The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-10-05
SCUTTLE AND PANIC
ARE BRYAN'S POLICY.
Why Richard Olney Supports
the Nebraskan.
He Always Has Been Believer in Haul.
ing Down the Flag and Sinking
Responsibilities Falling to
the Country.

service to the entire country by forcing
every voter to face the fact that Mr..
Bryan's election means scuttle.
Mr. Olney was one Of an administra-
| ton which withdrew from the Hawaiian
Islands. He would repeat the act We
are in the Philippines Mr.. Olney would
leave. President McKinley's admins
| tration has protected American citizens
from massacre and American women
from outrage in China. Mr.. Olney de-
| nounces its acts as the acts Of the
weakest and silliest Of administra-
| tons" The administration has demand
| ed the open door in China, and when
| Manchu reaction and massacre threat
ened to close and bolt the door Presi-
| dent Mckinley has thrust in the wedge
/ OF 5000 victorious American troops to
keep the door open from Chinese intol-
erance or European aggression. But this
| is part of that policy on which Mr..
| Olney urges Mr.. Bryan's election, be-
cause $50 far as the injurious conse-
| quences Of past courses can be averted
or mitigated something may be hoped
from those not primarily responsible for
Them
From their Official authors and justi-
fers nothing but persistence in these
courses can reasonably be expected
says Mr.. Olney. He is right If re-
sistance to American authority comes
on American territory President Nc
Kinley win suppress it. Where the flag:
has been hauled down, as In Hawaii,
he win replace it. and the American peo-
| pie will vote to keep it there Where
citizens are in peril President Mckinley
will protect them, in all lands. Where
their claims to just indemnity, as in
Turkey, have been systematically neg
lected by a previous administration, Of
which Mr.. Olney was Secretary Of State,
President Mckinley will insist on pay
ment.
Mr.. Olney objects to this policy. The
American people approves. Vermont
demonstrates it. That New England
! State stands for the flag and all 1t pro-
! tects. Mr.. Olney demands a policy Of
scuttle. To him this "outweighs'' all
else. He admits that panic will come
with Bryan; but better, he says, In
substance, "Scuttle and Panic" than
Sovereignty and Security"
We accept the issue. We trust Mr..
Olney can be induced to accompany
Mr.. Bryan on his platform campaign to-
urge scuttle with a yigor and plainness
| of speech his chief, his leader and his.
4 guide lodges. Mr.. Bryan talks Of q
stable government" in the Philippines.
Mr.. Olney objects because we ''forcibly
expelled Spain from her Philippine pos
sessions" Mr. Olney returned the Ha-
waiian Islands to one, tyrant. He is
ready to return the Philippines to an
other
! The American people Is not. Mr.
Olney is lawyer. He knows that the
legal choice lay between Spanish SOW
ereignty and ours. He prefers Spanish;
| American voters do not. Mr.. Olney
| talks Of much else. but his heart is in
| a policy of scuttle. He denounces the
| Dingley tariff. Perhaps he thinks voters
prefer the tariff his chief signed and
| which brought depression, desolation
and deficits. He complains Of the
most Intimate relations between the
i United States treasury and the money
market" AS he looks at our credit on
i per cent basis and British bonds
! seeking n market in New York he per-
| haps hopes to persuade the country that
those were better and more prosperous
days when Mr. Olney approved secret
contracts with money changers debating
! their terms at the White House, when
our bonds had to be sold In London at
usurous rates to buy gold and prop the
sinking credit Of the treasury, which
covered before bankers who to-day have
no word in its policy.
Mr.. Olney has done well for the Re-
publican party. He has recalled to the
public those dire days OF a Democratic
administration Of which he was part
! when our railroads were In the hands OF
! receivers, our factories closed, our treas
ury empty, our credit gone and our flag
| disgraced. He demands again days OF
panic, of a free trade tariff, OF crash and
| failure, of breaking banks and bankrupt
firms. These "calamtous possibilities,
which were calamitous certainties under
| the Cleveland-Olney administration, are
| soutweighed,' says Mr.. Olney, by the
| certainty of policy of "scuttle" from
| Mr.. Bryan. Under him citizens will no
longer, in peril. see the flag coming with
salvation in its folds, brought to Pekin
by THE weakest and sillest Of admins
| trations;" the flag will come down In the
Philippines, and it will be Withdrawn, as
Mr. Olney withdrew II In Hawaii, though
in Cuba Mr.. Olney is willing to break
national faith and protests against this
island being 'alien territory" Trust o
proslavery Democrat to grab Cuba and
to insist, as he does, that 1t must be-
come an Integral part Of the United
! States" which the Republican party did
not accept as to annexed territory when
urged for slavery and will not when urg-
ed for scuttle.
Mr.. Olney is n Democrat. He needs
party. lie has no other. 1t would be-
strange If he did not support a Demo-
! cratic candidate unless he were a public
peril. A public peril he admits Mr.
Bryan is, but since Mr. Oluey must sup
port him, in spite of this, it is Of grave
public service that he has made plain to
all men that Mr.. Bryan not only means
disaster at home but disgrace abroad, q
policy Of scuttle. surrender and retreat.
Philadelphia Press.
France Disappraves or Mckinley.
1t appears that President McKinley'a
letter OF acceptance has met with very
frosty reception in France. President
McKinley's ground with respect to the
Philippines does not meet the approval
OF the French press. All the better rea-
go, fnr e,,s4atpi..t, H. proci1ank