Arizona republican., 1899-08-06
CASTING OUT CROKER
Document Thai jenkins is
TO Show the Boss.
He Will Be Permitted TO Gaze on it
This week-ChiCagO Platform
Democrats in Trouble Over In
paid-FOr Dollar Dinners.

New York, Aug. 5.-When DR.. Will
liam T. jenkins matts his brother-ln-
law. Richard Croker. on the re-urn Of
the latter from London next week he
will hand him & document that will
undoubtedly have a very disquietinS
effect on the Tammany leader This
document is a cali just sent out bear
ing the names of more than two score
of the most pomirent men in New
York. 1t sets forth that the time has
come for the people to unite and cas-
out Croker. 1t is the first move in the
formation of a new party in local pol
itics that will have for its chief plat
form No Bossism. 1t will also apply
to Boss Platt The call is signed By
Daniel Browne as secretary Among
the other names on the document is
that of J. Edward Simmons. the pre- i
dent of the Fourth National bank
who is a great power in banking cir
cles.. The name of Seth Low also ap-
pears. Others on the cad are Hermann
Oelrichs, ex-Mayor William B. Grace,
Oswald C,otendorfeI. William H Clark,
the broker and incorporation coun-
sci; ex-Mayor Edward Cooper, ex-
Mayor Thomas GiIroy. George ].
Gould, ex-Mayor Hugh ]. Grant, John
d. Cr.mmins and John H Stanin
There are many others of prominence.
The first meeting is to be held in a
few days, when a plan of campaign is
is to be decided on. John C. Sheehan
is also in the movement.
Chicago platform democrats of this
city and Brooklyn appear 10 be in a
peck of trouble The committee of fif-
teen appointed to manage the famous
one-dollar dinner has failed to render
an account of its stewardship, al
though, it is said, repeatedly tsked to
do so by the committee of one hundred
which appointed it, Another griev-
ance is the high-handed work of the
committee of twenty, appointed to
form a permanent organization. in
refusing to make any report except
the newspae rs, and even then
in a fragmentary manner. The major
ity of the members of the committee
of one hundred threaten to call a
meeting of that body over Chairman
Browns head if he insists on further
delay, and to have the committee OF
twenty discharged.
The failure of the one-dOllar dinner
committee to wind up its affairs IS
causing serious trouble, and may end
in a split in the party. A short time
ago it leaked out that Caterer Stimmel
of the Bowery had not been settled
with and that he found himself COM
PEELED to call On some OF the dinner
committee personally and get his
money in driblets. DR. George w.
Thompson, ST., one of the dinner COM
mittee, admits that he paid Mr.. St.m-
met money on more than one occasion
out of his own pocket, so as to keep
the scandal out of the newspapers. DIR.
Thompson says that Lawyer Eugene
V. Brewster of Monroe street, Brook
lyn, who is temporary chairman OF
the ways and means committee OF
Kings county, having been appointed
by the national democratic committee
of Chicago, had about fifty people at
his tables, not one of whom paid for
his dinner. 1t is also asserted ! hat the
dinner committee is short in other ci-
rections, and that is one very good rc,l-
son why it is in no hurry 10 report to
the committee of one hundred.