Arizona republican., 1899-06-17
STEPHAN AND CROKER
The Struggle Between inc Biq
 Chiefs for Supremacy.
Croker Has Shown That Though He Hay Be Good Tammany Ma ChiniSf He Does Not Gut Enough Ice in Sfafe Politics.

New York, June 16.-The bubbles that come to the surface of the poIti- cal pool from the Sheehan-Croker feud are being watched with deep interest by democratic politicians throughout the stat; as indications of far more extensive disturbance than is apparent to those who are not .conversant with the inside affairs of Tammany Hall. Croker is no longer Tammany Hall the msn who are backing Sheehan as sert They do not allege that h:s power is gone, but are content to as seTt that he is getting too far away from the body of that organization to have the control over it's voting strength that he had two years ago, or even last year.
 There IS no special need of haste on the part of the anti-Croker men. There is no convention this year, and Croker cannot use the state committee to strengthen his position in the party in the state at large. DaVid Bennett Hill settled that point very satisfac- torily to himself last fall at the state convention. in Syracuse. Within two hours after the convention adjourned he organized the state comnittee to suit himself. Never once since cleo ton has he held out any olive branch to Croker. He has said nothing that could be construed as antagonist:c to Tammany Hall, but he has not missed or lo1-f1r tr,1 MT tr0l i-7 tender spot when the opportunity presented itself As no one ever has accused Senator FiH of carrying on a fight simply for the love of fighting. his pertinacity in batting Croker may be regarded as significant. He un- derstands the Tammany- chieft:an's limitations and appears to be counting upon the latter's love of money to cause his downfall.
 As a state leader Crolzer has proved himself fat failure. More than hali of the democrats in the state believe that if Stanchfield had been nominated for governor last fall he could have been elected, and hold Croker respcn- sible fer the defeat by his obstinacy in
 
 Tammany will not control the next state convention.
 On the Sheehan-Croker fight Hill IS dumb He is minding his own busi- ness in a way that convinces his friends that he is too wsll satisfied with the situation in New York City to want to meddle with it,
 
 state headquarters, to which the dem ocratic state committee has just com mitted itself, originated with H:ll. Tammany never believed in campaigns of education. With a ticket to elect and money to elect it with, a short campaign and a merry one, was the Tammany motto. Hills ideas were different. Frank Campbell, the last democratic comptroller, who is chair man of the democratic state commit tee, is one of Senator Hill's trusted Eeutenants, and it was he who started the agitation for a permanent state headquarters. And he will get it. It will help Tammany Hall only as part of a democratic state organiza- ton.
 Whatever the remote future may hold in store for Hill, the upstate leaders who enjoy his confidence and who are in close communication with him, believe that the senator has not labored in vain; that Tammany Hall soon will have new leader, and that the leader will so conduct. the affairs of that organization that it will be content to become a part Of the regu- lar state machine instead of trying to be "the whole machine"