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Show WALLACE DUE FOB PORTFOLIO, ! SULLIVAN SAYS 1 Editor of Farm Journal Seems Harclincfs Choice for Agriculture PACKERS SAID TO BE OPPOSED TO SELECTION Des Moines Man Said to Have Given Harding Campaign Cam-paign Facts BY MARK Sl l.l.n . 1 Washington .inn. 13. The most 1 dependable judgment i that Senator 1 Harding will tlek to his determlna-I determlna-I Hon to make Henry J. AVallaci ,,i l i Moines, editor of NVnllace'y Farmer, secretary of agriculture. The opposi-1 opposi-1 tlon to Wallace, which has been Increasing In-creasing for some weeks, is just now I at its height From now on thO efforts j of the arouned Slfppbrtefs of Wallace I may be expected 1 count. The reply now to allegations is that ! it is'onlv those livestock men who OB- 1 rate In a big way, or who are close lo the packers, that oppose WaJ.Ul.ce,' 1 This Is the allegation of Wallace Bup-I Bup-I porters. I don't kjiow enough about ' it lo be certain of the merits of It. ! Not all the packers are opposing Wal-j Wal-j lace, one group of them takes the lew that In the past their efforts to affect public matters have reacted I badly and they now follow a policy I of careful avoidance of it. I V t)Rv ivI.NYt . I'.II.r. The focus of most of this' talk lies 1 in the tan that there Is now pending jn congreSf a bill, fatheit-d b S-tiat-n Kenyon, of WaliaceJs home state, fot I the regulation of the packing Industry. Indus-try. On this bill Mr. Wallace has taken a position of qualified advocaey A few sentences from a recent utter-in- e of his paper will throw light on his position. "While there are some provisions in the Kenyon bill which may seem to be rather drastic and Wnlle some stock men are particularly fearful of the proposal to place such great power jn the hands of the MecTO tary of agriculture, we do not think there Is any danger that legislation will be enacted which will cripple the packers, provided it is enacted soon. -,lt is astonishing to us that the packers Themselves do not t;cc this. They have been under fir,, for thirty years past, and the fire has been getting get-ting hotter all the time, they can expect ex-pect nothing less than that it will Continue to get hotter until remedial legislation Is enacted, and we should think they would bi clad to accept a fair bill which will give the government govern-ment some supervision over their operation." op-eration." HE si Wits MII Y. This utterance gives a key to Mr. Wallace's point of view und temper. On public questions be si f udway between the radicals and the conservatives: conserv-atives: on the one ban. I. he advocates reasonable control of the packing industry' in-dustry' on tho other hand he fights the radical nonpartisan league mosi strenuously. stren-uously. The ch'.ef man whom the opposition op-position to 'Wallace has put forward is another resident of Iowa. Charles V. Curtlss, dean of the Iowa Agi lei tural college, and head of various live sleek associations. Between these two rowans I know that Wallace has the support of both the senators from Iowa, and I am told he has the support sup-port of every one of the eleven l. i members of ruliKfi.'s. About the only other roan seriously mentioned toy secretary of agriculture Is Governor Lowden of llilnol:'. There is not mm h to that suggestion, Senator Harding himself ha- i fe !i:ig about Wallaee that iH strong enough to resist a good deal of opposition. During the campaign cam-paign Harding repeatedly- sent for Wallace and hi the Igyiug down of n.i t tonal policies about agriculture in his campaign speeches consulted Wallace more than any other man. It is likely that Harding, in his own mind picked Wallace earlier and more definitely than any other member of his cabinet. cabi-net. HONKST SCOTCHMAN. The feeding about W allace held by men who know him is indicated by the fact that whenever they describe hint they always include the terms "Scotchman" that ho Is "an unemotional unemo-tional Scotchman" or a "sure-footed Scotchman." or an honest Scotchman or a safe and dependable Scotchman, Some times when they mean to emphasize em-phasize certain strong qualities In him they describe him as "a red headed Scotchman." They all speak of him as being of the highest character, of having an i , nl limed oil Page TWO. Wallace Due fof Portfolio.. Sullivan Says 1 1 ontliittcd From tagc bit I integrity that is mathematical and of having to a high degree the administrative adminis-trative ability that the office of secretary sec-retary of agriculture demands. Wallace appears to be a. man who takes a definite position on public questions and sticks to it firmly. In the course of taking positions on public pub-lic affairs within the pail few years. Mr. Wallace has opposed Hoover ori the ground that the iatler as food controller con-troller In his relations with the farmers farm-ers was not always wise, according to Mr. Wallace's view, and most deplorable deplora-ble Of all to Ti m., i, r vi- .. temperament was. as he thought inconsistent in-consistent and vacillating. incident-1 iu. it has no connection with this Sf Vriii! faCt ,hat the "Kelihood Of Hoover being in the cabinet seems S little less certain now than It w is :s..mc weeks ago. The opposition o Hooker baa been most strenuous , getting its views before Harding ' There has come to be. bv the wa a good deal of discussion among unrty leaders and others about this nu l'P.?u n,i1n, 08 cabinet poaslbilUles and then letting everybody take u .shot at them who feels liko it. It I. 'd n.ltted that it may have .he m,.rit ui bringing out everything that can bo said about a man. but I here are olhor Point, of view from whkh It is agreeable to ,he men Concarned Copyright IM1. by the NewUy0rk Kvenlng Pont, Inc |