APPOINTMENTS 'ALA JACKSON' UNDER HOOVER
APPOINTMENTS 'ALA JACKSON' UNDER HOOVER Appointments of Hoov«9P Made on Basis of Spoils to the Victor (Special to The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C — President Hoover has definitely thrown...
...Sackett's appointment is regarded as a purely political move to remedy the situation in Kentucky where it was feared his coming senatorial campaign threatened a split in the state Republican organization...
...Senator Edge was previous to his appointment facing a hopeless fight for re-election in his own state, and has always been close to the political spoilsmen of the Old Guard Republican organization...
...He was believed to have an earnest desire to improve our diplomatic service, and appointments of experienced and able men were expected...
...Campaign statements and early actions of President Hoover led Washington observers and the nation to believe that the diplomatic service, at least, would not be emasculated by political appointees...
...Dawes possessed scarcely any better qualifications for the responsible post of foreign ambassador, and has already embarrassed the administration by his lack of ability in handling displomatic affairs with Great Britain...
...Instead, however, the country has been surprised by the appointment of such men as Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey to the diplomatic position of ambassador to France, and of Charles G. Dawes as ambassador to France...
...His wide travels abroad were thought to have convinced him that men trained in languages, history, economics, law, and diplomacy, rather than weathly ex-manufacturers, fa-bankers, and ex-meat packers with social aims and ambitious wives, were best fitted to represent the United States abroad...
...The President consistently declines to justify or defend such appointments against adverse criticism, and continues to vlolafc the pledges of the "business administration" promised during the last catj-palgn...
...This prostitution of the diplomatic service to political ends marks the breaking of a Hoover campaign promise that opponents of the administration would have conceded.was the moi likely of being fulfilled...
...Hoover, it is held, took advantage of the diplomatic opening as a means of getting Sackett out of the political struggle In Kentucky...
...That is the opinion that seemr'W prevail In local circles and which has been intensified by the recent announcement of the appointment of Senator Frederic M. Sackett, of Kentucky, millionaire Republican machine politician, to the important post of United States ambassador to Germany...
...APPOINTMENTS 'ALA JACKSON' UNDER HOOVER Appointments of Hoov«9P Made on Basis of Spoils to the Victor (Special to The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C — President Hoover has definitely thrown overboard his widely heralded principle of granting appointments on the basis of merit and ability and fs indulging In the veriest political spoils system as readily as would its famous originator, Andrew Jackson, if he were alive today...
Vol. 1 • January 1930 • No. 8
