The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-12
Why Richard 0Iney Supports
the NebraSkan.
lie Always Has Been a Believer in Haul
ing Down the Flag and Sinking
Responsibilities Falling to
the Country.


Bryan's election means scuttle.
Mr.. Olney was Que 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 10
keep the door open from Chinese intol
erance or European aggression. But this
| is part of that policy on which Mr..
Olney urges Mr.. Bryans 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 will suppress it. Where the flag
has been hauled down, as in Hawaii,
he will replace it. and the American peo-
pie will vote to keep it thcre. Where
| citizens are in peril President Mckinley
will protect them, in all lands. Where
their claims to just indemnity, rs 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 it 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 vigor and plainness
of speech his chief, his leader and his
guide lodges. Mr.. Bryan talks Of a
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 o. much else bnt his heart is in
a policy of scutte. He denounces the
Dngley 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
United States treasury and the money
market" As he looks at our credit on
a per cent basis and british bonds
seeking a 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 seld in London at
usurious 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.
MIR. Olney has done we'll for the Re
publican party. He has recalled to the
public those dire days Of Democratic
administration OF which he was a 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
pauic, of. a free trade tariff, OF crash and
failure, of breaking hanks and bankrupt
fi1ns.s These ''calamitous possibilities"
which were calamitous eertainties under
the Cleveland-Olney administration, are
''outweghed,' says Mr. Oney. by the
certainty of a 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 silliest OF admins
trations:" the flag will come down in the
Philippines. and it will be withdrawn. an
Mr.. Olney withdrew 1t in Hawaii. though
in Cuba Mr.. Olney is willing to break
national faith and protests against this
island being allen territory" Trust a
proslavery Democrat to grab Cuba and
to insist, as he does, that It musr 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.. Oney is a Democrat He needs
a party. He has no other. 1t would he
strange II he did not support Demo
cratic candidate unless he were public
peril. A public peril he admits Mr..
Bryan Is, but since Mr.. Olney 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.
policy of scuttle, surrender and retreat.
-Philadeiphia Press.
France Disapproves OF Mckinley.
1t appears that President MeKinley's
letter Of acceptance has met with very
frosty reception in France. President
McKiney's ground with respect to tho
Philippines does not meet, the approval
II A H.. A<k