The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-28
PLEASED With HIS PLACE
Morton Hopes to Revive the An
cient Custom Of %Re-Electing
the Vice President.
He Is Not Sure but That He Is
q Presidential Posi-
@ WAS [Ts. bility. [
Willing to Pay Literally for Any Favors
That May Be offered - About
Running Mates. @"% M% E

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-No vice-president
has been reelected since 1880, although b0-
fore that it was almost the rule to re-elect
yice-presidents John Adams. George Gin
ton, Daniel D. Tompkins and John G. Cal
houn having had that honor. Yet another
New Yorker hopes, after its sixty years OF
innocuous desuetude, to revive the custom.
Levi Parson Morton is not, to be sure, the
equal OF George Clinton or Daniel D.
Tompkins, bat he could not be persuaded
ct that fact. He considers his adminlssra-
ton Of his office. embarrassed though 1T
was by the fight over the foroe bill, fully as
successful and as oredltable as was the first
term administration of either Clinton or
Tompkins, and he has no doubt that he
would serve as accsptably a second time.
Like Clinton and like Tompkins, Morton
would like to be president. He thinks he
would make a good candidate; he thinks
he would make a good president. He is
not sure that he may not be called upon to
take the first place on the ticket and save
New York. He thinks he and his potent
arguments could unite the divided rspub-
lican party of New York as nothing and
nobody else could do, and he is perfectly
willing to undertake a task which Blame
and Harrison view askance. But it is evil
dent to him, as to others, thatthe chance OF
his being called upon to make the hsrcu-
lean effort is rather slender, and Is getting
simmer every day. 1t is not strange that,
With q bankers caution, he thinks more OF
the bird which seems to be in his hand than
of the two which seem to BIO in the bush'
So he thinks twice about denomination &c
the vice presidency where he thinks once OF
nomination to the presidency.
Comparatively = reno inmate g seuMs no q
be if Blaine should be nominated. B!aln'
ID of Maine, even if he is the natlona
leader of his party, and it would be dihicul
if not impracticable to make up q ticket on
of two eastern men, and especially out o
breed. Morton is still a stalwart. Mortol
il still q supporter of Platt as Blaine IS still
Of Warner Miller. Plat made Morton VIC
president. E
When the Chicago convention determine
to take tho cynical advice OF Ingalls, :
and some Wall street man like Wllliar
Walter Phelps, Plat, who needed to b
placated, was ready with Morton AS tn
man for the second place, and Morton va
. nominated because Platt said ne should o.
Platt owed it to him. for he just failed !
an expensive effort to get a senatorshlp Il
Morton, but was more or less concerne
about it. His nomination seemed to Nor
ton a full return for all the many thou
ands of dollars which Platt had expende
for him, and he has ever since been as ana
ions to serve Platt as though he had new
spent a dollar in politics. This has neee'
sarily identified him strictly with the Fla
wing Of the party. Whenever Platt aske
him to do anything hs has done II. even
the extreme Of going to the Wh1ts houv
and the departments seeking patronage =
him.