The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-03-20
'REPUBLICANISM IN TEXAS.
Morton's Missionary Says Things
Arc In Awful Shape.
WILL FIGHT SILVER TO THE DEATH
NcKinisy's Ambiguous Uttersnoss on
( Finance InJure Him in the Esst-The
Race In the Eleventh.

Austin, Texns, March ls.-For several
days past room No. s Attn Driskill hotel
has been quite attractive to republican
leaders hereabouts. Ex-Mayor Mcdonald,
Frank Hamilton and other lights, and
finally Wright Quincy, have gone there,
and their visits have started many ru-
NOR on an almost endless round. The &C.
cupant of the room IL Hon. Isaac L. HINT
of New York, the son of Judge Ward
Hunt, deceased, who was on the New
York supreme bench ut the time OF his
death, who came to the surface In New
York politics when Roscoe Conkling began
TO attract attention and who was elected
to congress shortly after the breaking up
of the whig party. mr. Hunt was for a
number of years member OF the state
republican executive committee OF New
York and is an intimate friend Of Coy
ernor Morton. His presence here is TAX N
TO mean that he Is out looking for South
western support for Governor Morton
presidential aspirations.
To The Post correspondent Mr.. Hun,
said:
II Just came down here to get away from
the Northern March winds. ! retired frou
politics some years ago and am not mere
on Il political mission. Cf course am
still interested in politics and have mel
and talked with prominent Texas repuD-
leans aud informed myself az TO the STU
alton here, iust as you would 10 " YOU
were IN New York and there was q IeA1s
man running for governor. Thcre ~ 10
political Significance 10 my Visit to Ausun,
however. am a C1use friond OF Governor
Morton and am just trying TO ind out
what the sentiment ia toward hlm Town
here. | think that ic an early campaign
had boon made for him in Texas he might
have carried the State. a. the mattor
stands now, think II too lac to w 10 90
anything for him in this state. Nest OF
the district conventions have pen neln
and the friends OF the other candidates
have aligned and committed themselves To
that degree that thero Is no opening ieii
Does Mir. rlatt know that you are
down hcrt?" asked The Post man.
"Mr Plat knows nothing of my move
ments." replied Mr.. Hunt with a. smile.
what are McNinlcys chances OF cap
turing the nomination."
'"rhcy were excellent and are still good,
but hts position ON the financial question
viii most likely defeat hun. m" ONO con
vcntions declaration as to money which
Mr.. Mckinley IS alleged 20 nav" written,
means nothing. The Eastern PEOPLE Will
not support Il man who doesn't declare
himself plainly "a to silver while Inc
Western contingent VIII tn all likelihood
insist upon an unmistaiinble aNnwal OF
friendship for silver from the mAn VINO
gets It's support. This IL not the year for
Ftraddlng, and neither faction Is going 30
throw itself into the arms of man whose
predictions IN the matter of money are "A
mystery. Mr.. Norton would not ran ON
such platform as Nh Mckinley has
erected I'm advance. He and his iderds
VIII Insist upon Au unequiyocol drrlnra ton
against tle free and unlimited coinage az
silver at the ratio of le to J. heretofore
we OF New York haven't paid much Jttcn-
ton to this free SILVER business. We
thought V was only another 1f those pn
litical cruGes which sweep over the cpun-
try periodically and would soon die ont,
hut when VIC saw the an senators tCom
the West obstruct legislation dav after
0pE " hilp Tho commercial nj no.
country were approaching the verge of
ruin bocarse Of thor course, we awoke TO
the gravity ~ tie situation ana We now
propose 10 iight the devil with IRE ana Sill
the silver hcre,v outright Another ohiec.
lion 10 AIR. Mckinney with w is Torn cf
his eNtrcme protccuonism We favor an
Chinese wall erected around this country
Mr. Mckinley wants moro than protection
lie stands Tor 2 Frohihitive rather than q
Mr., Hunt is undecided whether or not he
viii remain here uuiil after the republican
convention if heid on March -. II is plain
with the condition OF Tho republican parr,.
N the South ana IS free 20 SAY that rrpuh.
ncan politics IN Texas Ia ~ nu "ayfNt
shape" II, as has been suggested h..
came hero with unlimited authority ta tup
Mr Mortons harrei Il aoilats iudiclnuslN
pianted cculf CAPTURE the ToX15 iustrnr.
tons, he evidently doesn't propose tu eNer-
cNc thai authority. Consultation with
Wright Cuuey has probably Convinced hsf,
f''., A'as>''f' l'iF afthtNtl 10 NllF NNiitnHl
convention would be- uuinsiructsst AMI that
the proper place "a mako a inlay for Al
would be az ~ Louis
The Post correspondent having been IN
formed that Mir. Hunt had SOM for NJ
Wilbur craw ford Rced's manager IN th!s
stare. 70 meet him here. asked htn Il the
ruinor WIS true. His reply was.
mad intended "a 30 up md SEQ Mr
CRAWFORD, but rs ha has INST with se.ioga
inanei9i reverse lately and Is undouht eIlv
worried over his personal sTaus / dco,,
think ! shall disturb him with political
Mr. Hunt rs 81 the opinion that tine ltly
whites arc entitled TO recognition ana that
V would be Rood republican politics to take
them In out OK the wet