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Show iRK SULLIVAM GIVES GOSSIP I ABOUTCABINET Foes of League Oppose Naming Nam-ing of Root for Secretary of State KNOX FAVORED BUT HEALTH IS FAILING Farsighted Think David Jayne( Hill is Loqical Man: Utahn j Mentioned B M Mtk 5ULLTV IN, special Political Correspondent of The ow ork renlng Pool WASHINGTON. Nov. 29. Discus- slon of cabinet possibilities Is ente: I upon with some distaste. The cabinet! in a matter so completely within Mr. Harding'! control that nothing authoritative au-thoritative can posslldy be said with! out ft KllC.Wieage i nis rainu. ami a knowledge of his mind Is exactly what nohody is authorized to convex. It is true, of course, that caldnet appointments, like all others are subject sub-ject to at Wast perfunctory confirmation confirma-tion by the senate. To that extent It if legitimate for senators to discuss (the possibilities, and for newspapers I to report what senators say on the J subject- It is also true that Repub-I Repub-I llcan leaders have the interest In cabinet cab-inet appointments which goes with their responsibilities as party leaders, lead-ers, but this, also, is an extremely tenuous excuse for attaching great w lh: to what partv leaders sav and U el. GOSSIP SUM MED l P Ncverthaleaa, the tact is that Re publican senators and Republican par-t par-t leaders do discuss cabinet possl-b possl-b til tics more -'than almost anything else. To u good .'ea! of thin discussion I have listened, and what is here set down Is confined exclusively to what Is said by there senators ami leadore, nothing that is known to be or gueeui I to be in Senator Harding's mind is here Included Subject to these limitations, limi-tations, let us consider the office of secretary of state. A fairly complete list of the men who are mentioned In this connection J would include I h' following- Elihu Root. Benatqa Knox. David jjync iiiii, i naries t,. Jiugnes. ex-Sonator ex-Sonator George Sutherland of Utah, j ;eorgo Wharton Pepper of Phlla-i Phlla-i delphia, Senator Lodge, and Senator Pall. Of this group, the first three, Messrs Root. Knox anu Hill, are in I a class apart. Always bearing in mind that nobody knows what may bo the governing considerations in Senator Harding's mind, these three are un- dpUhtedly to the front In the dlscus- sionr. of party leaders and senators. KOOl itl SI l l li i o Of these three, Senator Root is con-: con-: ceded by everybody, including those j who are working against him. to have the largest equipment of experience. It is true that Senator Knox matches him in the fact that he, like Mr. Root, has already filled a term as secretary of state. But apart from the fact that both men hae already held the ofiic-e, it Mill remains true, that Mr. Root has had very much the greater experience in International affairs. Especially han Mr Root had experience experi-ence In what Is. or ought to be. the chief duty of tho next secretary of state the business of bringing about International relations looking toward to-ward the maintenance of piace and the reduction of armaments. In this field of the arbitration and adjudlea-: adjudlea-: tlon of international disputes Mr j Loot has been for more than twentv years the foremost figure in the United I States and probably in tho world. As everybody knows, the Institution for preserving peace which Mr. Root has long worked to bring about differs markedly from tho league of nations In form, although Identical with It In purpose. tHUIXTKiN- Ti ROOT. The objections put forward by these who are avowedl doing what thev can to prevent the choice of Mr. Root are two. One. when expressed in private pri-vate conversation, is entirelv frank. , It comes from the more determined opponents of the league of nations, rrom tho extreme "lrreconcllables." rhev say that Mr Root has rocentlv been too clos to the league of nations: na-tions: that he has, in fact, within the last six months acted as an agent of, the league of nations, and that this fact would dinquaMfy him as secretary 0t slate from acting as strongly as1 - Z "lrreconcllables' want thai LT.u t0 ,lct " tha dealings! with th, league of nations that thel m ''.ill ' . . i. n ore noiti out. t hev jJon t want a Sr(tnrv of ,.,. wno ,g Vym pathetic to the eae:ile or to the pur- of -he league; they want a sec retarj of etate to put in baldly, wh.. will do what he can to kill th league , V?e . ADJ"on put forward .i u ?l 'S ,hai hr- ta ,0 old This Fvfi , 18 vl bft5wl on sood faith. SbTSrVyoirh? ha9 h4 ajiv contact, with Mr. Root recently know, that.! w "? hownfc' 'he Impairment of, SKJ? "? "aordlnarlly Kood con-' dltlon Phy-sleaiiy and mtellootually. FRIENDLY to KNOX. letinn , ih"'" who mak' objection ob-jection to senator Root say in the next breath that Knox woo d Ce an 'd Jwe retftry of state. Uut persons fc! ha,rt. conUrt With boih m. n know that Knox. ,lt sixty-eight i" lye" a?0',rt a Tn Root -event -, M t, l Cl.lCnnior K" Ls known ovn th haV'Jh bMt of bJth, and iv en thos- who would ardentlv prefer Knox because of his opposition th I The troth IS. this objection to Root I m nntinned Prom Pag.- i i i Mark Sullivan Gives i Gossip About Cabinet ( Continued Fsom Page Ow i 1 is not put forward in good faith. It comes from the same leaders who object ob-ject to Mr. Root because of his suspected sus-pected sympathy with preserving the I league with modifications. A third thing frequently said In these discussions Is that Mr. Root j doesn't want the post nor wouldn't I take It. This also is unfriendly pro-l pro-l pagunda, camoufl ik as solicitude ' for Mr. Hoot s Coriifort and desire, j It Is true thai Mr. Hoot needs no . further public hi nors to make his ca-I ca-I reer exceptionally new In them. It J Is also true that when Mr. Root quit public affairs in Washington a few j years ago one of the governing fai -i tors was his wife's disinclination for some aspects of public life. Never- ihelessi It m n h.-inllv lio nrimimil th:.t j Mr Hoot would step aside from the I opportunity to put the finishing tout It on the work of twenty years in behalf of world peace, If that opportunity were presented to him in the right way Hil l, IS MENTIONED While Senator Knox is most frequently fre-quently mentioned as the choice of those who want a secretary of statu who will be aggressively anti-league It Feem3 to rne. in talking with these leaders, that the more substantial and far-seeing ones talk a little more about Ua Id Jaym- mil than about Senator Knox I'avld Jayne Hill seems to be equally equal-ly as acceptable as Senator Knox to those who want a secretary of stat' with strongly American nationalistic view toward the league of nations, and han some advantages over Knox. One of these advantages is, tin l have already said, that there Is BOUM question about Senator Knox's health.' while there Is none about Mr. Hill's, j also Knox is now a member of th ( senate, and his term does not expln for two years. It is held to be undesirable un-desirable to take so strong member ! out of the senate, or In anv way I" ' disturb the present Republican strength of leadership within that I body, if an equally acceptable man I can be found outside tho senate HILL CAPABLE M. T. . , I . . . 1 u l i " niup ,inu experience, Air Hill Is almost the equal of Mr Root ; while he never was secretary of staU i he did serve as assistant secretary un-I un-I der Mr. Root himself In foreign ex-' ex-' perience Mr Hill excels Mr. Root. He has been minister to Switzerland, to Holland, and to Qermanv, and ho I participated, like Mr Root, in sorm of the peace, conferences at The I Hague There Is not room here to speak at ! any f length Of the other suggestions J also, let It be repeated and empha-Blsad empha-Blsad that what Is eald here s merely the net, so to speak,' of the gossip Of Republican senators and leaders and , has no relation to what may be In 1 Mr Harding's mind. Mr Harding necessarllv will take into account . onsideratlon of the per- i sonal relation to him. considerations of tempeiamental capacity for bar- I monious teamwork on the part of Individual In-dividual cabinet members, and other considerations that do not figure In the loss responsible discussions of the party loaders. I (Copyright. 1920. by The N'Cw York Evening Post. Inc.) 1 |