THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1916.
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NEW DEMOCRATIC
Remarkable Story of the Rapid
Rise of Art Mullen to His
Present Position of Pull
and Power in
. Politics.
(Continued from PftffB One.) . '
republican governor succeeded Shal
lenberger, and a republican attorney
general was duly elected, there was
no "beefing" for Mullen. He is the
true sportsman-politician who makes
the mo it ot every situation, tie naa
grown too big for O'Neill and it
would not do fojr him to waste him
self on its narrow legal field, i He
transplanted himself to Omaha and
struck out boldly for the big business
of the big lawyer, the big corporation
retainers as well as the contingent
political pots. In the interval, how
ever, he had not let go of his hold on
the public treasury altogether. Be
fore the exit of Governor Shallenber
ger he had induced him to commence
ouster proceedings against Chief of
Police Donahue of Omaha. There
was nothing to the fake charges and
they fizzled in the end, but they
served to make some fat fees for
Mullen's friends and Mullen himself
. secured his own retention as prose
cutor as alone familiar with the case
and pulled down for himself a good
wad of money oujf of the state treas-
nry as a hang-over from his little
while in the attorney general's office.
How Mullen "Spanked" Bryan.
"Boss" Mullen'" next appearance in
the spotlight was at the famous
Grand Island convention, where he
helped the Dahlmanites and liquor
bunch to spank Bryan and numiuate
the former democratic presidential
standard bearer by rejecting the plat
form plank he was urging. Mullen
had more to do with this deal than
most outsiders are aware of, and he
has always regarded it as a great
feather in his cap and as clearing the
path for his later political advance-
, ment. -, , - .
Feelins his oats now, Mullen
jumped into the national game, as
the leader in charge ot the Champ
Clark forces contending for the Ne
braska delegation in the 1912 prima
ries. Here Mullen did a lot of clever
. work and on the presidential prefer
ence vote Clark led both Harmon and
Wilson. But, alas, he could not hold
Bryan, who had been elected dele-gate-at-large
and who distrusted
Clark as much on account of the
Mullen leadership out here as for his
-Tammany alliances In New York. The
defeat of Champ Clark at Baltimore
put Mullen temporarily in the dis
card and raised Bryan again as an
. istacle in his pathway. Had Clark
been nominated and elected, Arthur
Mullen would have, been the "big
boss" four years ago and no Bryan
or Bryanite would have approached
anywhere near the political pie coun
ter. ... . . )
Mullen' Pull With Morehead.
The salve for. this sad disappoint
ment was, however, not entirely want
ing, for the democrats had succeeded
in elccting,'rtreir governor-and, Mullen
at once - succeeded id making Govern
, nor Morehead believe it was due to
ll im that he occupied the executive
office and that he must adopt Mullen
as his political adviser as had Gover
nor Shallenberger before him. Mullen
now wanted no little state appointive
job for himself;, he was too big for
that. But, of course, he had a few
friends to be taken care of and would
have i a few others irons in the fire
with which the governor could help
him from time to time..
Hi first demand was for the ap
pointment of one of hit pals, Andrew
M. Morrissey, who had once law
shingle out in madron, to be private
secretary, and this requisition was
honored. Let it be remembered that
"the private secretary" is the near
est man to the governor, -always at
his tide and in most strategic posi
tion to influence him. From this time
on Morrissey and Mullen engaged in
team work, "Art and Andy and
Governor "Morehead came across
whenever they pulled the string.
Teamwork of "Art and Andy."
The success of the Mulltn methods
can best- be illustrated by what it has
accomplished for his friend Morris
sey Finding that two years' service
as private secretary had left htm de
cidedly rusty "in his law, Morrissey,
with Mullen s help, secured for him
self an appointment as deputy attor
ney general, though at a lower sal
ary; The private secretaryship paid
&,000, as against $1,800 for the
deputyship- But here fate again fav
ored, for-before ten days had expir
ed, Chief Justice Hollenbeck suddenly
died leaving a $4,500 judgethip va
cancy to be filled by the governor.
Such an opportunity must not be lost
nor must the jump be made too crude
ly; Here is where Mullen's deftness
. came into play. - Governor Morehead
was prevailed on to offer the place
first to former Chief Justice John J.
Sullivan, who Mullen knew would
not accept, and then after making
. this offer for gallery consumption, he
turned about and invested with the
-obe of chief justice his former private
secretary, the now $1,600 deputy attorney-general,
who had not even
made a pretense of practicing law for
ever two yeart. Such was Mullen's'
TOtt-er and pull,
v Neat Judicial Double-Shuffle.
To go back a little, the creation of
: board 'of control to take charge of
Nebraska's state institutions gave
Mullen another chance for some other
me Italian political handiwork. The
w required that one of the three
'a-ea be given to the minority party
id Governor Morclirad's tirst selec
o'n s were blocked in the state senate,
.liiclf had the power of confirmation,
.i the meantime the seven judges of
,ie district court here in Omaha,
here Mullen wat now practicing law
sil politics, were all republicans,
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BOSS OF NEBRASKA
which inspired Mullen with a bril
liant idea. He procured the with
drawal by Governor Morehead of the
name of the up-state republican who
had been appointed and transferred
the board of control job to one of the
republican judges of the district court
here and the vacancy thus created
Mullen delivered to a fellow democrat,
James P. English, backed by the dem
ocratic, group with which Mullen
trained. What mattered it that Gov
ernor Morehead had oromised consid
eration of, other Omaha democratic
lawyers for the first vacancy on the
district bench r it was a Mullen
coup by which he traded in for the
governor the one personal appoint
ment of the three on the board of
control and at the same time landed
two places for himself.
Breaka in on Tail-Feed Graft.
In the meantime "Boss" Mullen had
allied himself with Omaha's demo
cratic sheriff and discovered or in
vented the plan by which the jail
feeding graft was to be revived. By
Mullen's advice this democratic sher
iff began putting in bills charging SO
cents a day for prisoner's meals that
had formerly cost the county only
19 cents a day and the common under
standing was that Mullen was to
have a split" on the excess he might
collect. He fought this job clear
through the courts until the supreme
court knocked the bottom out of the
claim and then compromised with the
county board for 32 cents per dav.
How big a fee Mullen pulled out oi
this is not known, but he was not sat
isfied even with that, for he went
down to the legislature immediately
thereafter and undertook to lobby
through an amendment to the law that
would have given the jail feed graft
ers SO cents per prisoner per day. As
the number of prisoners in the county
jail was averaging over u, ine uuic
difference in favor of Mullen and his
partner would have run around $40 a
day. or $15,000 a year. With all hit
resourcefulness, Mullen fell down in
the legislature, yet saved his face by
getting a law through validating the
32 cents a day, which is still going
tome, compared with the actual cost
which it known to have been less
than 12 cents a day,
"Delivers" Veto for Electric Light
Looking after the jail-feeding graft,
however, did not consume all of
"Boss" Mullen's time as a lobbyist at
Lincoln, ine umaha fclectric Light
company, which pays big law fees,
was interested in defeating a public
ownership measure. Whether the
light company hunted Mullen out or
Mullen hunted the company out, the
Mullen influence with the democratic
members wat tpbn being powerfully
exerted against the bill. Despite his
efforts, the bill got through both
nouses. And here is where the Mul
len ' influence over Governor More
head again proved valuable. The bill
couldl yet be killed by a veto and
"Boss' Mullen delivered the veto, and
if he did not collect n good, big, fat
fee for hit tervicts it wat his own
fault -
Bank Charters While You Wait.
Still another illustration showing
Mullen't venatility in cashing in on
a political pull came to light recently
in the action . of the state banking
board granting a bank charter on one
application from Omaha and denying
another- application previously filed
on the pretense that- there were
enough banks, ,in: Omaha. er the
charter that was granted "Boss" Mul
len appeared is attorney and cleverly
worked the game to that the new
charter came in the guise of the trans
fer of a long since relinquished char
ter and the transfer with it of a credit
of some $6,000 in the deposit guaranty
una wmcn rightfully should belong
to the state. ' On the other hand, it
has just been made known, by sworn
testimony in a court proceeding, that
the applicants for the rejected bank
charter were solicited ,to emplo) Mul
len and that he wanted $2,500 to take
tneir case and get a charter for them.
Putt Bryan Off the Map. '
What has made Mullen the "W
boss of the democratic party, how
ever, is nis juccesatui conduct ot the
campaign to prevent William Jen
nings Bryan from heading the demo
cratic delegation to the last national
convention. He formed a combina
tion against Bryan annexing Senator
Hitchcock and his newspaper with his
hatred of Bryan. The federal pie
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brigade, Governor Morehead't ttate
house machine, and all the old ene
mies of Bryan, particularly the liquor
interests who foresaw Bryan's advo
cacy of the prohibition amendment,
and wanted to repeat what' they had
done to him at Grand island. During
the primary campaign Bryan de
nounced Mullen, who had taken it on
himself to stand 'for democratic na
tional committeeman, as the tool of
the corporations and liquor interests.
But the Mullen brigade was too well
organized and too strongly financed
for the Bryanites to overcome. The
triumph'of Mullen, by the defeat of
both Bryans', enabled him to realize
his horoscope of himself standing Colossus-like
with all the perquisites of
the party at his command, and with
his foot on the neck of the once cher
ished Commoner. He even had him
self "mentioned" at possible chair
man of the democratic national com
mittee and silk-hatted made the trip
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speech of acceptance and take lunch
with the president. '
Is it any wonder then that the new
"boss" of the democratic party, Ar
thur Mullen, former county attorney
of Holt county, former head oil in
spector, former attorney general, advisor-in-chief
to two governors, de
liverer of veto messages, dispenser of
appointments to judicial vacancies,
patronage monger in general, master
lobbyist, and, above all, the man who
knocked William Jennings Bryan over
the ropes, should have had the only
official acceptance when the president
visited Nebraska?
If he wins again, this time, with
governor and senator and congress
man to take his orders, and the White
House to listen to his advice, what
possibilities are not before him?
HUGHES WOULD
SURRENDER NOT
ONE 0F. RIGHTS
(Continued from Page One.)
perity," Mr. Hughes was saying when
the heckler interrupted him, "is to
be found not simply in patriotic sen
timent uniting our citizens. The
foundation must be found in sound
governmental policies. We have in
this world of the twentieth century!
great opportunities and great dan
gers. It is a new world. These na
tions of the other side, after the
European war, are going to have an
extraordinary efficiency, a great or
ganization, great powers, great dis
ciDline. alert manhood. Thev have
had their wastes, they have had their1!
rnioiortunes, out oeninu an inose se
rious consequences of war must be
observed the advantages of a tre
mendous driving power, perfecting or
ganization and increasing the effici
ency of men and women. They have
learned to co-operate; they have
learned to work together. It is no
time to talk to the American people
that America by its ability is safe; it
is not safe unless it uses those gov
ernmental powers to protect itt con
cerns." The heckler then asked his ques
tion. After replying, Mr. Hughes con
tinued: , , . , . ; ,y.
"In all these matters we are look
ing Tar to the future. We must con
sider our place as a great nation de
voted to the, interests of peace. When
these crises arise we are trustees,
really guardians of our future. We
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be involved in difficulties when
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We need an American four square to
the world, commending itself by the
firmness and consistency of its polic
ies, vindicating, as 1 have said, the
principles of international law 'and
showing itself as to all, the cham
pion of the rights of neutrality."
Two Dayt In Indiana.
After his speech here, Mr. Hughes
and hit party departed for Bedford,
his second stop. There he will spend
half an hour. At Washington, where
the nominee is to speak late today, he
will remain an hour before leaving at
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spend the night at Evansville.
Mr. Hughes' presence in Indiana
today and tomorrow marks his last
appearance in the middle west before
election. His program tomorrow calls
for speeches at Sullivan, Linton,
Bloomington, Brazil and Terre Haute.
He will leave Terra Haute at 9
o'clock to continue his campaign in
New York ttate.
Neighborhood Bible Class
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Mrs. J. R. Hopkins of Council
Bluffs it the new chairwoman of
the Neighborhood Bible class. She
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Young Men's Chrittian association
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Foote read two chapters of Genesis.
Thorne
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