The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-16
OUR BRYAN LEADER
Alexander Troup the Ever Faithful One in This
 State.
HE WANTS NO POSITION
Man Who Would Run and Not Be Directed by u Department. He
 Was Head of,

When a man has been the editor of one newspaper for forty years and then hands the rens over to two sons, whom he has trained in the profession that calls for some notice, but when the same man has been leading fig uro in the democratic party, both in the state of Connecticut and national ly during most of those years, as has Alexander Troup of the New Haven Union. and Is to-day one of the most intimate and in some ways the closest personal friend of William I. Bryan,
 Such success as Mir. Bryan has won in New England, or ever .loes win, his friend Troup is mainly responsible for, and he is about the only man close to Bryan who doesn't want anything if the NehraslSan is elected.
 No" said MT. Troup 10 an inter- thing, and don't want anything. There's nothing in that at all"
 Even so.' urged friend. It's but natural that Bryan should want about him the men who have stood by and with hlm most closely if he should enter the White House. Indeed, it would be an ungrateful thing for him to pass you by"
 Tt wouldn't be a question of that at all. l want to live out the rest of my life comfortably: Two done consId- erable work tn my time, and l should certainly have to do lot more In the cabinet"
 "oh, well, those departments in Washington run themselves"
 Mine wouldn't, ir I had one. I'd run It."
 For forty years Mr. Troup has been a militant force in Connecticut jour- nalism, in Connecticut democracy, In municipal affairs in the city of New Haven, and latterly in national demo- cratic concerns. Of pure Scotch an cestry,tempered by a transplanting into Nova Scotia, he Is as sturdlly inde- pendent as he is straightforward, and honest He can't abide a grafter or a crooked politician, and he can't abide a lot of other things. If you're not with Troup you're against him. And he says so. That is why he has been at odds with democratic leaders in city and state most of the time.
 A year and a half ago Mir. Troup would have done everything in his power to keep Bryan from the presi- dental nomination, for at that time he thought that President Roosevelt was trying to manipulate matters sc as to be nominated again, and he be. lieved Bryan wouldn't have chance against him. Against Taft he thinks | Bryan has a chance, for he believes good many republican votes will he alienated by the formers nomination When Bryan returned from his trlr around the world Troup labored with him to give up politics for good, but when the latter couldn't see 1t tho i New Haven editor saw to the estab. lishment of the Bryan press bureau al Washington, with Willis J. Abbott al Its head, and his son. Philip Troup looking after the financial end. Since l then he has been working hard fol | MT. Bryan's nomination.
 Bryan sent several messages iron the midst of conference and counsel! in Washington last winter by Connec < ticut men returning home. "Tel | 'Troup l love him and know he is m, honest friend was the burden O them. Mir. Troup was a delegate-at large from Connecticut to the Denve convention, but he went west befor the other delegates to Lincoln. wher he stayed with Bryan till the con venticn.
 Troup and Cleveland.
 One goes back few years for
 glimpse of the real Troup, a very in structive glimpse, which concern Grover Cleveland, In the first Clevr land campaign in S4, and about tha time Troup was right hand man { United States Senator William I Barnum, the democrat, wh) ju. about run Connecticut for some year and after President Cleveland WE inaugurated he appointed Troup IT ternal Revenue Collector for the di. trict of Connecticut, which includ, Connecticut and Rhode Island, TT appointment had little of civil servi, reform on the face of 1t, and mao | Ia.