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Show j Exit Long, Enter Moody. ON MAY 1 Representative William H. Moody, of Massachusetts will succeed John D. Long as secretary secre-tary of the navy. New England will retain the cabinet office it has had s'nee President McKinley was inaugurated. inaug-urated. So long as the tradition endures en-dures that the selection of cabinet officers of-ficers must be governed, to some extent, ex-tent, by geographical considerations, New England clearly is entitled to one of these cabinet offices. That part of the country does not have the monopoly monop-oly of the shipping interests it had a century ago, but the fitness of things, seemingly, is consulted when a ecretary of the navy is taken from Massachusetts Massachu-setts instead of Illinois, Indiana or West Virginia. The choice which President Roosevelt j has made of a new secretary is a good one, not so much because Mr. Moody I comes from Massachusetts as because he is well qualified for the performance J of the duties of his new office. He entered en-tered the house nearly seven years ago and has been from the beginning one of Its efficient members. He has not served on the committee on naval affairs, af-fairs, but he has been one of the working work-ing members of the committee on appropriations, ap-propriations, where one learns much of the management of all the executive departments. The legislative training which Mr iVTnnrlv. Y,oa Ur,,t ...111 I.- . . . ao Jltiu iu uc oi vaiue to nir in his new position. Of more vaiue, however, will be his judicial, well-balanced, temperate habit of mind. The affairs of the navy department will be administered justly and without pretence pret-ence by him. And this could not be said for Long. j |