Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-10-02
MADE in IOWA.
That's Maurice Connolly, Wilson
Candidate for Congress in the
Bird Iowa District ~

SoINIAoAC 'lOI SOIsSISSS III tII1C /
3rd Iowa District.
(From the Waterloo Tlmes-Trlbune).
He's like Wilson in three things:
Re is new to politics, he is scholar,
and he thinks it high time the peo-
pie were saying to the gentlemen
who look upon government as insti-
t'lted for their use and benefit,
You're through; get out!
Maurice Connolly Is of the age a
man must he to be president
ty-five., Before he was twenty-one he
had two university degrees; one,
Bachelor of Arts, from Cornell Uni
versity, the other, Bachelor Of Laws,
from the famous New York law
school That's going some, to fin
ish the preparatory schools and grad
nate from university and law
school before you're 81.
Maurice Connolly's father was tho
late Tom Connolly, who made better
carriages than any other man in the
business. He gave his only son un-
limited opportunities for study and
travel Now, not every son whose
father puts up the money for him
turns out we'll. Very often he goes
to the bad Not Maurice Connolly,
however. For all the educational
advantages given him his father i'm
pressed upon him the value of dol
lar. And the value Of going straight
through life, despising to do mean,
tricky and dishonorable things. And
above all his father impressed on him
the dignity of toll, by putting Maur-
ice at work in the factory during va
cation seasons. To-day Maurice Con-
molly can build a carriage from whip
socket to the coat of varnish. And
he can get along with men-he got
that knack too from his father In
the forty years history of the Con-
molly carriage factory, there never
was strike or q lockout, or labor
trouble of any kind. And wherever
you find them, the old employees Of
he Connolly Carriage Company are
costing for the son Of his father.
Maurice Connolly had narrow es-
cape from being a lawyer. He was
educated for the bar but fate inter
vened. OF that later. At Cornell he
was editor of the ERA" but one day
he saw lot of editors together, took
s:rutinizing glance at them and
wisely concluded he didn't want to be
an editor. He was the O'Connell Of
the University, prize orator on sundry
occasions, and in 1897 President
Schurman, casting about for an un.
der-graduate to speak for the college
at Union League New York; cele-
bration on Washington's birthday an
niversary, selected Connolly from
among several thousand pupils. "Ah.
Terrance," says one Of Kiplings
characters, what tongue you
have!' And after Kipling-or be
fore him, but after Connolly finished
his grafton at any rate-the Union
League diners observed that Maur-
ice, too, had some tongue.
Out of the New York law school
Maurice Connolly came Bachelor of
Laws cum laude-a bachelor of laws
with praise, the highest possible de-
gree. Back then to Iowa he came and
was admitted to the bar. This in his
21st year.
Where then? Where should a young
man who had acquired education
enough to know that he needed a lot
more, and who knew that he is the
most profound lawyer who is best
versed in English ANYWHERE should
he go? Balliol College, you're right;
renowned Balliol, whence have come
the most famous figures in English
public life in the last century.
Uater we'll say that one man
famous in American public life came
from, Balliol, but that's getting ahead
Of our story.) Here Maurice Connolly
pursued his postgraduate work and
that finished he needed the call of
Heidelberg Heidelburg, dear