at lower rates in
the world market.
Mr.. McNary has been a strong
opponent of the reciprocal trade
agreement developed by the Roose-
welt administration under the
tutelage of Secretary of Stale Hull.
He holds these agreements with
foreign countries have given the
American farmers a raw deal-per-
hitting foreign producers to send
their farm products into this coun-
try and take away some of the
domestic market.
Wendell L. Willkie, unlike Mr..
McNary, has declared he favors the
principle of the trade agreements.
There he speaks for some of the
manufacturing interests of the
country. Mr.. McNary, while he OPP
posed "appeasement" presumably
of Messrs. Hitler, Mussolini and
Stalin-was much more isolation
list" in his discussing of foreign af-
fairs than was the Republican NOM
inee for President. Also Mr.. Nc
Nary has been favorable to the de-