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VOLUME 9
ANDREW
That ' the great state of Nebraska
ever secures, for the paltry salary it
pays, the services of a well equipped
attorney, is due more to good fortune
than anything else. With more legal
business than a transcontinental rail
road corporation, constantly in litiga
tion with huge trusts and combines,
and having constantly to deal with
problems of vital interest to the state
government. Nebraska asks from its
attorney general the legal ability to
cope with the princely salaried attor
neys of the big corporations and com
bines and for this ability pays an
nually less than the average corpora
tion attorney gets in a month.
Will Maupin's Weekly asserts again
that it is the state's good fortune and
not its due when it secures a lawyer
of sufficient legal attainments to cope
with the corporation lawyers on their
own grounds. Time was when the
attorney general had little else to do
than to give advice to other state offi
cials upon unimportant details. That
was before the present era set in.
Then the corporations furnished not
only the attorney general and the
other state officials, but also attended
to such little details as enacting the
laws. Now the corporations are being
regulated, and legal questions of vast
moment are constantly arising to de
mand for the taxpayers an attorney
of acknowledged ability. Because this
is the situation today it is well for the
people when an able and successful
attorney, one who has proved his abil
ity and achieved , success, offers his
services. He certainly does not do it
because of the emoluments, for the law
yer in private practice who can not,
with far less work and expenditure of
time, earn more than the state pays
its attorney general, is either a young
practitioner or not much of a success
at the profession.
Thus it is that when a man of the
proved ability and demonstrated suc
cess of Andrew M. Morrissey offers
himself and his services to the state,
the state should be quick to avail it
self of the opportunity. Mr. Morrissey
has filed for the democratic nomination
for attorney general, and has also
been filed as a nominee of the people's
independent party, and it is fitting
that the people be made acquainted
with the facts about this gentleman.
Andrew M. Morrissey was born in
the state of New York, and came to
Nebraska in 1892, locating at Chad
ron. He studied law and was admitted
to practice in the supreme court in
1897, and later admitted to practice in
the federal courts. The attorneys of
the new northwest found many
huge and perplexing problems con
fronting them problems in which they
were compelled to face the opposition
of the famous lawyers representing
big trusts and corporations. Land
cases of vast importance; cases involv-
ing corporations, cases having to do
with immense interests such were the
tasks confronting the attorneys in that
new and rapidly developing country.
Northwestern Nebraska has produced
some lawyers and jurists of command
ing ability. It was not long after Mr.
Morrissey 's admission to the bar that
it began to be bruited abroad that a
young attorney of northwestern Ne
braska was coping with the big men
from the east and more than holding
his own. That reputation has grown
and strengthened with the years, and
today Mr. Morrissey is admittedly one
of the strong members of the bar of
M. MORRISSEY FOR ATTORNEY
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V 1 V
ANDREW M. MORRISSEY
Democratic and Peoples Independent Candidate
lor the nonimation for
Attorney General of Nebraska
this state. A few years after admis
sion to the bar, Mr. Morrissey removed
to Valentine, Cherry county, in order
to be nearer the land office. He was
elected county attorney of Cherry
county, overcoming a heavy republican
majority. Two years later he was re
elected by an increased majority, and
declined a third term, although ten
dered the nomination bythe democrats
and assured by the republicans that
they would not nominate a candidate
against him. During his two terms of
service as county attorney he acted
for the county in some cases of far
Nebraska and
Her Resources
Her History and
Possibilties
Chalk Talk Lecta e
BY
Will M. Maupm
LIXCOLJ, NEBRASKA, APRIL. 5,
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reaching importance, and his success
attracted widespread attention. Re
tiring to private practice he soon built
up a wide clientage, and his services
were in demand over a wide expanse
of territory. He has tried cases in
every county in northwest Nebraska,
in South Dakota and eastern Wyom
ing, with a record of successful litiga
tion not often achieved by an attorney.
In 1908 Mr. Morrissey was unani
mously elected as one of the delegates
from the Sixth congressional district
to the Denver convention, an honor
that is an evidence of his popularity
1912
in the northwestern part of the state.
Another evidence of his popularity is
that every time he has been a candi
date for public office he carried his
home county of Cherry and his home
town of Valentine, although both are
normally republican.
About a year ago Mr. Morrissey re
moved to Lincoln,- this city offering a
wider field without in any wise cur- ;
tailing his opportunities to continue
the splendid business he had built up
in the northwest. But Mr. Morrissey
did not locate among strangers when
he located in Lincoln. Here live many
men for whom he acted in important
cases in his old home. Here he found
hundreds of men who had met him v
and learned to admire his splendid
ability democrats who had served
with him dn conventions in the bid ,
days, business men he had served, and
men who had learned his ability by
reason of having him pitted against
them in lawsuits.
One has but to inquire of the judges
and attorneys of northwestern Nebras
ka to be informed that in Andrew M.
Morrissey the state would have an at
torney general who would give it
splendid service far and away better
than it is entitled to for the remunera-.
tion it offers. But men of Mr.- Mor
rissey 's legal attainments who offer
their services ' to the state do not do
so because of the emoluments of the
office; they do it because they see an
opportunity to serve their fellows and
reap the reward of honor for duty well
performed. ,
Will Maupin's Weekly has been
proud of an intimate acquaintance
with Mr. Morrissey for more than a
dozen years. It knows something about
his ability because it has heard it
spoken of many a time by attorneys
whose recommendation is worth con
siderably more than par. It has heard
him commended by men who have oc
cupied the district bench, and by men
who now occupy it. It knows some
thing of his ability by reason of hav
ing given some time to a study of ,the
records of cases in which he has ap
peared. For this reason, and because
of his splendid democracy, his tireless
services dn behalf of the party, and,
more than all else, because of the op
portunity that is afforded Nebraska to
secure the services of such a man, Will
Maupin's Weekly ' takes this oppor
tunity of recommending Andrew M.
Morrissey to the 'democrats of Ne
braska for. the nomination for attorney
general.
A lecture that will inspire love
of the state. Peculiarly adapted
for school and college meetings.
Should be 'delivered under the
auspices of commercial clubs every
where in the state. Full of facts
and figures about Nebraska pre
sented in an interesting and novel
way. For terms and dates address
Will M. Maupin, Room 436
Bankers Life Building
Lincoln, Nebraska
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NUMBER 2
GENERAL
It is true that Mr. Morrissey is, so
far as actual residence is concerned, a
newcomer in Lancaster county. -In
fact, however, his business has called
him there so often during the last six
or eight years that he seems almost
one of the old residents. There is ev
ery reason why Mr. Morrissey should
be nominated by an overwhelming ma
pority at the primaries on April 19.
Mr. Morrissey is making a quiet and
dignified campaign for the nomination.
He did not become a candidate because
he sought the place, although he frank
ly admitted to friends who first spoke
to him about it that he would appre
ciate the honor and if nominated and
elected would strive to merit it. In his
campaign he is having the active as
sistance of a host of friends, and
there are many members of his own
profession who differ from him in
pplitics who lose no opportunity to as
sure the people that Mr. Morrissey pos
sesses all the qualifications that the at
torney general of such a great state as
Nebraska should have. .
THE EDITORS ARE COMING.
The Nebraska Editorial Association
will meet in Lincoln on June 3, . 4 and
.5, and arrangements are: already under
way to give them the time of their '
lives. Secretary Johns is attending to
the matter of arranging a program
that will take care, of the professional
side of the convention, and Secretary
Whitten of the Commercial Club, as-"
sisted by other enterprising gentlemen,
is attending to the social features.
Having had something to. do . with
former efforts at entertaining the as
sociation in Lincoln, and knowing what
the present committee can do, we
are prepared to promise the visiting
brethren and sisters that they are in
for one of those times worthy of be-'
ing embalmed in history. : The Ne
braska editor who fails to attend the
1912 meeting of the Nebraska Press
Association is in for a lifetime'' of re
grets. Come on over and let us make
you feel at home.
MICHAEL BAUER. V
Democrats of Lancaster county al
ways know where to find Mike Bauer.
Mike always stands hitched.- And he
is always ready to serve his party, re
gardess of his personal wishes.. The.
other day a lot of democrats filed
Mike's name as one of the democratic
candidates for the legislature,, know
ing . that Mike would accept because
the party wanted him. Mike is sick in
bed, and has been for weeks.. But
that will .not affect his candidacy. He
has a host of friends taking1 care of
that. For .several years he represented
, his ward in ,the city council, and did
it well. He would give just that same
sort of faithful and efficient service to .
the county if elected. to the legislature.
ALWAYS MAKES FRIENDS.
That man, Morehead, if nominated,
will get as many republican votes as
Aldrich got democratic votes. He is
making friends all over the state.
Fremont Herald. ' , v
AXIOMATIC.
The difference between a democrat
and a republican. is this: A republican
will not speak until he hears from the
leaders. A democrat will let the lead
ers hear from him. Fairbury Journal.