The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-07-26
THE NEW SENATOR.

all those qualifications that go to make up a
first class republican Office holder. The New
York Evening Post, Times and Tribune, all
good republican journals, measured him
over a yeay ago, and gave the world the BEN
eft of their opinions of the gentleman. Ac-
cording to these republican witnesses, tie
half breeds are to be congratulated upon the
election of "a reformer whose professions OF
virtue have yielded to the first temptation"
If the shining lights in the republican camp
are to he believed, Mr.. Miller is entitled to a
seat beside such mel as Gorham, Brady, Dor
sey, Belknap, Robeson& Co., who have done
so much towards attracting the attention of
the world to the pecoAiuriees of distingui sh-
ed republicans in America. "Wood Pulp"
Miller is the legitimate spawn of that foul
body of half breeds at Albany, a number Of
whose representative men arc now under in
dictment for bribery.
1t will be remembered that Mr.. Miller rep
resented one of the New York districts in the
late House of Representatives. While a
member of tie House it would appear from
the following that he paid more attention to
his own interests than to those of his constit-
uents:
"When his constituents elected Mr.. Warner
Miller they perhaps thought they were select
ing a man to look after their Interests in Con-
sress in respect to finance, economy in public
administration and other political matters.
They were mistaken. The only finances
ohn,,t u6inl, Mr. MILAN hoe trolIh1pn himSalf
are his own finances the only question of
econom to which he has given any thought
is the economy OF his own pulp and paper es-
adjustments, and lie has not allowed politi-
cal matters to stand for a moment in the way
of his private profits.
"Miller and his associates have been enabled
to enrich themselves by the duty on pulp and
other making materials. His first in
terest in life-official as we'll as individual
life-has therefore been to keep this duty on
the House of Represe ntatives to prevent the
consideration of tariff measures, and he has
presented the dlsgraceful spectacle of a mem-
Der OF Congress before the Committee of
Ways and Means endeavoring, by specious
arguments and false Statements, to further
his own p%ecuniary interests and to pocket
more dollars belonging to the public in ad-
djtion to the stock of dollars of which the
public has already been virtually robbed.
"Miller has labelled himself with his own
paper as the Great Pulp Monopolist. lie
ought to carry the label through his next
canvass, if he ventures to make another, and
when the people, whom he has Nmisrepresent-
ed, gather joyfully at his political burial,
they may we'll inscribe this epitaph upon his
dishonored tombstone sHere lies one who
did the same at Washington and who was al
ways faithful to his duty-the duty on pulp"
--hreniag Post, 4prH 9th. 1880.
ssWhen a member of the State Legislature,
Warner Miller, of Herkimer, cultivated
the reputation Of a reformer-of a man whose
soul revolted against the selishness and greed
of the professional politicians, and who was
sincerely DESTROYS to serve the people from a
purely disinterested sense Of public duty AS
a member of the House of Representatives
Miller has revealed himself in a new
Instead of resolutely abstaining,
as many less ]pretentious men have done,
from taking any part in legislation in which
he was personally interested, Mr.. Miller has
devoted much time, argument and influence
to the task of convincing the Committee of
Ways and Means that they ought to leave un-
his private monopoly of the manu-
facture of wood-pulp. Mr.. Miller's disregard
of the line which separates public duty from
self inte lends extreme probability to the
Washington report that he has threatened to
pulp on the free list with amendments OPEN
ing up the entire question of tariff legislation
The committee may or may not be moved by
Mr.. MilIer's threats, but though wood-pulp
may not be placed where it belongs, the
member from the Twenty. second New York
Distr. ct has at least placed himself in that
lowest of all categories Of public men-a re-
former whose professions of virtue have
yielded t. the first temptation. New York
Times, March %, 1880.
els it true or not that Mr.. Russell and his
fellow Congressman Mr.. Warner Miller at
tended the paper-maker. convention of Au-
gust, 1873 aud 1879? Is it rue or not that al
those meetings agreements were adopted for
stopping work and demanding higher prices?
Is it true or not that meetings have since
been held at the st. Nicholas hotel in this city
and elsewhere to regulate the price of wood
pulp? The Committee [of Ways and Means
then considering the question of removing the
duty on wood-pulp] might do well to interro
gate the gentleman named upon these points,
New York Tribune, March ID, 1850.
But after Mr.. Miller was nominated at AL