Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1915 — HUGH MILLER FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HUGH MILLER FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR.

Hugh Th. Miller la a candidate for Am Republican nomination for United States Senator. He has given out the tallowing statement: "I want to be nominated for and elected to the United States Senate. My experience in the last campaign, and my investigations since have Shown me that, when nominated, I ean count on the united support of all the Republicans of 1914 and make a

convincing appeal to those former Republicans who had not yet rejoined us at the last election. "As in 1914, I want to go to the voters with the fundamental principles of Republicanism; patriotism and equal rights—a devotion to the welfare of the Republic that will conserve ■n/i defend It, whether from domestic foes, as in the 80’s, or from future foreign assault —a devotion to the welfare of all Americans that frees the slave, protects the farmer, mechanic and manufacturer against unfair competition from abroad, and removes inequalities and injnstioe from the path of the voters, the taxpayers, the work-

and children of America. Bedded by these primal principles of patriotism 1 and equal rights, I want Is be sms of a Republican majority in Oosgnfii which will continue the fight against Inequality and which wtl' restore prosperity, abolish sectionalism, curb extravagan os and prompts efficiency in business and In govnment I want those who expect to support me to send to me at Colusnhes their suggestions and any information that will promote my candid any.** Hugh Miller needs no to the voters of Indiana. Bern flatty* eight years ago on a farm In Johnson county and' reared there, Mr. Milter received his higher education at Sutler college, studying later in Bump ean tmlvei sities. He was for tea years a member of the Butler college faculty, resigning in 1899 to tabs up a business career in Columbus, whore he la vicepresident of Irwin’s bank. Three years after moving to Oetumbus, Mr. Miller made the raoe for rep* resentatlve in the Democratic oeenty of Bartholomew, being elected and making an enviable reoord in the session of 1903. He was nominated for Lieutenant Governor In 1904 sad Meat* ed, carrying Bartholomew county by more than five hundred rotas, the largest plurality ever given a Republican candidate in the county. Lieutenant Governor Miller's record 1 for efficiency and impartislity In the Senate is familiar to all. No dsMrtna of his was ever appealed from. He was a candidate for the Repuhttesn ■ nomination for Governor In lflOfl and I was nominated for United States Senator In 1914. Despite the disoowaging outlook for Republican success In ths latter year, Mr. Miller made a vigorous canvass and polled a remark- _ able vote In the raoe with Senator* Shively and former Senator Beveridge, exceeding the Taft vote efl 1912 by 75,499) or 80 per eeut Governor Marshall appointed Mr. Miller trustee of the Central Hospital for the Insane at Indianapolis, and Governor Ralston reappointed him. He is a director of Butler college and a> m ember of numerous political, literary and civic organisations in Cotnmbus and Indianapolis. He married Nettle Irwin Sweenoy, daughter of‘Rev. S. T.i Sweeney, of Columbus, In 199% ami l has twe children.