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Miller: time as they could get them to the county jail or 

 get them before a justice, but it was, of course, 

 a very, well, it was a very vicious way of doing 

 it and not an American human way of doing it and 

 it brought tremendous resentment into the hearts 

 of the working people. This had reverberations all 

 through the county and this of course had something 

 to do with the campaign. 



There were a number of other items that came 

 into the campaign. In the early days in Richmond, 

 while I couldn't go to war f I told the government 

 that I would go to war if they would take care of 

 Mother and the children, and they couldn't, so 

 there was quite some discussion about me. I was a 

 controversial figure to the extent that some people 

 thought I was a slacker, bein^ partly of German 

 parentage. This came into the campaign, but the 

 people in Richmond, all of them knew that I was not 

 a slacker and they knew how well I had done so they 

 really got out and got mad when this was used. They, 

 the opponents, used everything they could and this 

 was one important thing in the campaign that bounced 

 on them again* 



