Arizona republican., 1899-03-28
Tammany Planning to Overthrow
 the NebPaSkan.
THINK FAVORABlY OF STONE
Fact Thai He Carried Missouri Last Year When inc Other Western States Went Republican Is in Ills FaVor-JOneS Followers say New York won't Amount 10 a Fly on Wheel Nexf Year.

l New York, March 27.-1n the eSti-
 nation of a very powerful member Of the democratic national committee
 (who has had talks within few days
 with Chairman James K. Jones),
 Richard Croker and Perry Belmont,
 the Hon. David B. Hill, and, in fact.
 democrats Of every faction in the state
 of New York appear to be taking them
 selves too seriously nowadays. 1 ''Tammany and the New York state l democratic delegation" this right
 hand man of Chairman Jones said last
 night. will not amount to a fly on a
 wheel in the democratic national cen
 yention next year" There are disin- terested citizens who go farther and
 say that the democratic party in the
 nation is taking itself altogether too 1 seriously. Far-seeing democrats have
 said privately since 1896 that it will
 take the demcratic party twenty-five
 years to anything like re-establish
 itself in the confidence of the Ameri-
 can people. The basis of this state
 ment is the general distrust Of the
 democratic party because of the na-
 tional platform Of 1S9U
 The bother over the S1 and the s1O
 democratic dinners on Jefferson day
 has become almost ludicrous The two
 dinners have now become a Dy-word and jest. The Hon. Arthur Pue Cor
 man of Maryland was at the Fifth Av-
 enue hotel last night for a few mo-
 ments. He smilingly warded off, all 1 inquiry as to which of the two demo- cratic dinners, the S1 one or the $l0 one. he is to attend on Jefferson day. MT. Germans friends believe that he should be candidate for the nomina-
 tion for President in the next demo- cratic national convention Colonel Bryan's friends insist that he should be renominated. One of the most im- portant democrats in the state of New York said yesterday that he was con- Vinced that ex-Governor William .b Stone of Missouri was to be proposed in the democratic national convention next year, and that Stones friends were already trying to secure the southern and western delegates for him. In addition to German, Bryan and Stone, it must not be forgotten that ex-Supreme Court Justice Angus tus Van Wyck of Brooklyn has been told that the lightning may strike him.
 The anti-eastern democrats control the democratic national committee by vote of 37 to 13. The democratic na- tional committee prepares the temporary roll of delegates for the national convention and this temporary organization appoints among other committees the committee on resolutions, which prepares the platform to be sub mitted to the convention. Just whether MT. Bryan or MT. Stone will control the thirty-seYen members Of uppermost in the minds of democrats who are now marching up and down the country, preparing for next years battle.
 Letters sent into the east from the. west and southwest say that Colonel Bryan is losing ground for the reason that he sticks to free silver at 16 to l, but tho majority of the testimony from the southern states as received in New OI IA lS lO the 6n0CI ludl OOlOneI bTydn is still very popular in that section. Colonel Bryan practically lost his state last fall while ex-GoVernor Stone of Missouri can still point to rock ribbed democratic state. MT. German lost his state of Maryland last fall and MT. Van Wyck lost the state of New York. So that according to eastern democrats conversantf with the discus sions of their western brethren. ex- Governor Stone at the moment seems to be in the best position.
 It is the opinion that both eastern and western democrats through the in fuence of certain agencies (the New York democrats through these Jeffer- son day dinners) are playing for posi- tion. Tammany has no election next year, except for senators and assem- blymen, and incidentally losing in terest in the gubernatorial fight in the state of New York. There is no cleo tion for mayor for Greater New York, and it remains to be seen, it was said just how Tammany will turn out in a year, even though it be a Presidential All familiar with the facts believe that he eastern democrats are attempting o force upon their southern and western brethren a modification of the platform of 1896.
 The democratic national committee