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Show I JULIUS KAHN H TALKED OF US 1 ID SECRETARY Mark Sull van Says Gossip L Gucs S?n Franc scan as rjH Cabinet Possibility CI GENERAL WOHQ I" SI DECLARbD UNFITTED HP JSJ So Is Pcrshinn When Dis- I' cussion Is Had of Import- ant Portfolio Hl iu M HIM National faXXU ftl I om -1 " ( f Tin- Sem York rening WASHINGTON. D. '.. Nov. . 1epe,utng what 1 wild npedoetlcall bbbbbI yesterday In dl-cursine pes atbUlUsn for secretary of atatr. nam- 1 that ill or this kind of discussion i of dubious f,r. r,, i. reeord wh" consuming a good deal of the of Itepuhllcan leaders, let us con MSI the men who are mentioned f-r i r. - tary of war. Gene-nil Leonard Wood Get, nil IM; -htng, Congressman Jullu Kahn . California and frnutor George Cham-berlaln Cham-berlaln of un ion, "t these. General Wood ! the tnOel obvious, he has fav-or fav-or of many Keputdivn leaders, ami that rather Important section r th ' partv which supported him lor the presidential nomination would tv ' i x- oslly gratified at " mI"'"11' -nil W 1 ha i . .?... . "" it v thRt Nfr. r.r fnagrr- Ins an almost exlcavogantlv loyal do- HJB who come In contact with rvm ' 1 7 N i o l I IfJ lG no In one of the vrrV small r.uni H ber of public men who . n lie descrlm ed M having a certain amount, of ue" H tlcmil folJowtnf. It cabinet ippolni- Wm mrnta wro to ho nuid .n th that thfy oTnrtlmtH have been with HH lh Idea of rrnirTiurvf tho loyaltx of fai-fion In thr part)'. Gcmral Wonrt r i i. not nf-cd ti connldt-r the placating f faction In making hU ah.n ! i mento, and aloo true that General Vnod frloiula do not n-d ti la. their claim for him on thin factoi alone HIh riuullflcatlonsi for the of-flrp of-flrp an- (il'vloii- 1. ii th- Mmr i':r-r-timatAnrca whlnh ()udllf him. ulo In tv dtBi'.i'ilir thr fart that .i man In e profvsxlnnal soldier n the mind of mato, mi objection to lux h"i. ecrtry of war. It Is rather an American tradition that the arm ihall be under thi- dlre lion of civilian. m i o ru fwirati m In some of the goralp that has been H ;t nt.oii of nt ral W o J eing la out on tho ground of a deal mad" b him by his leaders on bia bahalfi at thr Chicago convention wlib the in tho light of tn actual facta ihta Is absured end is anothtr example of Uu kind of tubtU propnennda not in-, frequent In the current gooelp about ; cabinet appointments, di jjr.t -I K m to advance a man than to Impair BUi chances. There may be iome around for tb theory that thv furas w-hicn non. ui. i it Hard ng a' i lii gu have reaaotut for beioa grut;ui to th hwitcinng of delegates during the dost- ballots tut if this is true. Gov ernor LoWdea la Uie only one of lh defeated i invMdato;-. for the l.erublt- Hl ran prealdcntlal nomination who can! be said to liuxe a claim on Harding' roi Lid la getting the nomination ..n-jpH ..n-jpH iiai Wood, aa .i matter of tact, wraa conspicuous In holding his delegates to! B' the end, B All the Republican leedtre agree Di.it after ih- tlard.ng nomination was LTsBBsll made, lieneral U uuj went of hl I way to Kive conJipK'uouR support to Harding and to induce his follower- to do the same. The net of all ihi discussion of the political aspects of General Wood's relation to the office of secretary of war is thru they mMtii er qualify nor disqualify hun. and are unfair, is much of the cabinet gossip. Is unfair, both to Mr. Harding and; the man discussed OBstBCTIl i I WOOD The objections made to General Wood by a four dtnong the Republican' i. idon conalat ctnefiy of iubi.s as toi nil teinpcrmcntal adaption to the kind; of teamwork that la necessary in cabinet. Genera Wood's career and ni: the distinctions he has earned have I beep chiefly In situations trhcfe ho hau sole control and sole responsibility This waa true ir Philllppidea, In Cuba.' and in the various army posts where he achieved his honors. Since wonder i Is ealreaaed whether this kind of one-: ii. an . xj-runCe H..V pon-ill have ,-t ' General Wood to be unadaptable to. lit Kind of friendly cooperation and work and to the taking Info ac-of ac-of political and personal con-lons con-lons which Republican leaders d as eaaenllal In the new cabinet dtted as proof for his arkumont , .i GoenU W ooil Is believed to I in . slat of feud with eonif of the higher ! (fleers, of the arm. and the existence v of this factional feeling la given aa an, addltloaal reason why the selection of ' General Wood might be laadvlanble A cabinet should be a happy familv ' i (GojagJnasBll n 1'ag Two.) a Julius Kahn Talked of as War Secretary' (Continued From Page One.) and the higher offieers of (he army notoriously do not compose a happy tamll v r I . HINDRANCE TN POI4TN s rhe truth Is. these very qualities of decision and the habit of authority which make General Wood one of the Outstanding personalities of contemporary contem-porary of American life, and cause so many to admire him devotedly have been a detriment to his suee.-ss in the neid of pontics Incidentals there s some reason for saying that the trustees ot two large universities are consider!, whether they would en largo General Wood as a national as-net as-net and take advantage or his ca, mi In Mi "lf4Plr,VP ??Un rnf". E making him a university president Muc h that has been said abo'ui Ge,,., era Wood inplie. aUo to General! i i rshlng The traditional objection to1 putting an officer ,,t tno ofn,l War department applies to htm.and also: y'o,. rTe 'n 'VV hlr PPoln t men t "f" " r " "r nslft f. uda already existing among hlgrli army offieers. Some Republican leaders doubt whether wheth-er General Pershing would care for the offic l-'rom youth up hi experience ex-perience has hern that of an army of-flrer of-flrer only-, with un army officer's pir-rn,.l pir-rn,.l authority ami personal responsibility- Whether he would caro to exchange ex-change this or would be successful in an attenip' 1 1 1 exchange thla tor the greater give-and-take of a position that in sii drcuraetancaa must have som polities I aspects, may reasonably be doubtcl Any army officer, conalder-1ns; conalder-1ns; General I'ershlriss situation would smy that It would be foolish for him tn exehongc what he now has for a four years tenure Hs secretary of war. and that the thing which General Per-1 Ding might be expected most to desire would be ihe opportunity to continue I te be In fact what be In in nnme, the1 milltsrv head of the Amori- in army. ' congri seam w k m Next to General Wood and General Pershing, the man most frequently j mentioned in connection with the warl 'lTsrtmcnt is 'onjeressman .lullusl Kahn of California. The reason lies in the fact that Congressman Kahn is halrmnn of the house committee on military affairs, and as such has a jbody of information and experiences which I not duplicated by probably am other Republican On geojrraphl-Ical geojrraphl-Ical groundfl n In pointed out that th-j'acific th-j'acific coast ouuht to h0 recognized iand that Mr. Knhn has proved his popularity there. In the recent elec-i tlon he had both the Republican and' td I'-mocratle nominations. Qn the same geographical grounds, however, it Is pointed out, that Con-! gressman Xolan, also of California, Is j b.-lng urged for and discussed as a cab. Inct possibility, comes from California as well. The truth m. however, thut, goographlcal grounds do not need to i have much weiKht either for or against, any man. When a president Is backed , by an overwhelming majority. In asi many sections of the countiy ,-ls yena-,' tor Harding has, be does not need to I consider the gedyraphlcal distribution of bis cabinet. The mention of Senator George (.'hamberlaln of Oregon rests chiefly Ion the theory that Senator Harding may ysh to appoint at least one 'Democrat In his cabinet. Mr. Chamberlain Cham-berlain is the present senior senator iroin Oregon He yy.n defeated In the recent election by a bare three or four thousand Votea, although Harding car. ried the strtte by an unprecedented ma-porlty. ma-porlty. Senator Chamberlain had tens of thousands of Republican voles, and his popularity among the Republican voters vot-ers of 'regon Is not less than the friendliness held for him by Republican Republi-can leaders' In Washington If the theory that Senutor Harding may wish to appoint B Democrat has an existence, exis-tence, in fact, there Is probably no Democrat whose appointment would be more appreciable to so many Republican Republi-can leaders. The equipment of ex-, porience Which suggests Senator' Chamberlaip for the, particular office' of pecretary of wur lies in the fact that he was. for the many cars of Democratic control In the senate.! chairman of the senate committee on e. the war, and the fed that as ehalrnan kffl of the rommlftee. he was w i ii.w . fl incur the di.pl.aaur; Vhta 2jr H ,:! tl ndut . of ti M War by President Wllaon and Secretlr HI Haker. helped to create tho f, v fS whteh he is i,eid bv B&flSaSftyC B i Ni l u vti: QOSfflP I M be repeate.l and cmphasired B" hat what is said here is no more,,", K H'e net of the intimate gossm Df 9 publican leaders. it has m , , , ,Ve" Hi whatever to what may b. Jfin? o, I'" 9 Benator Hardinr. mind The '" B secretary of :ir ' ' ,n ' 1 ne, ni aonie on'e e?i as anv of thU7' 2? j 9 are put forward bacaii.?foUmwho JM careen which have hap p 'red ffift" 4 them into cont ict f,K ,0 brl"K" i t affalra tl la certoin 7u h m"' v 'yl fore Senator iJardiL- ,h"" ,t,J ,J"" 1 of having- n eXDerl2f . udlrirab,HU ' W |