The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-13
NEXT CONGRESSMAN,
THE LAWRENCE CONVENTION AT
LAST AccoMPLIsHEs ITS WORK
AND DOES IT WELL.
JUDGE 0. |. MILLER, OF WYAND0TTE
THE NAME OF THE MAN WHO IS TO
LEAD THE REPUBLICANS OF THE
SECOND DISTRICT TO VIC
TORY NEXT FALL.

At half past eight o'clock, at the
conclusion of the 1059th ballot, amid
a whirlwind of enthusiasm, Chair
man Anthony announced that Judge
o. l.. Miller, of Wyandotte county,
had been nominated as the Republi-
can candidate for Congress from the
Second District.
1t was happy conclusion of an un-
parallelled contest. A contest unpar-
allelled in length but not less SO i'm
frieudliness and good feeling. A con-
test which made men friends instead
of enemies, which solidified and
strengthened the party instead of dis
rupting and weakening it.
Judge Miller, the nominee, is one of
the most conspicuous aud honored citi-
Gems of Kansas City, Kansas. Born in
Maine in 1856, he fought his own way,
with true Yankee grit, to an educa-
ton and a profession. Coming to
Kansas City in 1880 he entered upon
the practice of law in which he was
Immediately successful. In 1887, by
unanimous request of the bar of that
city, he was appointed by Gov. Mar
tin 10 be judge of newly formed ju-
dicial district. The following year he
was reelected by almost unanimous
vote but soon afterwards resigned to
resume the practice of law, becoming
a partner in the firm of Hutchings,
Keplinger & Miller. Last fall he
withdrew from. that firm to enter a
partnership with r. E. Morris, which
still exists. Personally Judge Miller
is a man of slight figure, but with
fine head and strong face. He has
a pleasant voice, and q dignified and
yet cordial bearing that must win
him friends. He is a ready and forci-
BILE speaker and man of broad cul-
ture and study. His character as an
honest and incorruptible man is I'M
Improbable, and his nomination
gives the utmost satisfaction to all
classes of Republicans in Wyandotte
county. We had never met Judge
Miller personally until the meeting of
the convention at Olathe, but he i'm
pressed us pleasantly in every way
and the REGISTER is absolutely sim
cere in congratulating the Republi-
cans of the District upon his nominal
ton for it believes that he is worthy
of their enthusiastic support,
The friends of Mr.. Funston were
disappointed, of course, that he did
not receive the nomination. They |
supported him with steadiness and
devotion which was no less a credit |
to them than it was an honor and a
pride to him, and which would have
won had it been possible 10 win. But
they cherish no resentment for they
anti-Funston compact
having been promptly rescinded upon
the re-assembling of the convention
at Lawrenco-that no unfair means
were used to accomplish his defeat.
Mr.. Funston was in the fight to win,
and he made royal battle. But now
that it is all over the natural disap-
pointment of defeat is almost compen-
stated by the feeling of relief that he ,
in the near prospect of
Ia ying down the worry and the work
If public life and returning once more 1
% the paths of private citizenship. ;
lie is profoundly grateful for the hon.
RS conferred upon him by the RepHb-
lean party of this District, and he s
will join with all his friends in sincere y
md enthusiastic support of Judge a
Iiller. n
ALPS well that ends well. q
Card of Thanks ~