Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-05-08
WILSON LEADER
PRAISES CONNOLLY
Mitchell Palmer Says Administra.
ton Favors His Candidacy.
STOOD BY THE PRESIDENT
Third Diftrlet Congressman 10 Re-
markedly Equipped a. Scholar,
Orator and Man Of the People
for y. S. Senator.

Congressman Maurice Connolly o.
Dubuque, who is a candidate In tn
primary, June l next, for the Demo
cratic nomination for United States
senator is thirty-seven years of age
Winston Churchill of the British cabi
net and Senator Shepard Of Texas are
the same age and Senator Lea OF Ten
inessee is thirty-six. Mayor Mitchell Of
New York is thirty-three.
Congressman Connolly has beer
educated in the universities Of THU
country and abroad. He Is q graduate
of Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y.
and Of the New York University Of
Law. He was admitted to the bar Of
Iowa, but never practtsed, going in for
business. He studied in Balliol col
lege. Oxford. England-the alma ma
ter of the greatest of Brttain's states.
men. He spent a year also. In Heidel.
berg university, Germany, and speaks
German, French and several other for
eign languages as f1uently as he
speaks English. ,.
Suggestive of Congressman Connoa'
ly's standing among men Of large af.
fairs is his selection by the board of
regents of the Smithsonian institute to
membership in the executive commit
tee of that national institution.
Among the members Of the board of
regents are Chief Justice White of the
United States Supreme court, SenA-
tors Lodge and Stone, former Ambas-
sador Andrew D. White, and Alexan.
der Graham Bell, inventor of the tele-
phone. The executive committee com
prises Heterogeneous Connolly,
Alexander Graham Bell, and there is .
vacancy, created by the death of Sen
ator Bacon.
Mr.. Connolly's standing at home 10
reflected in the vote given him for
congress in 1912. The Third Iowa
district was gerrymandered 30 years
ago to make the election Of Demo
crat impossible, and the combination
worked. The counties are in the form
Of q monkey-wrench, but Connolly
turned the nut and was, elected BY
1927 plurality. His home county of
Dubuque gave him about 5000 plural
ity, or 1900 more than it had ever b.
fore given q Democrat.
Connolly won In the Third district.
not because = Bull Moose candidate
was in the field, for he; didn't get votes
enough, but because of himself. He
10 a remarkably magnetic orator, in
which art he is highly trained. -
Congressman Connolly is all energy.
He knows how to get things done and
how to get powerful friends to help
him. He got more in good roads ap.
preparation for his district than did all
the states-not districts-in the I'm.
ion, except two. There never was q
man in congress more vigilantly
watchful of his constituents interests.
His conception is that public onncial
is a public servant, obligated to ad'
vance his constituents interests q
every opportunity, to reflect their
views in his votes. and to keep hin
pledges.
Palmer Praises Connolly.
Congressman Connolly pledged the
people of his district that he would.
If elected, stand by the president.
This he has done as party duty. ~
moral obligation, and from convic'
ton that the president is right. One
of the highest tributes paid Mr.. Con.
molly is that from Representative A