Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1908 — MILLER NOMINATED [ARTICLE]

MILLER NOMINATED

Clias. W. Miller, of Goshen, one of the recently defeated candidates for the republican nomination for governor fared better at a convention held at Plymouth Tuesday to select a successor to the late Abraham L. Brick, to represent the 13th congressional district in congress. Mr. Miller’s opponent for the nomination was John L. Moorman, editor of the Starke County Republican, at Knox. And oui symprthies were somewhat with the editor, largely because of a personal acquaintance of a large number of years, and also because he was a newspaper man and a mighty good one. Mr. Moorman for some years edited and published the Idaville Observer, in White county, and began to take a deep interest in politics when there. He soon outgrew the opportunities offered for a man of his talent in a small town and secured the Knox ppper, which is one of the cleanest and most ably edited papers that comes to our exchange table. Mr. Mooiman was soon elected chairman of the 13th congressional district and retained it through several campaigns resigning after he announced himself as a candidate to succeed Mr. Brick. While"the convention and the active campaign that preceded it was fought on tense lines, it is said to have left no sore spots and when Mr. Moorman saw that he was beaten he took the platform and withdrew and made the nomination of Mr. Miller unanimous. He said in a feeling way: “It has been ground into my soul that the'man who can not stand defeat is unworthy to win a victory.”