Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-07-27
THE WOODRUFF SENA TOR


The editor of the New York Worlt
elaborates on the result in the Legis
lature in the State as follows:
The congratulatory Republican bras
band which a few Summers ago drov,
Senator Conkling into making an un
forgotten speech from q wood-pile at
North river pier, on his return iron
Europe, was sent up on Saturday eve
ming to Herkimer to exert its swee
influences upon Senator Warner Mil
ler. The echoes of the brass band anC
of congratulatory proceedings reacl
us through the Utica Herald, which
records that when the news of wha
the Legislature had done was carried
to Herkimer--
Bells we're rung, anvils and cannon roared ant
flags were thrown out. Work was stopped in III,
paper mill in which Mr.. Miller Is interested ant
the employees joined in the jOlifeation. Hand.
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some blue badges made their appearance, insorib
ed "Warner Miller, U. S. S." and we're worn b,
men Of all political convictions. Ats In the owe
ming procession formed at the Court House, ant
with the Old Herkimer brass band and Herkimel
drum corps II marched to the depot TO meet III,
Senatorial party. On the arrival Of the train tht
paper.mill cannon gave the siglAl and bells al
over the town spoke joyous welcome.
The brass band and procession next
marched to the lawn of County Judge
Prescott, who, from a platform of hi:
own construction POSSIBLY of the high
ly taxed "wood" from which the Sen
atorially protected "pulp" is made)
welcomed our distinguished towns
man, Warner Miller" The Judge,
forgetting memories OF Michael Hofl
man, ex-Speaker Grain, Arphaxed
Loomis, ex- Treasurer Spinner, Exon.
gressmon Charles S. Benton and Geo
A. Hardin, in the course of his speech
exclaimed; "Herkimer county has
been many times honored, but never
more than to day" The wood. pulp
Senator then returned thanks. Though
protectionist 10 the matter of wood.
pulp he is evidently q free trader in
oratory, for he expressed his feelings
in an almost verbatim plagiarism from
the address Of President Lincoln on his
taking farewell of Springfield in 1861
"For sixteen years have lived in
your midst, and whatever Of success
has been mine has come to me here.
Here my children were born and here
somo Of them are buried, and | feel
that old Herkimer is to me the dear
est spot on earth"
Other speeches followed, among
them one by a townsman bearing the
amazing namc of Titus Sheard. The
new Senator was then escorted to his
home, where the people were enter.
tained with ice. .cream-possibly wood
pulp in frozen condition. This was
all very fine no doubt, But when
these proceedings are read by the light
of the comments made upon Warner
Miller's Congressional record of year
ago by the Tribune, Post and Times,
the "honor" done to all Herkimer by
sending Mr.. Miller to the Senate is moi
so clear as it might be. According "a
the Times Herkimer has to congratu
late herself on sending to the Senate
a man who stands "in the lowest of al
catcgories of public men," According
to the Post the now hero of Herkimei
deserves ga dishonored tombstone
upon which shall be inscribed Here
lies one who "was always faithful tC
his duty-the duty on pulp"
OF course it was not Warner Miller
but Warner Millcr's pulp mill in
which Herkimer really exulted on Sat
urday. To Warner Miller Herkimei
owes an industry which is maintained
by a thousand other towns compelled
to pay tribute TO Herkimer in the en-
hanced price of paper. But is it cleai
that Warner Miller being elected will
be admitted to tho floor of the Senate
The Constitution gives the Senate The
power of passing upon the qualfica
tions Of its members, and there arc
sundry kinds of qualifications which
enter into the question of the admis
sion of Senator. Quite apart from
questions Of regularity in the conven
ton or from any question of the use
of bribery, whether by money or by
the proffer Of Custom House offices
toward the election of Warner Miller
ought the Senate to admit q person
who when in the Lower House yiolat.
ed the Revised Statutes of the United
States relating to the conduct of Con.
gressmen2 1t has been indisputably
established by Congressional records
that Warner Miller, in the Spring Of
1880, while he was a member of the
Lower House, and while he was inter.
ested in the exclusive privilege Of man.
uiacturing woodpulp in connection
with about half dozen other similar
manufacturers, and doubtless under
their retainer, appeared before tho
Committee of Ways and Means, not
only in his own behalf, but on behalf
of his manufacturing colleagues, as an
advocate Of "such a preservation of
the duty on wood.pulp as would OK.
clude commercial competition" with
himself and his associates in its propa.
ration or manufacture, This fact is
not only of record but il was at the
time sharply and justly animadverted
upon by many Of his political friends
in the press. When, therefore, the
credentials Of Warner Miller are pre-.
sonted to the United States Senate
must they not bo confronted with sec.
tion l,7sl Of the Federal Code, which
provides in its application to such
a subject that every member of Con.
grcss who directly or indirectly re.