Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1920 — “A CABINET OF CHANGES” [ARTICLE]

“A CABINET OF CHANGES”

“A cabinet of sneers our young friend Harvey's Weekly apropos of the prospective retirement of Franklin K. Lane, and “there is still time for several more changes.” How differently things were ordered in those dear Roosevelt days! Wilson has had two secretaries of state and Roosevelt had only three, comments the New York World in a recent editorial. Wilson has had one secretary of the navy ana Roosevelt had only six. Wilson has had one secretary of the interior and Roosevelt had only two. Wilson has had two secretaaries of war and Roosevelt had only three. Wilson has had one postmaster general and Roosevelt had only five. Wilson has had as many attorneys general as Roosevelt, and two secretaries of the treasury to Roosevelt’s three. During the Roosevelt administration there were nine departments of government and 29 more or less distinguished statesmen wandered in and out of the cabinet, and only one of them managed to survive both of the Roosevelt administrations. But it is the Wilson cabinet, of course, that is “a Cabinet of changes.”