Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-05-03
CANDIDATE FOR co. ATTORNEY
Atty. M. A. Nelson, Former De-
corahian, Out for the Nominal
ton in Mower County,
Minnesota.

! The Austin Daily Herald carried
the news last week that Attorney
Martin A. Nelson, of Austin, was a
candidate for county attorney OF
Mower County, MINI. He is bro
Their of County Attorney Nelson, of
DEBORAH, and is one of the progress
sive and leading young lawyers of the
Minnesota bar. The Daily Herald
has the following to say:
Attorney Martin A. Nelson at
o'clock this afternoon filed for the
| office of county attorney, being the
only applicant for the position at this
time.
Mr.. Nelson is the first ex-service
man to seek public office and he
seeks the one that all ambitious at
torneys seek as one of value to them.
Mr.. Nelson is one of the best known
of our younger attorneys and was
the unanimous choice of the city
council for city attorney to succeed
Attorney Lafayette French. But Mr..
Nelson has been urged for some time
to file for county attorney and some
of the jurymen who saw him work
during the last term of court asked
him to become a candidate.
He has told his friends that he
would not file if Lafayette French
wanted the position but the naming
of Mr.. French for the position of
United States District Attorney left
the field clear for Mr.. Nelson.
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1889 on a farm north of DEBORAH,
Iowa, and attended the rural schools,
then the school at Mable, Mimi, the
Mechanic Art School at st. Paul,
graduating in 1912 and graduated
from the st. Paul College Of Law in
1916.
He was assistant attorney for the
Capital Trust and Savings Bank of
st Paul when the war came.
He entered the officers training
school of aviation and was graduated
as pilot in October, 1918.
Upon his discharge from the army
he came to Austin and opened law
office. October, 1919, he became a
partner of Attorney A. w. Wright.
The filing for the office of county
attorney by M. A. Nelson will bring
to the minds of the jurors and the
crowds that attended the last session
of court here, an interesting incident.
1t happened in the trial of an auto
damage case and Nelson sat on one
side of the table and over against
him was the astute f. G.. Sasse. The
ways of court are almost as
mysterious as the ways of provid-
ence. There are a hundred ways
a question might be asked but there
is only one way that it can get past
the objections of the opposing lawyer.
Nelson had asked a witness a ques-
tion and he kept on asking the
question for Sasse met it each time,
with the objection that it was in
competent, immaterial, not proper,
not german and half dozen other
things. Everyone in the court room
was interested. They knew that Sasse
was trying the metal of the younger
attorney. Some attorneys would have
gotten mad but not Nelson. Having
exhausted his knowledge of how to
get the question past the opposition,
and not wishing to put in jeopardy
his case in any particular he asked
the court to allow him time to confer
with his partner, A. w. Wright. Lat
er he got the technicalities and when
recess came he was complimented
by members of the bar, jurymen not
upon the case and others for the
way he won his way through.