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Miller: we'll get on the old horse and we'll put on the old 

 spurs and we'll have a horse race." 



Baums This was Yeale? 



Miller: Yes. And he laughed quite extensively at me and they 

 all haw- hawed. So one day I was ready to run for 

 sheriff and I walked up to the sheriff and shook 

 his hand strenuously and I said, "Sheriff Veale, I'm 

 getting on the old horse, I'm putting on the old 

 spurs, and by god if it kills me I'll be the next 

 sheriff of this county." 



He said, "Let's go to it." 

 And we did. It was perhaps one of the most 

 terrific campaigns ever put on in this county, but 

 I was top man by 552 votes in the primary, out of 

 four of us. 



That same election night before I went to bed I 

 went to the other two candidates and I got a. written 

 statement that they would support me, and two o'clock 

 in the morning I went back to Richmond and put the 

 two statements in the safe and went to sleep. I 

 never brought them out until a week before the final 

 election. I never said anything about them and the 



