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Miller: 



Baum: 

 Millers 





CAMPAIGN FOR SHERIFF OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, 1934 



Anyhow, I was going to run for sheriff, I think in 

 *32, or it might have been in f 28, and they diverted 

 me to run for county assessor and I did run and I 

 was defeated by thirteen votes. I was elected up 

 until 10 A.M. the day after election, and then 

 four or five precincts came in and all of a sudden 

 I found myself defeated. I found that I got in 

 politics — what do you call it? — a doublecross, 

 and this excited my ambition to someday pay back. 

 What do you mean, a doublecross? 



Well, the people who had told me they were going to 

 support me for this election did not, and I found 

 myself defeated. So I made up my mind then that 

 someday I would run for sheriff. Well, the fact 

 that I ran for sheriff was not of my own accord, 

 really, because I used to come up once in a while 

 to Martinez on political matters and the sheriff 

 then was a pretty good friend and he used to say to 

 me, "Johnny Miller, whenever you want a horse race 



