The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-10
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1908
A srcKENEp ORGAN.

The New Haven Union of which Colonel Alexander Troup is the editor, is dis gusted. to speak plainly. The Union is one of the few Democratic papers of the Mast which still cling to the skirts ] of Mir. Bryan. as Saul clung to the skirt of Samuel till it was rent. Colonel Troup has hung on with grim pertinacity. but there are indications that his hold is weakening, and that he may let go and tell the peerless" to go hang.
 1t Is all on account of Ohio and the unrepentant gold-bug. Clarke. whom MT. Bryan deigns to accept as Democrat The Union declines to accept either the candidate or Bryans excuses for him. He was a bolter and that fixes his politi- cal status for all time to come. The paper intimates that the selection of Clarke was a trade, and declares that 3t prefers Hanna. if any choice can be allowed. It declares that it will not support Clarke. and adds:
 So far as The Union Is concerned men like Mir. Clarke, who bolted the ticket in 1s96, and are still unrepentant, will not live long enough to do penance for their political sins, instead of being rewarded with the highest nonors Tn the party for their treachery.
 So far as the support or non-support of a Connecticut paper Is concerned we presume it will make very little differ- ence in the vote of Ohio. but Colonel Troup is determined to put himself on record. We doubt if he will support Cleveland when he Is nominated, although The Union brands itself as a Democratic paper.
 The paragraph we have quoted has a wonderfully familiar ring to Alabama ears. If it were plate matter and had been sent to a number of our State Democratic papers it would not be more familiar to our ears. That word "bolter'' falls trippingly from the Fabers of a number of our esteemed Bourbon contem- poraries who look on the one word as a reply to any argument that can be made in favor of a sound Democrat. A man who was boiter is politically dead, d-d and delivered" according to the creed of these only loyal Democrats.
 But how is it that Colonel Troup and his Union have nothing to say about Ne braska? True. we believe no specimen of the hatel gold-bug family was placed on the ticket. but there was a chowder of Bryan Democrats, Populists and free sll- yer Republicans that might have turned the stomach of any Democrats who got a whifr of the resultant odor, but we sup pose that doesn't count Anything or anybody is acceptable except bolter and fof him the door of hope Is closed bolted and locked for all time
 Colonel Troup is a prominent man in Connecticut politics, to say nothing of his position as member of the National Democratic Committee He ought to be well posted on men and measures. and ought to be able to see that Mir. Bryan has reached a point in his downward political career where he Is willing to be all things to all men provided he can retain even a semblance of consistency The Ohio convention lacked much, in it's makeup in it's nominees and in its plat from of being what we call a genuine Democratic convention. but on the other hand 1t was almost equally as far from the Chicago and Kansas City platforms. The whole affair was a sort of turtle stew, neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring" It neither endorsed nor repu- dlated any of the issues that have divided Democrats, but left each of the candi- dates to believe and advocate what ne pIeases Colonel Troup may well feel disgusted, but he may as well get accus- toned to it.