Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-17


 but the force of MT Troup's person. ality carried 1t through and the Unions later years havo been pros- porous. It is now owned by stock | company which Is controlled by the l Troups, For years 1t has been l. | cent paper and has wielded a great influence among the middle classes. while everybody wants to read what Alexander Troup has to say on a subject of moment.
 Troup served in the state legisla- ture two terms. S3 and S5, and then was out of a state office for ten years, but remained in force in demo- cratic matters that others must reck- on with always. When the '96 cam paign came on he had little thought of Bryan as a presidential possibility. It was as the result of the way Con- nectieut went up in the air over Bry- an that Troup's later prominence in connection with the Nebraskan came however. Connecticut had 12 dele gates at Chicago in '96 and only two of them, Kennedy of Naugatuck and Houlihan of Newtown voted at all for a presidential nomniee. They voted for William E. Russell of Mas sachusetts.
 When the delegation came home there were ructions. The Connecti- cut democracy came near deserting Bryan in a body and that it. didn't is due to Alexander Troup. Clinton B. Davis, chairman of the state central committee and 14 others-including Melbert B. Cary of Ridgefield, who has been mentioned vice-presiden tial possibility this year, and claims now to be great Bryan man--re- signed from the state committee en masse Congressman Carlos French resigned from the national democrat ic committee as soon as he got back to Connecticut. A delegation was sent to the Palmer and Buckner con- vention and state committee elected by the Bryan bolters, many of whom have since become republicans and practically all of whom voted twice for Mckinley.
 Troup was the Sheridan-not 20 miles away-who rallied the waver- ing for Bryan and regularity. The state committee was filled up and he was made chairman. Later the state convention appointed him to the na- tional committee, in place of French. The campaign that he carried on that year will not be forgotten for a long time yet. He collected less tha $4,- 900 all told, but made it appear like S40,O00. He kept the republicas and their Palmer and Buckner adjunct uneasy throughout the campaign Near the end he got his committee to- gether and received reports from its members indicating that Bryan would carry the state by good figures. A stirring statement to this effect was given out, .''.
 His Row With Cummings. In 1900 number of the panic stricken democrats of '96 had come flocking back and Homer Cummings of Stamford, and of Sam" Fessen- den's law firm, put up a job to get the membership of the national com mittee away from Troup. A resolu- tion was put through the state con- vention which sent delegates to St Louis naming Cummings, who dis claimed all knowledge of it.. When the delegates to the national con- vention met later they would have disregarded their instructions and re- elected pTroup, but he refused to per- init and Cummings went onto the committee in his place. .... # kaua G,noa,t.a IT ;Itor Mir Troup is just as friendly with l republicans of prominence as with those in his own party-indeed, per- haps more so. Congressman Lilley I and he are close friends. Heswrota Lilleyto show the investigating, com mittee his letters on the submarine investigation. Lilley. gave out Q eulogistic interview on Taft after re- turning from Chicago. 'I'd like to have him say what he thinks of 1aft's running mate," Troup says. Troupis paper supported Lilley when he first ran for congress, mostly be- cause his opponent was Homer Cum mings. ps.. And now Alexander Troup, at 69. Is going to hand over the Union to his sons, Philip and Alexander. Jr But that is largely matter of form. Alexander Troup will retire from the activities of life when he dies. r
 And he'll always be radical, both in his views and in their expression. In the first Bryan campaign it was said, of him that he was free silver man only because there wasn't any greenback party for him to join. There was also expression of the be- lief that he would be for the free and unlimited coinage of wampum if he could find anybody to join with him in the issuance of clam shells He's ardent in his beliefs and likes; equally ardent in his disbeliefs and dislikes. You may have scant re- spect for his judgment, but you will have to admire his courage, his loy- alty and his persistency. He's q great Uncle Alexander.
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