Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-04
T H e TON 800 M
1t is Now Encountering Some Stormy
Weather.
Mr.. Platt Again Under Suspicion
Discussion of the Old Ticket
Plan.

The Morton presidential boom is encoun-
| tering some stormy weather. The gales this
| week in New York are likely to be unusually
| severe. The craft, however is thought to
| be fairly Well rugged, and 1t may live
| through the trial But if it founders, the
| small boats, with the crew, are reasonably
| certain not to row in the same direction for
| safety.
MIR. Plat Under Suspicion.
| Thomas C. Plat is again under suspicion.
| He processes to be Morton man, but some
| of the governors friends doubt his loyalty
| to the governors cause. They accuse him
| of desire to secure control of the state
delegation ostensibly in the governors in
terest, but really for the purpose of playing
it in the national convention for his own
| individual ends. They are moving, there
| fore, to checkmate him, and their plan is to
resist his scheme of party reorganization,
which is to be voted upon next Tuesday.
| If Mr.. Plat carries his point and succeeds
| in installing the men of his choice in power,
no remedy VIII remain to the other side
| but to bolt, and bolt, of course, by either
, side will mean serious, if not complete loss
| of prestige for the state in the battle for
| the presidential nomination.
| Neither Side in Earnest.
| 1t is reported here that neither side is in
| earnest in urging Gov. Morton for Iirst
| place; that if Mr.. Piatt lacks sincerity In
| his professions so also do the mea who
are opposing him. The division is said to
be very much on the line developed at
Minneapolis in 1892 On the ono side are
Harrison men, and on the other side anti
Harrison men. Mr. Depew, Mr.. Hiscock
and Warner Miller are said 20 be warmly in
| favor of me denomination of the eN-Presi-
| cent, ami tits time of experimenting that
with the denomination of Mr.. Morton. In
| ether words, they are for the old ticket
| upon platform promising return of old
| times with the Ieturn of that ticket TO
| office. This is said to be the real meaning
| OF recent conferences in New rork, in
which Cen. Harr ;son participated, and to
| have the approval of Harrison men in
every section of the country. They see in
such combination an inevitable influence
and they are laboring to impress Its value
| on doubling Thomases now somewhat
| irresolutely following in the train of other
candidates.
Gov. MOrtOH's ADVERTISEMENTS.
Gov. Morton's individual emba ira ssments
| are plainly revealed in all OF this. If New
| York is not behind him he is rot in the
! race. New York's real position is ques-
| tier ed. The cordial Endorsement of his can
| d'dacy by the republican state convention
| has been swallowed up in this later racket
of the rarty managers. The power is with
| them. If they can he brought together all
| will be VT IL; if they persist in their pres
! ent division all will be lost. Gov. Morton
| is asked &c do something" But the ques-
| ten comes up. what can he do? He is in
| very dc licate position. The state con-
vention of his PARTY has practically put
| him in nomination for the presidency, and
IL he should come out now with deliver
ance II the effect that he is undoubtedly in
the field it might have a strange sound. 1t
might be construed as an acceptance on his
part of these stories about the local man
ayers, and as an appeal by him for good
faith and fair play. And yet he is being
urged TO take some action calculated to
bring NJ. Platt up with a round turn on
the che side, and the Harrison men in the
state with round turn on the other side.
Assisting the Movement.
Meanwhile, so far as the movement for
the renomiI alton of the old ticket of Har-
! rison and Morton is concerned, the efforts
of Mr. Depew, Mr.. Hisc ock and Warner
| Miller are to be assisted by Senator Elkins.
who almost lives In New York city; Senator
Sewell, who lives just across the Hudson
river. and Senator Proctor, who always
stops in the metropolis his frequent
journeyings to and fro between his home in
Vermont and his residence here. And they
are all three clever politicians, with two
good eyes apiece.