Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28
Congressman Connolly for Senator

congressman connolly Tor Senator
The New Hampton Tribune, Dem.
I seconds the suggestion of Congress
man Connolly of Dubuque for Unite
States senator az "a mighty good
one. "No man." it continues, lis bet
ter fitted to reflect credit upon tn
state.
Congressman Connolly is a new
broom and new brooms proverbia!l,
sweep clean. He would go into tn,
contest with no personal or facti ona
enemies to sap his strength-a ire
mendous factor in itself, considering
that fractional enmities have lost the
party more than one victory in the past
Congressman Connolly came into
politics and public life last year. That
is not against him. Woodrow Wilson
did not enter politics until the year he
was elected Governor of New Jersey,
and he had been in public life less than
two years when he was nominated for
the presidency
Congressman Connolly would carry
youth, enthusiasm, vigor, sincerity
and eloquence in9o the campaign. He
would enttuse. He would make an
aggressive fight. There is no better
tinker" in the state than he. none
with the faculty of remembering names
and faces better developed, ard few
with it as we'll developed as he has it.
He is thirty-seven years of age. Mr..
Bryan was under that age when he
first became his party's standard beaer
for President. Winston Churchill of
the British cabinet is just thirty-seven.
DudlY Field Malone, nominated for the
important post of Collector of the port
of New York, is 30. John Purroy
Mitchell, mayor-elect of New York
City, is IS. Joseph P. Tumulty, Sec
rotary to President Wilson is IS.
Senator Lee Of Tennessee, is Sc. and
Senator Shepard of Texas 81.
What his home folks think of Con-
gresham Connolly is attested in the
plurality of approximately 5000 given
him for Congress in Dubuque county.
He-not the Bull Moose, made gerry
wandered district Republican forithirty
years, Democratic. The faith he
pledged is his campaign he has kept.
His record in Congress is one of IN
swerving loyalty to the President. and
he has proven himself of 80 much val
ne to the Administration that at
Waterloo recently Secretary Bryan
urged the district to return him to
Congress. His public record, confined
as it is to single session of Congress,
has no points OF attack. and contains
nothing any faction or group in the
party can object to. That is one of
his chief assets and its value is en-
HANGED when one asks of whom else
this is true.
A Senator of the United States should
sbe man of culture. Congressman
Connolly has been educated in Ameri-
can and foreign universities. He should
be man whose face is turned to the
future, who interprets Alright the as.
piration Of the people for larger op.
portunity, freer business, more equal
ity. Congressman Connolly is such a
man. He should be one who, for pres
tige Of the state, would stand on a !
plane equal with other Senators. In a |
few months Congressman Connolly has
made himself one of the most respect.
ed members of the House Of Repre-
sentatives. What he achieved there
he could achieve in the Senate.
Political wisdom is in nominating for
senator man with whom the party
can travel the path Of least resistance.
The more or thinks about it. the stron-
ger grows the conviction the Congress-
man Connolly is such man.-Dubuque
Telegraph Herald.