A campaign to secure the inclusion of an Irish-American in
Dr. Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet has been started by the Gaelic American and is being vigorously backed by the Jingo anti- arbitration newspapers. The Irish claim is admittedly strong from the party point of view, as Irish politicians worked hard for Dr. Wilson's election, and its significance is enhanced by the fact that the Panama question will very probably go over to the next administration for settlement. Senator O'Gorman, of New York, who strongly advocated a preferential policy last summer, is the Gaelic American's nominee, and his inclu- sion in the Cabinet, as the Washington correspondent of the Times points out, though not necessarily committing the President to the anti-arbitration clique, might well strengthen it at Washington. What is more serious, it might " by con- solidating politically the Irish-American element, restore to it that power of maleficent interference in Anglo-American relations which in old days it used sometimes to exercise." It is obvious that such power would be lent additional leverage by the establishment of Home Rule in Ireland.
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