Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1913 — W. J. BRYAN WILL BE SECRETARY OF STATE [ARTICLE]

W. J. BRYAN WILL BE SECRETARY OF STATE

Names of Other Members of Wilson's Official Family Confirmed After Much Guessing. .... . ’ .. ■ ' ■ Washington, Feb. 26.—The'cabinet situation was not materially altered today from the definiteness it assumed last night The developments of the day served only to confirm the finality of the selections of Messrs. Bryan, McAdoo, Daniels and Burleson and to disclose the various steps by which other names gradually had been.eliminated from consideration.

It developed also that Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania, had been offered and had rejected the war portfolio. Another definite offer of a cabinet portfolio disclosed was that to Mayor Baker, of Cleveland, which also was declined because of public interests Mr. Baker has at Cleveland. It also was reported that Edgar H. Farrar, of New Orleans, former president of the American Bar association, was being considered in connection with the attorney generalship. A report tonight is that James Mcßeynolds, of New York, is foremost in consideration for the attoi-ney-generalship by President-elect Wilson. ' . *

Though a democrat, Mr. Mcßeynolds was engaged to prosecute the government’s suit against the tobacco trust, and had direction of that case from the beginning until the dissolution of the American Tobacco company. He is a native of Kentucky, a graduate of the law department of the University of Virginia, and practiced law for many years in Nashville, Tenn. He located in New York in 1907.