The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-14
The Democratic Party Ready to
Receive Applications
The Pdrtu will be ReOrgdnlZed, David
b. Hill and Arthur puc GOrnon Seem
TO have Preference, but Other Names
will be Considered.

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the recent state elections, is a ia
vorite topic with politicians here.
National issues were not involved
to any considerable extent in the
elections, but tie minority party
was before the country in about
ten states, and that it failed to
show any recovery from the
backsets it had received at sew.
eral preceding elections, is re.
garded as significant. The pre-
valling thought is that the result
will emphasize the necessity for
a complete reorganization of the
party. Some of the ablest of the
independent newspapers of the
country have declared since the
elections that there really is no
democratic party at this time
that the best that can be said is
that there is disorganized army
of democrats without an issue of
moment around which to rally
and without a leader to point the
way to success.
That influential democrats rep.
reSenting eastern and middle
west states propose to make an
effort to reorganize the party
and to do it without delay. seems
assured. Arthur P. German has
many enemies, but he is regard
ed as a forceful man, and many
eastern democrats are looking to
him to take the lead in the effort
to put new life in the party.
Other representatives of the par
ty maintain that David B. Hill is
the man successfully to under
take the work, and it has been
suggested that if German and
Hill join hands and receive the
support of influential Democrats
in the middle west something
may be accomplished.
There is every reason to be-
lieve that William j. Bryan will
be left entirely out of the pro-
gram, unless he expresses a will
lingness to assist in the organi-
zation along the lines that are to
be proposed.
The first step in the plan of re-
organization, it is said, will be to
form in as many states as posi-
BILE new organizations untainted
with the doctrine of free silver
and the other isms for which the
party stood in the last two nation
al campaigns. Many states will
select new committees during the
early part of the coming year,
and the effort will be to make up
these state committees with the
view of supporting the PROPOSE
ton for an entirely new state or
ganization. The national COM
mitteemen now in office-the men
chosen at the Kansas City con-
vention-will serve until 1904,
but the committees complexion,
it is declared. is not discouraging
to the men who believe the time
has come for new deal.
Every member of that COM
mittee supported Bryan loyalty
last year, but not all of them be-
lieved in him, and fewer, it is
asserted, believe in him now. 1t
is therefore confidently expected
that a majority of the members
of the committee will lend their
efforts to any reasonable scheme
of reorganization.
It will be the desire of the re-
organization leaders to have the
party in the new path before the
state elections next year. 1t
seems to be understood that the
work of reorganization will be to
some degree a work of educa-
ton, and the hope is held out by
the optimistic reorganization
men that if the party can get a
fair start on new lines in next
years state contests it may be
ready to engage in formidable
contest Ill the national campaign
two years later.
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