New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-18
CRIMES AGAINST THE STATE.
WARNER MILLER ARRAIGNS THE DEMO
Gratis.
Tur1B INFAMOUS CONDUCT IN STEALING SENATE
sEATS-THE PEOPLE WILL SURELY
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PUNISH TUEM.

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Ex-senator Warner Miller. is one of the prom-
nent Republicans in New-York State who 90
not believe in submitting in silence to the out
rageous domination Of llillism which has CHAR
acterized the political situation in this Sta'e
since the November election. Ex-senator MIL
Ter believes in the agitation Of question LOOKING
10 reform if reform is to be accomplished. Ills
canvass of the State as candidate Tor Wv
ernor in the Presidential year on the important
temperance issue and his continued deterniileu
stand on the same question since that time is
characteristic of the man. lie oeIlcVcs t'"o Nv
mistake was then made. Further than TINS. he
believes that 10 mistake could be made py INC
Republican party from now on IN the same d.
rcction by p,rsstently keeping that question be-
fore the people 1t is natural, therefore. that
., tho important subject of the capture OF the
State Senate by the Democrats through mcthodS
which have never been popular in this great
Commonwealth. this outspoken Republican should
have something positive TO say.
The ex-senator spends much Of his time IN
Ncv York City in these days and can almost
daily he seen at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Her, q Tribune reporter met him yesterday anu
asked him how. as a Republican of conslderape
backbone. he relishcd the situation. lhc en-
Senator said. Il should answer by quoting the
familiar proverb Whom the gods wouid ue''ios
tbov first make mad The Democratic party seems
70 have been carried away and to have loso It's
head over the large majority which MI fIo"ei
received for Governor, and now as consequent
il appcars to be suffering from an acute a''eoh VI
noliticaI insanity. Immediately after t1e GO
t;on the marty found it had elected the o'"'e
+;cket nv large majority, but had lost the Senate
which was left with Republican majority oil
four while the Assembly was substantially
tie So q conspiracy was organized LOT 'ho Pui
pose of securing control OF both podies Vi III.
LEGISLATURE in defiance Of the expressed VIII y,
the people through the exercise OF the eiec'ol"l
svstem. That conspiracy has been carried ou'
successfully in defiance of all law ana precedent
and in defiance also OF the decision Oh 'iie "ouiO
of Appeals.
Continuing, ex-senator Miller SAID New-i III ~
from the organization of the State Government
down TO the present time, has been ho'cu ioi 'I''
fairness Of its elections and for the ready SUD
mission by the defeated party - the results rs
honestly declared at the polls. There have oceh
- Cow, donortures from this rule. The most notable
was the declaration of the election oil linton over
Law nc Governor by the State Board OF Canvassers
in an illegal way. A more recently notaoie case
was the seating of John T. Hoffman IN place oil
John A. Griswold, and this, as you rehehDeI
was brought about by the intamy OF William VI
Tweed and his crowd. The present case Is qu''o
as striking as that Of the counting IN oil Holman
by Tweed but it has been brought anout III 'ui-
fcrent way Tweed elected Holman ny idHI'i""
the count in the election districts IN thiS Guy ann
it's vicinity The present result IN the senate mas
hccn brought about by the action oil inc o'"''
BOARD of Canvassers in the giving OF cer'inca'eS
IN men who were not elected ana VINO, ~ y
conceded. did not have majority OF 'he No'cS
cast In the two instances | have gwen, inc poo
nile righted the wrong by defeating the party over
whelmingy at the subsequent elec'oh' 'heic"S
rebuxing them for the outrage perpetrated against
the franchise, and predict that the same pun
;sbment will come upon the Democratic party LOT
its ruilty action in defeating the VIII OF the peoPc
bv falsifying the late election returns
"Do you believe that the Democratic party al
,orco In the State sustain Governor Hill and his
fellowconspirators in the work they have accom-
| plished?" n
Il will say in reply TO that SAID MT
Miller. that it is greatly to be regretted that no
leading Democrat in the State has been fouhd
bold enough to denounce the frauds; but 90 ne
lieve that the rank and file OF the Democratic
party recognize the fact that great wrong has
been done, and this same element IN the orgahi'
zation will punish that party for what has been
done. It is to the interests Of all honest people
of all parties that this should be done.
THE seating of Mr. Walker in the Elmra Dis
trict where he was confessedly more than 300
votes in the minority" continued Mr. Miller, is
on outrage which admits Of no palliation. IL Is
no excuse for the Democrats to say that Mr.. Sher-
wood was ineligible, and that it n great blum
der for Republicans TO nominate him and TO carry
him through the election. / imagine that at the
prcsent time no Republican doubts that, but if
Mr. Sherwood was ineligible, as the courts have
held and as was probably the case. still Mr.
Walker was not elected. He should not, there
fore. have been seated in the summary way he was
| by the enforcement Of the previous question
Nothing like this was ever done before in this
State new election should have been ordered
and the people allowed to select their Senator by
| majority vote.
In the Peck case. Mr.. Peck was elected by a
| fair majority OF that fact question has been
raised by Democrat or Republican, yet he is
thrown out on a technicality Of law. However. as
the Court of Appeals has held that TO be the
law. we must submit to it unit! the law is changed
| but it is a decision contrary to all precedent in
| the history of the State Heretofore the court
has held that where the intention Of the voter
| could be shown without question that intention
| should control in the counting Of the vote.
"The present ballot law is q mongrel affair,
anyhow. II is not genuine system like that
adopted in other States. The bill was passed in
| it's present form because it was the only measure
| that the then Governor of the State would APP
prove: and if reports can be believed it bill
largely drawn by the Governor himself. Re
suts have shown that it ought not to have passed
that il would have been better for the state to
have continued under laws which have been
enforced from the beginning and under which
substantially fair elections have been held and
not IN have nut on the statute books bill under