Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-04-07 | Page 35 | Hoover Would Upset Precedent Going from Cabinet Post to the White House

Hoover Would Upset Precedent Going From Cabinet Post to the White House Hous By RODNEY DUTCHER WASHINGTON YEA NKA I H A-H If If Herbert Her bert Hoover Hooyer should b bo he nominated without the open support of or President President President dent Coolidge and subsequently elected Ire ITC would be just about the first American so honored who ever eyer used A cabinet t post pest as hi his principal stepping ste stone to tie the White House I without having been elected to important im im- un- un public office orfice It Js 15 InterestIng Interesting Interest Interest- ing irig to note not that mo most meet members of ot the cabinet are hind behind Hoover but buto butof o of ot course there ther arc are no ni drawn lines among the government campaigns cam cam- branches IP in the The fact that Hoover who I took I over control of such vital new siew factors factors fac fee radio along tors as aviation a and with 11 Ms Iris many other duties has s done dono a good job as an executive and has met with less protest than most df of f the other secretaries is one ono factor of his present strength lIeIs lIe He Hes lieis Is s charged 1 with the work of moUng the commerce of the United States and it Its mining manufacturIng and transportation transportation Ing ng shipping fishery tation tallon inter interests ts and he has Je to that Job with considerable success That TI-at he has never been a senator or orI a governor or or a politician politician- l probably will not militate against him wi with the voters The point is II that no other cabinet I f fleer has been eon able to make mak himself president pre least leas o of all atia a secretary of commerce f is' is N arid and that Hoover racy may open up a ne new new- era or of things if it he ho makes the grade Hs Its Democratic opponent is likely to be a s senator nato or n n. governor governo Coolidge was a 3 governor gornor gov go own owing his first presidential job to Ilard- Ilard tags Ings death Harding was wa a sena sens- tor Wilson Wilsy was isas was governor of ot New ew Jersey Taft raft who was ator or governor stepped from flOm his job joh as secretary of war to the theu n House only through Roosevelt Roose u velt velt's s influence Roosevelt was a n awas governor burlea In the vice tresi- tresi elency only to be be- elevated ele by Mc- Mc Kinte assassination McKinie yes was governor of ot Ohio Benjamin Harrison risen was first a soldier and later a an Ohio senator Cleveland Cleveand was governor of New York Arthur was given ghen the vice pr presidential nom In a I. I political deal and would ha have been heen no nc more had bad not net Gar Garfield a a. soldier and a senator been shot na hayes e was wa governor of Ohio and Tilden io ho beat In all hut but the final fina count count was gO governor gOrnor of New York lork Andrew Am Grant l' l of Johnson T course wa a soldier an and had been governor of Tennessee Lincoln was a congressman con con- fl gressman n Buchanan chanan had been successively successively suc sue minister to Russia sena- sena tor or secretary of state and minister to England Englan l Pierce was senator and soldier n had bad been a n. congressman con con- gressman lessman a state official in New York and a pt Resident Taylor was a soldier eaker or of the I hoU house e on and senator sen- sen ator and so on b ton j ji S Y i