Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24
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Has Made No
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SOkOLSkYa
BY GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY1,

ton concerning the Dewey Ca.
binet should intrigue political
writers and magazine editors
Few Of them will prove correct
when the time comes for a,ut
pointment. / do not know arbe
more about it than my confre.
res, nor do I believe that Cover.
nor Dewey is very much better
posted on the subject at this
moment. .,...r ....Nr
Governor Dewey is not one Of
those swelling chested big city
man he meets on the back and
promises him his hearts con.
tent. A small-town person, shy
slow to form personal friend.
ships, he avoids commitments
Some Republicans, who do no,
understand Dewey, and his team
and their methods, may have as.
sumed that silence, in. the face
of an expressed, wish, NEAR,
consent. But that is not De J
wey's nature. When he does not
say a thing, it has not beer
promised. 1t has taken somh
New Workers a decade to lea1I
that.
Most Of the guesses center
ON the Dewey team in Albany
but the widest speculations arc
being publicized about so-called
eligibles. The Dewey team il
not coterie of personTl
friends or kitchen cabineI
1t is a responsible body of ex-
traordinarily loyal and skilled
men and women who share with
the Governor Of the State Of
New York his work, political
and administrative. / here list
them with their titles in al.
phabetical order:
Glen R. Bedenkapp, Chair.
man, New York Republican
State Committee; Elliott v. Bell
State Superintendent of Banks
R. Burdell Bixby, Assistant Se-
cretary; Charles D. Breitel
counsel to Dewey; Herbert
Brownell, Jr, Manager of the
1913 Campaign; John E. Burton
Director OF the Budget; Alger B
Chapman, Commissioner of Tax,
alton and Finance and President
of the State Tax Commissiont
John Foster Dulles; Hamilton
Gaddis, Assistant Secretary
James C. Hagerty, Exective
Assistant; Edwin Jackie, Chair.
man Erie County Republican
Committee; Harold Keller, Conn
missioner Department of Com.
merce; Paul E. Lockwood, Se-
cretary; William T. Pheiffer
Hickman Powell; J. RusselSpra,
que, Republican National Cone
mitteeman; Roger william
Straus; Jane H. Todd, Vice
Chairman, New York Republican
State Committee; Mrs. Charlel
w. Weis, Jr., Republican Ma
tional Committeewoman.
Obviously, all of these persona
cannot be on his Cabinet be-
cause they are all from New
York and no President could af-
ford to load his Cabinet toe
heavily with members from one
state or even one section Of the
country.
= 1t is therefore correct to as
sumo that whatever Cabinet DE-
wey appoints is likely to be ma
tionwide in personnel and
broadly representatives OF vary
ing segments of the Republican
Party. Supported Fundamentally
even by those who opposed his
nomination, he would indeed be
inept if he overlooked the I'M
animity in the Republican Party
and if he failed to maintain it
as President.
Furthermore, he is bound I
have a narrow margin in the
Senate during his first two years
in office and he will there
fore not antagonize any part Of
his party by producing a cabinet
Of cronies.
Dewey's success in New
York was not a one-man
job. This he has recognized and
state operation as a business
man would a vast undertaking,
delegating authority and II
sponsibility and giving public
acknowledgment of the fact
This characteristic is so much a
part of the mans nature that
he will undoubtedly so organ
ize the Federal Administration
A cabinet member will be 4 re-
sponsible official, not an under
. ling Of the presidential whim
No officer Of a Dewey Admin.
istration will be able to write
as Secretary of State Hull di,
that he was unfamiliar with
some of his responsibilities be.
cause the President acted with.
out consulting him.
Therefore, Mr.. Dewey will
have to have topnotch men ir
his Cabinet because only sucf
men will be able to exercise
authority and assume respons'
Utility. Some Of those mentioned
in the various guesses are no
such men and therefore wi
not be appointed. Some Of ths
guesses were inevitable because
of their past history on Dewey.