Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-28
THOMAS MORRIS IS
THE LOGICAL man
ONLY PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN,
CANDIDATES; NEITHER WITH
ALDRICH NOR WITH PERKINS.
HOLDS PRINCIPLE BEFORE Sell
Has Taken Leading Part for Wise
Progressive Laws in Wisconsin,
Understands National Issues.
AN EXPERIENCED LEGISLATOR

Like many self-made men, Tom Nor
ris was born on farm. His father
was poor, and in his early years Tom
was barber. He had received com
mon school and academic education,
however, and worked his way through
the University of Wisconsin Law
School. For the last quarter of cen.
fury he has practiced law at La
Crosse. He is now fifty-two years OF
age, and has been district attorney.
state senator, state normal school re.
gent, and acknowledgements, and is
the progressive republican candidate
for United States senator.
Whether seen in the midst Of his
family, in the thick of a legislative
fight, or the heat of a political cam
paign, Tom Morris moves you by his
forceful sincerity.
Loyal to Principle and aubfic trust.
The supreme qualification for rep
resentative of the people Is loyalty;
above all things he must be true to
the trust reposed in him, faithful in
carrying out the expressed will Of his
constituents, trustworthy and unwav-
ering in his relations with his col
leagues and associates. This qualifi-
cation Mr. Morris has in the highest
degree; no man has ever charged him
with lack of fidelity to principle or
with disloyalty to his constituents or
his friends.
In public life he is unassuming, even.
tempered, judicious, self-sacriflcing,
making Service his watchword. When
ever a choice is presented between adj
vancing his own interests and helping
to forward progressive principles, Nor
ris never fails to throw himself and
his all, without personal recompense,
into the service of the peoples cause.
1t is notable that while he has devoted
ten years to the service Of the state,
he has never held remunerative
state office.
An Unusually Able Public Servant.
BY reason of peculiarly unusual
ability as a public servant, he has
been steadily advanced in the public
service. In 1898 he was elected dis
trict attorney of La Crosse County and
was reelected in 1900. In 1904 he was
elected q member of the state senate,
and was reelected in 1908. In 1910
he was elected lieutenant governor, to
which office he was again elected in
| 1919 During these years he also
served as a member of the board OF
| normal regents, his term of service
extending from 1905 to 1918; for two
terms he was president of the board.
His good Judgment, his patience In
| reconciling differences of opinion, and
his ability to retain the respect Of his
political opponents, because of his
fairness and unfailing courtesy, have
made possible the enactment Of much
legislation that seemed doomed to de-
feat. In party council and convention
formulating the issues, on the plat
form advocating them before the peo-
pie, in the senate enacting them into
law, he has been pre-eminently sue
cessful In advancing progressive prin-
ciples and wise laws.
An Experienced Legislator.
The Office to which he now aspires
is a legislative Office. His experience
at Madison during the past ten years
as q member and as presiding officer
Of the state senate has given him spe'
cial fitness for tbs work of the larger
legislative field at Washington. He