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Show THE REORGANIZED DEMOCRACY. " There Is to be a reorganization of the Democratic party, It appears, on Populist Popu-list lines, and Utah Is especially named as a State which the new organization will tako In hand. The Hon. Thomas E. Watson, whom the Populists ran for President this vear. appears to be the central figure In the movement, and Messrs. Bryan and Hearst will co-operate with him. The effect will of course bo to mako the party an antl-truat party, antl-impsriallstlc, and probably anti-Mormon.tat least to tho extent of denouncing polyganvy' and church Interference Inter-ference In politics and In tho schools. The effort probably will be to hold together to-gether as far as possible the ."liver sentiment sen-timent of tho Wnyt, and to mako the new organization a radical party. Thero can bo no doubt but that tho Western Democrats will refuse to be guided any more by tho Domocrats of tho East, seeing the utter disaster which that Eastern guidance has just brought upon tho party. ' The Whig party disappeared from American political life after tho great disaster which overwhelmed it In 1852, and out of its ruins, and drawing from the liberty sentiment in The Democratic party, tho great and triumphant Republican Re-publican party of the Nation came into power. The situation now has many features of similarity for tho Democratic party to those which confronted the Whig party fifty-two years ago. The Democratic Demo-cratic party is practically annihilated as a forco In American politics. It surrendered sur-rendered principle In tho recent campaign, cam-paign, as the Wh'g party did In 1852, and it has two Irreconcilable wings, as the Whlcs had thon. Tho Democrats of the East will for the most part be content to go with the Republican party, oa tho Whigs of the South in 1852 were content to go with the Democratic party. The reorganized party will be able to put into its declaration of principles all kth ihlDsn that .Wat a on, ffran, and,. Hearst stand fo And llrst of all, it will have a lively war for tho namo ''Democratic." It 's not In the slightest slight-est decree probable that the Eaalora wing of the party would give up tho namo, nt present, nt least- but if both wings try to hold on to it, thero will be a merry war four yoars heneo, and tho radicals will be pretty euro to reap aa arcat a victory as thc-y scorod at tho Chlcaco convention of 1S96. |