Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-09
GOV. MORTON'S FUTURE
Three Positions, Either of Which he Gould
Fill, Are Suggested.
He Will Probably Try for the Senate
Hamilton Fish to Run for
Governor.

What is to be the future of Levi P. Nor
ton?
The failure of his campaign for the St.
Louis nomination will not, it is assumed,
take him out OF political calculations. He
is a well-preserved man, has had large
experience in public life, and likes Office
There are several big prizes to be drawn
for.
Three Position Suggested.
Take the vice presidency. Would he
care for that again? He filled the office
once with signal success. Ii Mckinley is
to head the republican national ticket, as
now seems very likely. the man for second
place must come from the east. Governor
Morton would make a good candidate.
Take the governorship Would he care
for another term in his present office: He
has filled it we'll, and his party will want
a strong man for this years race No
doubt is expressed of his ability to secure
a denomination if he desires it.
Then there is the senatorship. The leg
isla ture to be elected next fall will choose
a successor to Mr.. Hill. The advantages
are conceded to be with the republicans.
The state senate holds over, and that body
contains large republican majority. So
that, IL the republicans make a good run
in the assembly races, they will probably
have majority of the next legislature on
joint ballot. That, of course, will mean
republican successor to Mr.. Hill. How
would Gov. Morton answer for that place?
He has presided over, the Ser ate and is
now occupying the governors chair but
he has never held a Senator's commission.
Would he care to do SO? He orce aspred
20 do so. When Warner Miller came up
Tor reelection Gov. then Mr) Morton op-
posed him, and came so very near success
it required a combno ton of the field to
make the choice. 1t was in this way that
Mf. HiscCck won.
Will Try for the senate.
The weight of well-informed opinion N
Washington is that Gov. Morton will de-
eide to stand for the Senate. The argu-
n ent is that he will not care for another
term as Vice President, and that strong
as he is, another race for governor would
be risky. He went in by phenomenal ma
jority, but he has had to disappoint great
many people. and that sort of thing tells
against the best intrenched men when they
come up for Endorsement. 1t would not
count for so much in senatorial race.
Hamilton Fish for Governor.
With this opinion about Gov Morton goes
the opinion that the republican candidate
for governor in New York next fall will
be Hamilton Fish. who was speaker of the
last assembly. He is son of the late ex-
Secretary Fish, ana is regarded as a very;
able man He is thoroughly identified with
the Platt machine, became speaker of the
thus De likely to command the full Plat
support. He has means and is ambitious
His candidacy would bring both the Raines
bill and the greater New York bill
most prominently in the fight. He took an
active part in the passage of both meas
ures, and shares in the responsibility for
them almost equally with Mr.. Platt him
self Mr. Fish, by the way, will be in
Washington next week, the guest of Con-
gressman Quigg, who has invited company
to meet him at dinner. The function will
be purely social, as Mr.. Hill and other dem
&C rats to be present, but during Mr.
Fish's stay in town New York politics, it
is thought, will come In for some pertinent
discussion. The Fish boom. indeed, may
be launched only little later.
Mr. PIatt's Future.
The question is asked if Gov. Merton is
to come to the Senate, and Mr.. Fish is to
be governor. what will be left for Thomas
c. Piatt? Mr.. Platt is not an old man.
He has had his eye on the Treasury De-
partment for some years, but if Mr.. Nc
kinley is to occupy the White House he
will be a very old man before there is even
chance again of his reaching that deS-
tination. Is there enough now to occupy
him at home? The statement is made that
there is. and that henceforth he will re-
main at home.
The Greater New York Project.
The greater New York project IS de-
scribed as possessing many possibilities.
1t is said to be. indeed quite the biggest
thing of tie kind ever attempted in this
country. The whole local government will
have to be reorganiZed, and that of tself
will call for the hand of an experienced
man when it comes to manipulating big
things. The belief is, therefore, that he
will content himself with directing that
job and for a time at least, let Office
holding and national affairs slide He
wOulI ri
than the second man in Washington. And
Washington, it is believed, will not COM
plain.