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4 Remarkable Story of the Rapid Rise of Art Mullen to His Present Position of Pull and Power in Politics. (Continued from Page One.) republican governor succeeded Shal- lenberger, and a republican attorney general was duly eiected, there was no “beefing” for Mullen. He is the true sportsman-politician who makes the most of every situation. He had grown too big for O'Neill and it would not do fgr him to waste him- self on its narrow legal field. « He transplanted himself to Omaha and by struck out boldly for the big business of the big lawyer. the big corporation i retainers as well as the contingent & political pots. In the interval, how- 4 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 ouf of the state treas- ury as a hang-over from his little- e while in the attorney general’s office. How Mullen “Spanked” Bryan. “Boss” Mullen's next appearance in the spotlight was at the famous Gnmr Island_convention, where he helped the Dahlmanites and liguor bunch to spank Bryan and humiliate i the former democratic presidential o5 standard bearer by rejectig 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. Feeling his oats now, Mullen jumped into the national game, as the leader in charge of the Champ k 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- te-at-large and who distrusted &rk as much on account of the \ Mullen leadership out here as for his +~Tammany alliances in New York. The { Champ Clark at Baltimore ! . & & 38 g defeat of t 1 put Mullen temporarily in the dis- - rard and raised Bryan again as an . ystacle in his pathway. Had Clark _been nominated and elected, Arthur Mullen wouldl have been the ‘“big boss” four years ago and no Bryan or Bryanite would have approached ‘anywhere near the political pie coun- ter. Mullen’s Pull With Morehead. The salve for this sad disappoint- iment was, however, not entirely want- ing, for the democrats succeeded in‘electifl ; nm Mullen at once " G or Morehead believe it M{‘ Hm; him that he occupied the executive office and that he must adopt M his political adviser as had nor Shallenberger before him. M w wanted: o little state appointive : 3 he was too big for . But, of course, he had a few taken care of and would _irons in thi e fire or could hel, him from time to x:e.. A - His first demand was for the ap- “the private secrefary” is the near- ‘est man to the g¢vernor, -always at ‘side and in most strategic posi- to influence him. From this time on Morrissey and Mullen enr’ed in work, “Art and Andy” and vernor Morehead came ~ across whenever they pulled the string. ‘Teamwork of “Art and Andy.” i e success of the Mullen. methods can best be illustrated by what it has 3 mghnhed for his friend Morris- . Finding that two years' service as private secretary had left him de- d“dlfi rusty fin_his' law, Morrissey, with Mullen’s help, secured for him- self an appointment as deputy attor- ney general, though at a lower sal- i 8 . The private secret i 000, as against §$ deputyship- But here fate again fav- ol for before ten days had expir- 4 z&dhid ustice Hollenbeck suddenly ~ died leaving a $4,500 judgeship va- capcy to be filled by the governor. Such an og,po.rtumt 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 fihce fil“:. 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 of chief justice his former private ¢ etary, the now $1800 deputy at- _ torney ‘general, who had not even . inade a pretense of practicing law for ‘over two years. Such was Mullen's [ cower and pull. ' Neat Judicial Double-Shuffle. To go back a little, the creation of : board ‘of control to take charge of Nebraska's state institutions gave ullen another chance for some other Italian political handiwork. The required that one of the three be given to the niinority party Governor Morehead's first selec- s were blocked in the state senate iclf had the power of confirmation, 4 the meantime the seven judges of e district court here in Omaha, fiere Mullen was now practicin ~ad politics, were all republicans, ERE'S A NEW WAY TO RELIEVE ACHING FEET | “ - NEW DEMOCRATIC 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 ofpcomrol 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 promised consid- eration of. other Omaha democratic’ lawyers for the first vacancy on the district bench? 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. Breaks in on Jail-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 50 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 day. How big a fee Mullen pulled out of 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 50 cents per prisoner per day. As the number of prisoners inthe county jail was averaging over 250, the little difference in favor of Mullen and his n | enough banks. in r- | charter that was granted “Boss” Mul- law partner would have run around $40 a day, or $15,000 a year. With all his resourcefulness, Mullen fell down in the legislature, yet saved his face by gttting a law through validating the 2 cents a day, which is still going some, compared with the actual cost which is 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. The Omaha Electric Light company, which pays big law fees, was interested in defeating a public ownership measure. Whether the light company hunted Mullen out or ullen hunted the company out, the Mullen influence with the democratic members was spbn being powerfully exerted against the bill. ‘Despite his efforts, the bill got through both houses. And here is where the Mul- len' influence over Governor More- head again proved valuable. The bill could| yet be killed by a veto and “Boss” Mullen delivered the veto, and if he did not coliect a good, big, fat ;ee] for his services it was his own ault. Bank Charters While You Wait, Still another illustration showing Mullen’s versatility 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 denyin another: applicdtion previously files on the pretense ' that there were Omaha, . Zor the ‘len appeared as attorney and cleverl worked the game so that the ne\{ charter came in the guise of the trans- fer of a long since relinquished char- ter and the sfer with it of a credit of some $6,000 in the deposit guaranty fund which rightfully lhoul: 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 solicitedto employ Mul- len and that he wanted $2,500 fo (ake their case and get a charter for them. Puts Bryan Off the Map. What has made Mullen the “big” boss of the democratic party, how- ever, is his successful conduct of 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 itchcock and his newspaper with his hatred of Bryan. The federal pie AN EXCELLEN KIDNEY REMEDY We have been selling Dr. Kilmer's Swamp- Root for the past thirteen years and our cus- tomers are perfectly satisfied with the re- sults obtained from the use of Swamp-Raot, and apeak very favorably regarding it. We de not reeall ever having had a complaint regarding it. 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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, ad- visor-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 OF 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 | governmental policies. 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, extraordinary efficiency, a great or-| cipline, alert manhood. They have had their wastes, they have had their’ misfortunes, but behind all those se- rious consequences of war must be observed the advantages of a mendous driving power, perfecting or- | ganization and increasing the effici-| brigade, Governor Morehead's state 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 Isiand. 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 triumphof Mullen, by the defeat of both Bryans, enabled him to realize his horoscope of himself standing Co- lossus-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” as possible chair- man of the democratic national com-' mittee and silk-hatted made the trip to Shadow Lawn to listen to the 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 its con-[ cerns,” The heckler then asked his ques-! tion, After replying, Mr. Hughes convl tinued: ing far to the future, E sider our place as a great nation de- these crises\ arise we are trustees, really guardians of our future, may ourselves—though heaven forbid | —be involved in difficulties when | these rights which are of the utmost | importance are questioned. We must maintain the rig?l the need, in the absence of a mer- chant marine, such as we should have, S e T ——— The Best in Musical Selections Played on a s GRAFONOLA Adds to the Enjoyment of a Home You can select'a Grafon- | ola in oak, walnut or mahog- any in any size or style you ‘desire and as many records as you wish and try it in your home before you buy. Grafonolas cost $15, $28, $35, $50, $60, $75, $85, $100, $110, $125, $150, $175, $200, $350. 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