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Show G. G. P, CHIEFS ! STRIVE 10 CEI mcpniFF Mark Sullivan Snys Leaders Want It and Want It Quickly HARDING WILL LEARN THAT VIEWS CONFLICT ' President-elect Advised Not to Consult With Friends on Men for Cabinet BY MARK SULLIVAN (National politicni correspondent of the New York Evening Tost, and Or j den Standard-Kxaniinor ) WASHINTON, Dec. 6 In Ihe dl-' IcUBBlons that will short h brcin al I Marion. Ohio, botwrm Senator Hard-ling Hard-ling and the leaderr, of political though; .summoned there lo take counsel wt, the president -elect n th domestic and foreign policies lacing the next na-jiinnnl na-jiinnnl administration, the tariff, Oi I COUrge, will be very much to the front. Oil thin Ml hind the mnlnrllv nf th.. Republican lenders take the old fash jioned pnrty view. They want a high tariff, ami they want ii er hlch and Vgry quick, there is even talk of an embargo on some farm products like wheat and wool. QUESTION POLICY. There ran be no question that th ' opinion among the republican leaders is in favor of high tariff Btfl thei i? a t mailer number of Republican j leaders and they are the more BtU-. BtU-. dious ones who believe that the i IhuM.s of the war have put the United I Slates into a dlflormi relation to the! world. They question whether a tar I iff policy which wa.s adapted lo con-; dltlona preceding 1914 in possible or I : desirable now. The old fashiontd protectionists are j unwilling to even inquire whether anything any-thing has happened to affect merb-an tariff policies sinep 1911 The more .thoughtful leaders say it must be conceded con-ceded that something has happened and thai a good deal of study of just what has happened and it more- intn catc hearings on our economic life is necessary before an intelligent tariff t policy can be laid down tor the fu I ture. The fad that the I'nited States has ! become an exporter of goods to an j enormously grea'cr degree than be- fore and has become an exporter of , money where before it was wholly an Importer of money must necessarily suggest some change from pr conditions as to what Is now desirable In the fhid of tariffs. No one knows whether Senator i Hording is going to ask his callers foi ! advice about his cabinet appoint' ment-lf ment-lf biB luid .'iti n Mirc-h ih. exper ii nf c that almost any newspaperman has had during the past few weeks, he would probably avoid advice and make l his appointments nut nf his own head. In the discussions that have taken place privately and puhllrh. a good many prejudices have arisen, a good man coramitmentb have been made, a good deal of partisanship has been Created for some men and a good deal I of Opposition to others. MANY CONTRADICTIONS If Senator Harding ataxia lo tak-any tak-any large measure of advice from bis various callers, he will find himself the center of a maze of contradictions There will be those who will eel him that Senator Hoot is the onh man for secretary of slate, and others who will tell him thai Senator Rool would 'be the greatest of all possible rnis-taket, rnis-taket, there will be Iho-o who will tell him that Senator Root is the best equipped mnn In America for foreign affalrfi and others who will tell hini thai If he takes Senator Root in the cabinet the ,-erietary of state will outshine out-shine the president, much as Jams G. Blaln overshadowed Pre: idenl Harrison. This argument, by the way, (will probably have little effect on Sen lator Hardiug, for those who have the Ibifheal hopes of him really believe ! thai Senator Harding has some of Lin-j Lin-j coin's capacity for getting the best even om of men who differ with him I as much as Stanton differed with Lin coin. As regard! the secretary of war. 'there will be those who Will tell Hard ling thai failure to make General Wood I secretory of war will create disaffection disaffec-tion In a large faction of the R pub I Heap party, and others who will tell i him that the appointment of General Wood will create equully seriou-; disaffection disaf-fection among high officers of tho army. STRONG FOR HOOVER. There will be those who will tell him that -Mr. Hoover must be Liken inlo the cabinet because of his admit ted ability and his public following, and others who will tell him that Mr. Hoover Is too closely identified with advocacy of the league of nations to be satisfactory to those who composed the Republican majority in ths r election. It has always seemed to me unfortunate and uniair to everybody concerned that all this discussing and burtuldng should hao taken place Senator Harding is entitled to name bit own cabinet and stand or fall by it. In appointing the cabinet, there would -Been Lo be from Mr. Harding's point of view, two possible lines ol policy j One would be to n unc .1 cabinet ol I distinguished men already well know n 1 to the public and commanding the pub-jllc pub-jllc respect a cabinet which would be rerelved by the public with the feel I Ing that here Is a group of men well i known to be able and experienced ; ppointxnentfl which would at the outset out-set enlarge and oryatallze ihe favorable favor-able attitude the public now has toward to-ward the incoming administration. This policy, however apparent its ad vantages, has also Its detects. Ten men selected wholly on the basis ot thi i individual ability and their individual indi-vidual standing wlih the public mighi or might not make a good team The other policy would be for Mr. Harding 10 consider that his administration admin-istration Is 10 be Judged not by its beginning be-ginning but by lis ending. This police pol-ice would U ad him tb appoint a croup of younger men, less well known tb' the public, perhaps, but known to him ; ii have not only individual r ipii, n for their various posts, but to have also the capacity for team work. J among themselves and for grow th in ihe public estimation I |