Life — September 28, 1928 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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OUR CANDIDATE STARTS HIS CABINET “Every Rich Man Now Pictures Himself as Another Mellon” I aren a giving a mighty lot of thought lately to my Cabinet. In fact I think all three of us Candidates have, Because you can’t hardly get a man to promise to do anything for you with- out offering him a Cabinet position. Now take that fellow Work, he is mak- ing up the boquets for Hoover to throw, and you can’t tell me that ain’t in line to better his position, instead of being Secretary of the Interior, or some of those other mythical jobs. He is going to throw a fit if he draws anything less than Secretary of State. You sce since Hughes went in there and introduced whiskers and dignity to it, it is considered about the prize one they all shoot at. So you watch Work, he will want to move two chairs nearer to the President every Tuesday at the White House. Then there is this Raskob, that jumped overnight from a Buick into National Prominence. You can’t tell me that that little tase of front page won't make him want to by WILL ROGERS listen to what Mussolini said in answer to our last note, instead of listening to a salesman’s report of how many Chevrolets were traded in during the past week for Fords, No Sir, Al has promised that Baby that his throwing his board of Director time with what is generally referred to as the minority Party will not go unrewarded. I don't look for Raskgb to make a stab at the Secretary of State’s chair, I look for him picturing himself asking financier Mellon gently but firmly to get up, that his chair was to fall into the possession of Another financier. Mellon might not know it but he has caused more unrest and more secret am- bitions to be smouldering under hairy and rich chests than Lindbergh stirred among Aviators. Every rich man now pictures himself as another Mellon. The rich man used to think that he would be slumming if he mixed himself up with any of those Pumpkin Seed jobs, Like a Cabinet officer, Why be one of those when all you had CONGRESSIONAL[“: RECORD Out Today READ PRESIDENT ROGERS’ MESSAGE to do was to control one? But Mellon stepped out and got so much publicity that all the rest began to think, “How long has this been going on? Let me get a crack at the Country’s money, I will show ‘em how to run it into some real jack.” So now the Treasury position has grown till the Presidency is dwarfed. “Why be the President when you can be the Guy who pays the President?” It’s like the Highway Commission in State Governments, Who wants to be the Governor of a state if you can get on the Highway Commission? That's where the pickings are. We are great runners in cycles anyhow. After Mellon we will get the idea that it will take a rich man to handle money, That will go along for a few years ull some old rich Bird as Treasurer will make some private investments and hits a series of dry holes, and he will commence to getting our money mixed up with his, and then we will return to the poor, honest, and incompetent type politician. TO CONGRESS comicbooks.com