Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1908 — CHARLES W. MILLER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHARLES W. MILLER.

Positive, fearless, able and trustworthy are expressions which every man who has watched public affairs tn Indiana apply to Charles W. Miller, of Goshen, candidate for governor. Although there Is, perhaps, no keener politician in the state, he is more than a mere politician. He has principles In which he believes, but he is not a crank on any of them. His level-headedness and broadmindedness offer the balance-wheel which made his good judgment as attorney general so well known at critical periods. But, as one man put it, “you can always depend on Charley MiHer doing the right thing.” Up in northern Indiana they swear by Charley Miller; but his close friends are by no means limited to any section. Northern Indiana is particularly enthusiastic for him because he lives mt Goshen and because there never has been an Indiana governor who lived north of the banks of the Wabash or even within a hundred miles of the state's north line, and they say they think it's about time northern Indiana had a chance to show what kind of governor she can produce. And they say that the right man is Charles W. Miller. Yet, strangely, southern Indiana citizens point out that Mr. Miller was born in Floyd county, the very southern edge of the state. That was February 4, 1863. And central Indiana citizens assert their claim to him, ahd to prove it they cite the fact that it was In Hancock county—in the old Sixth district —that he passed through the “starvation period” of his lawyer’s life before he located in Goshen, where he has lived since 1885. Of course, his record a 3 a Republican has been made in Goshen, which paid him his first political compliment In 1888 by choosing him mayor, then the youngest mayor in the state. But even before, that Mr. Miller had been going to Republican state conventions, where he was always to be found in

the thickest of the fight. He helped nominate Benjamin Harrison for president In 1892, as a delegate to the Republican national convention, and in 1896 he received his first recognition from a state convention, having been chosen as presidential elector-at-large. His nomination and election as attorney general followed in 1902, and since that time he has been conspicuous in public life. Mr. Miller is well known as one of the best lawyers in Indiana. He is also a most thorough business man, having at different times handled large affairs with marked success. As attorney general he made a‘very clbse study of the educational, penal and benevolent institutions of the state, and he is said to have a closer and more thorough working knowledge of the business of the state than any man in public life. In his work as attorney general as well as handling the larger affairs of the state's law business himself, he worked far into the night In mastering the details which are so essential to good official service. He was always known as eminently fair, even those against whom he proceeded acknowledging the fairness of his methods. And In critical situations, of which were many, when he was attorney general, Mr. Miller was never known to have lost his head, At the most trying times he was cool and collected and alert to every opportunity to act for the good of the commonwealth. With all his work and all his varied duties and responsibilities, which have been heavy, Mr. Miller has never lost his human side, and he enters Into the lighter things of life with the same vim he shows in his work. He seems never to grow tired, and physically he is a human dynamo. He is big and broad, not only physically but mentally, and anyone who knows him never has any misgivings about Charley Miller’s being led by anybody except by Charley Miller. —’—__