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Show CABINET PLACES CAUSEJISPUTES Progressives Are Angered by Seeming Neglect of Their Leaders Dj M MR M I I l KsttoiMl Political Cprresponden I of ihr Xph York Fcnln: Posl. WASHINGTON, J;n 20. -Somf of; I the mor.- rocent vUiltors to Mnrlon' have riven exprraelon to an 1111111-' I truculent '''ciinir tist In th tent.,M. cahlnt lates Senator Hardlna- .1- (not BhOW x much ronMdera tlon for jth I'ropresHlvn factor as he did In i' 'eanip.iirn N'oi.p of the iv or men now accepted aa final were liln. tlflad with the I'i 'in i ss e party. Tl I weakness of tlie Progressives l 1 11 1 they are not unlt.-l If the Prog n alvea could as;ree n a lint of rand I ituteM for the Oablnsl they could Ull-IdOUbtadly Ull-IdOUbtadly Ret one, two or three poai I But the lineup which the Profrea laive held five to eight yeara aa;o oti j domestli- prorreaHiv i.u m Iium In ti .cut across at right unglea. and other-j Iwiac thrown into )iaoN b) late Ismies j dialing With forelrn relation- Th' twP senators who were officially Anj nected with the rrogreselve party. Johnson of California, and McCornttcl of Illinois an Just now preoccupied 'not with 1 he ll Progressive I -I but with Implacable opposition to the. league of nation ox am variations of J It. IIki EH l Uil I in the other hand. :l huge nuinber ..1 the rank and fUe thul were thej backbone Of the Progressive party, thi 1 , college communities and the clas.s that , poltticlana call the t'hurc h people," I earnestly favor the leamie. The grea' bulk of these people tTQUld rej:iril Hoover In the cabinet an representative representa-tive of their vlesjra Harding would j j like to put Hoover In his cabinet, but I Johnson, the senator from Hoover'sl state, would regnri. that appointment I 111. a personal affront. And even if llardliiK were willing, to disregard the prejudices of the powerful senator from Hoover's own slate, there are large numbers Of tn-: tn-: mers from thOBt Western stales who h were the backbone of tin Progressive parly who hltterlv oppose Hoover be-1 cause Of what thCy take as unfal;'1 I treatment of their interests by Hoov- ler'a food admlnlstnatlon, For example, exam-ple, Henry C. Wallace, the Dc Moines I Farm paper editor, who Is practically i certain to be in the cabinet himself has been sharply critical of Hoover j in his paper. N I . OPPOSITION I Another appoint n.eni which would bt acceptable to large number ofl Progressives Is General Wood. but I again. Senator Johnson who ran fori vice president on the Progressive tlck-j C with Koos'-velt f,,i president r--I scnts General Wood's attempj laai pring to capture the presidential' nomination on the theor that he wai The It lie heir to Koos.M'll. a powerful group of Progressiva l nders have wanted Koot for Secretary Secre-tary of slate, hut the two senator.-:. Johnson and McCownlck, would regard re-gard that appoint merit as anathema. These two senators, based on tholr present position on foreign relations would like Knox for secretary of state. 1 l!li..)i"li it. til.. 11I. I I'r.iiMi ch lirte- iiip mi .I'.i. .-ii mini.- Issues, Knox ; was of 1 he Innei circle of standpatters. standpat-ters. PROGRESS!! E SPtlT In these and other ways the old 1 Progressive leadership ia ho torn to j pieces that it Isn't easy for Harding to satisfy them however he would Ike to. I Nevertheless, a prcalling i"old guard" cablne' Is going to cause a goorl deal of discontent ulid it Is is certain "" futire ihlng tun in-'that in-'that there will ar'SS In the west tin- coming juu a sepPmeni Of discontent so gtrqng thai 11 w:l mt'iiace the parts par-ts in power as much as the old Pro i gressl pat ( y did- I Senator Harding's way of going about his cabinet making has, among 1 Its advantages Hie disadvantage of I causing Just this kind of factional pro I test to arise Not only are the old 1 Progressives active bul many otHprl igroups as well. Strong represenftv-1 jtlmis 1 1 . i i been made that the south; should be given an appointment, that the Pacific coast should be given ono. and that the Democrats should in giv-j en one. Some of the advueacy behind i certain nainea rests on the theory that the cabinet should Include n Jew. Harding has in en sU'origly urged to Lappoint some one who i a CatholtCj the urging coming frOJW part) leaders ( v. tin are not themselves Catholics i Their argument i based on the par- I t )oli"N OllSH VTHOJLIC VOTK. After the election. It turned out "at not onlj did the Irish '' .i holies ltd for Harding but also in Ni w !rk City and elsewhere quite gener-jr. gener-jr. registered us Republicans, which it rnoii --ignif ii .: ni ihingthan ir.ere- voting for Ha riling The Repub-iin Repub-iin Strategists s::v tills means the ah Oatholirs. aftej iialt a century anchor In the DemocratU parly. h.ae determined to try the Republicans Republi-cans LWhlle, uml thai urge that Harding Hard-ing should give them a iign of welcome wel-come by putting one of ihoni In the cabinet. If Harding should decide to follow thlo advice, the field In which it would he moat easy to find a man who la first t.f all a leader in his life apd also uii Irish Catholic, would be in the selection of a secretary of labor (larding bj now lms got all the benefit- to he bud from this sort of wide? spread discussion cf trial balloons for di" cabinet) and has experienced sbme unexpected embarrassments thai at-U at-U ml it. The (rouble with it is lb.it the dis-QUSSlon dis-QUSSlon provokes lays emphasis not Oil ablit. but on uvail.jllll . potential poten-tial names are discussed In terms of expediency si urn s n i mi NTS Kroin now pn, Harding may hi e -pi led tO tend low. nil the practices of his predecessors In cabins! making He has said that h' would follow the advice Of those who claim be should announce the siatt and treasury appointees ap-pointees early, but Wis balance of the announcement will probably be r sir.-d until March thi There may he one tir two surprises in the final list. In connection with Wilson's cab-Inet-maUing these io Incidents happened: hap-pened: n .March th two leading citizens cit-izens of St Louis, David it Francis, and Franklin l.ani. rode together to Washington and gossiped about poll-tics poll-tics on the way. The next day. Man b T.. Mr. Francis read the nunie of Mr Houston in the newly announced cabinet, cab-inet, that was the first that Mr I'ran-ci I'ran-ci or other outsider knew about It, and two weeks before l-'rankllu Line actually sat in Wilson's sablnel the two men hail never met (Copyright, l;:i i tiu- x. w b-.rK y. eniiip rost, inc. |