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Show Death Grapple p,.,.,.) T eminent Republicans in his Cabinet Cabi-net in this emergency have cited the changes in the British and French governments since the present war began. They overlook the fact that those are Parliamentary Parlia-mentary governments, in which the constituent assembly has supreme su-preme power and the governing body or Cabinet is chosen from among the members of Parliament. Parlia-ment. Thus two or half a dozen parties may be represented in a coalition cabinet. But under the American system sys-tem the Executive is entirely distinct dis-tinct from congress, and the members mem-bers of his Cabinet are his personal per-sonal appointees, a sort of superior super-ior chief clerks, whom he can dismiss dis-miss at will. They must be completely com-pletely subordinate to the President. Presi-dent. Emphatically Rejected , . . Therefore, the President's idea of putting a few leading Republicans Repub-licans in his Cabinet to emphasize the non-partisan spirit of the times has been emphatically rejected. re-jected. Rumor has it that he offered of-fered Col. Frank Knox, Republican Republi-can vice-presidential candidate of four years ago, the post of Secretary Secre-tary of the Navy, just vacated by Charles Edison, who is running for governor of 'New Jersey. It is whispered, and widely believed be-lieved in" Washington, that Mr. Roosevelt's invitation to Gov. Lan-don Lan-don to visit him at the White house was with a similar purpose; that it was cancelled when Mr. Landon made a speech criticizing the President's war policies, and renewed only when word leaked out that it had been cancelled. At any rate, Mr. Landon, as titular leader of the Republican party, after a pleasant call ut! White House, said that he n sure all Republicans would t-good t-good patriots and do whim, they could to help the defc program, and let it go at tint Much attention is being tre here to former President Hp ver's letter to Senator Tobr written last September when H war started and the first tall: a "coalition government" desk After pointing out that menta of the opposition party il appoii: ed to the Cabinet would not in ii way be representatives of tl;: party, but merely individuals. !t Hoover said that the pro;: suspension of partisan pol i "would mean one-party gotai i ment. It would be the start oil: ' talitarian government." i |
