The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-16

PtlpuS' " IN now oWncu bA SlpHk | company which is controlled by the Troups, For years It has been a d. cent papor and has yielded a great in- tlnence among tho m lile classes, while everybody wants to read Waat Alexander Troup has 10 say on sub- Iect of moment
 Troup served in the state legislature two terms, S3 ana Sa, and then was out of state office for ten years, but remained force in democratic matters that others must reckon with always, When the '96 campaign came on he had little thought of Bryan os a presi- dental possibility 1t was as the result of the way Connecticut went up in the air over Bryan that Troups later prominence In connection with the Nc brasSan camc, however, ConnectcM had l2 delegates at Chicago In 'o6, ana only two of them, Kennedy of Nauga- tuck and Houlihan at Nowtown, voted at all for a presidential nominee, They voted for William F. Russell of Massa- chusetts
 When the delegation came home there were ructIons, The Connecticut dem- ocracy came near deserting Bryan in n body and that 1t didn't Is due to Alex andor Troup. Clinton F. Davis, chaIr- man of the state central committee, and 14 others Including Mclbert B. Cary of Ridgeneld, who has been mon toned a V ce-presldentlal possibility thls year, and claims now to be great Bryan man resigned from the state committee en masse Congressman Carlos French resigned from the na- tional democratic committee as soon as he got back to Connecticut. A delegn- ton was sent to the Palmer and Buck nor convention and state committre elected by the Bryan bolters, many Of whom have since become republicans and practically all of whom voted twice for Mckinley,
 Troup was tho Sheridan not 20 miles away--who rallied the wayerlng for Bryan and regularity. The state com mittee was filled up and he was made chairman. Later the state convention appointed him to the national commit tee in place of French. The campa gn that he carried on that year will not be forgotten for q long time yet He collected less than H,0Q0 all told but made It appear like Slo.O0o, He kept the republicans and their Palmer and Buckner adjunct uneasy throughout the campaign, Near it's end he got his committee together and received re- ports 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 a number of the panlc-strck- en democrats of 96 had come ilocking back and Homer Cummings of stam- ford, and of san" Fessenden's law firm. put up job 10 get the member ship of the national committee away from Troup. A resolution was put through the state convention which sent delegates to St. Louis naming Cummings, who disclalmed all knowl- edge of It. When the delegates to the national convention met later they would have dsregarded their lnstruc- tlons and reelected Troup, but he re- fused to permit and Cummings went onto the committee in his place.
 He Supported LiIley.
 Mir. Troup is just as friendly with re- publicans of prominence as with those in his own party indeed, perhaps more So. Congressman Lilley and he are close friends He wrote Lilley to show the Investigating committee his letters on the submarine investigation. Lillel gave out eulogistlc interview on Tafi after returning from Chicago. I'd like to have him say what he thinks o Tarts running mate Troup' says Troup's paper supported lilley when ht first ran for congress, mostly because his opponent was Homer Cummings.
 And now Alexander Troup, at B9 | going to hand over the Union 10 hi! sons, Philip and Alexander, jr. Blu that Is largely matter of form. Alex ander Troup will retire from the ac tivities of life when he dies,
 And he'll always be radical both Ii his views and in their expression. II the first Bryan campaign it was sai' of him that he was free silver maj only because there wasn't any green back party for him to join, There wa also expression Qf the belief that h would be for the free and unlmite coinage of wampum if he could fin' anybody to join with him in the issu ance of clam shells. He's ardent in hi beliefs and likes equally ardent in h. disbeliefs and dislkcs. You may hay scant respect for his judgment, bu you will admire his courage, his loyalt and his persistency. He's great Uncl Alexander.
 
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