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May Reorganize III They Wish, but
He VIII Continue to BE Head of
the Organized Faction.
FOR THIRD BATTLE
HIS LIEUTENANTS ALREADY FORMU-
LATINO A PROGRAMME.
Literary Bureau to BE Maintain ed,
Which VIII Take Care that Gre
Organization" Is Not doomed.

CHl-AGO, NOV. 13.-lf Grover CleVe-
land, Don NJ. Dickinson, General Bragg,
John Griffin Carlisle. Charles S. Fairchild
and other eminent Democrats imagine they
will be able to reorganize the party on
anti-Bryanite lines they are badly mis-
taken. Neither Bryan nor his lieutenants
will permit any reorganization that takes
the control of the party out of their /.
hands Bryan is not even "scotched," let
alone being killed. as a presidential guam
tty. His defeat last week has not re-
tired him from politics. He declines to
be kicked out of the party he has carved
out of the silver wing of the Democracy,
the Populists and Silver Republicans. II
is his party, his supporters say, and
Cleveland, Dickinson ct al. have nothing
to do with 1t. Organism will live. the Bry-
antics assert and il will be kept alive
by Bryan himself. Already plans are be-
ing mapped out for third battle, Bryan's
supporters evidently believing in the old
saw, IF at first you don't succeed try,
try again." As proof that the Bryanized
Democracy intends to run Bryan again in
1904, it is stated that Jones's campaign
committee has engaged rooms in the Sc
curity building here, and intends to keep
up the Bryan propaganda until the next
national convention.
The plan proposed is the one which pre-
vailed during the last four years. A lit
erary bureau is to be maintained, when
will send out matter to Democratic weekly
papers under the authority of the national
committee regularly. and Vice Chairman
johnson or Secretary Walsh, or both, will
be in charge all the time. The executive
committee of the national committee,
which is essentially a Bryan body. will
supervise the character of this literary
output, and see to it that nothing but rad
zeal doctrines and theories receive the
seal OF the national committee. All plans
for the reorganization of the party will
be discussed by this literary bureau, and
good care taken that none receive its APP
prevail except it contemplates the reten-
ton of the existing party management
The cardinal principle of party faith laid
down will be that no Democrats except
those who worked and voted for the cleo
ton OF Bryan are entitled 10 any voice
in the management of the party, and all
who either aided in the success of Pres
ident Mckinley or refused to take part i'm
the campaign will be dubbed traitors
and refused admission to the party. Such
Democrats as Don Dickinson James II.
Eckels and others who actively opposed
the election OF Bryan viii be excommuni-
Gated will bell and candle. 1t will be in
sisted that, while subject to minor
changes. the Chicago and Kansas City
platforms contain all there is of Demo-
cratic principles and doctrines. and any
thing of more conservative kind is party
treason and its advocates traitors. Bryan
-
leaders of the party. and none too mild
condemnation poured the heads of
those who would seek to depose them
Some of the men who nearest to Mr.
Bryan, and who, while they do not claim
TO voice his beliefs, are presumed to be in
iuenced and prompted by them, say that
the defeat of their leader is not attribute
BILE entirely to the Republicans. They
openly charge that ne was betrayed by
Democrats who professed to be loyal, but
who secretly worked TO bring about his
downfall. Some Democrats very high in
the party councils are included in this
charge, and the movement for q reorgani-
zation of the party, coming so soon after
the election, and while Mr.. Bryan may be
considered to be crushed. If he ever is to
be. bears them out, they say, in this
charge. They say that even if the fisht
which they have begun shall result in the
complete disruption of Democracy the
blood will be on the hands of the men
whom they call TRAITORS" and not on
their own.
AS another part Of this plan. the commit
tee has arranged also that the National
League of Democratic clubs shall keep on
its organization during the next four
years. with the idea OF taking a hand in
the selection OF delegates to the next ma
tional convention. These clubs were all
formed in Bryan's interests, and their
members generally supposed to be par
ticularly devoted 10 him and the brand of
Democracy he represents. The whole at
tempt of the committee and the clubs will
be 10 see 10 it that the Democratic party
continues 10 be a radical party. and to de-
feat whatever endeavors the old-line DEM
ocrats may make TO return it to conserva-
tive lines.