The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-13
GETTING HOSTILE.

| Coi: Alexander Troup. of the New Ha-
 ven Union, has his fighting clothes on and
 is ready to swirl his snickersnee about the ears of all and singular who make faces at one W. J. Bryan. or at anything he be- lieves in. He gives notice now that when the next State Convention assem-
 bies those Connecticut Democrats who propose to ignore or condemn free coinage
 will hear from him and from his paper. Then he puts on his second sight veil and thus predicts:
 l MT. Bryan will be on deck when the | next national convention of the Demo- doubt in the mind of The Union but that he will have word to saN about the reconstruction of the financial plank that Will go into the national platform. And 1t mapped out by Wall street plundere-s of the people. nor along lines that will | meet with the approval of the representa- tive of Wall street. Grover Cleveland.
 Fire! Police Help!" Tells The Hart ford Courant, on reading the threats of this recrudescent Knight of La Mancha, but We don't think it Is quite so bad as that We see no reason to apprehend that there will be any necessity for calling out the fire department or the State constab- ulary to hold the Colonel down, or to save the good Democrats of the Nutmeg State from suffering the fate of Jonah | An entire New England winter is to pass before the State convention and we ap- prehend that the Colonel will cool off. | If not, then the true Democrats of old Connecticut should exclaim: Then well come be Cumberland's steed to the shock" or words to that veffect, and sail in for gore or glory.
 But, seriously, is it not singular that man of Colonel Troup's intelligence and prominence should work himself into | a state of mind over dead issue and deader statesman We fear this eminent Blue-nose -(for he was born in Halifax. N. s.) still sides with the land of his birth and Is ma6 because of the Alaskan business. and that sours his temper and makes him reckless. We don't know what else could incite him to threaten | the Democracy with Bryan. In hardly any other State in the Union is there less | the Democrats. under Cicveland's lead carried the State by small but safe plu- ralities In 1896 under the Bryan leader ship the Republican plurality went up to 5363 and in 1900 1t was s.57o.
 These figures are more eloquent than
 words as a protest of the real Democrats of that State against Populistic experi- ments, and to imagine that now when Mir Bryan and his financial theories are only thought of with, mournful sigh by some of his followers. and by good Dem ocrats with something very near to dis
 gust-to think that the Democrats of Con-
 necficut will pay any attention to a man
 who wants to hang a political mummy
 about their necks Is so absurd as to be
 really wonderful
 Whether MT. Bryan will be lon deck''
 or in the stoke hole when the next na-
 tional convention assemblies can make iit-
 tie difference, so far as his influence will
 go If any delegate should abuse him or
 criticize him harshly his friends will dc
 right to defend him. but the conventon
 should quietly ignore him and if he at.
 tempts to project his discredited theories into the body those in command of the Democratic shp should put him off figurativelys for attempting to incite mu t tiny.
 3 Really, Col. Troup and his Union will 2 be better engaged trying to exploit tht 5 wooden nutmeg Industry than by endeav. ] bring to infuse life into a corpse.