Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-09-27
SCUTTLE AND PANIC
ARE BRYAN'S POLICY.
Why Richard Olney Supports
the Nebraskan.
lie Always Has Been Believer ID Had.
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 scuttie.
Mr.. Olney was one of an administra-
tion which withdrew from the Hawaiian
Islands. He would repeat the act. We
are in the Philippines. Mr.. 0lney would
leave. President McKinIey's admins
tration has protected American citizens
from massacre and American women
from outrage in China. MIR. 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 MI.
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-
fiers nothing but persistence in these
courses can reasonably be expected"
says Mr.. 0lney. He Is right. IL re-
sistance to American authority comes
on American territory President Nc
Kinley will suppress il. Where the flag
has been hauled down. as in Hawaii,
he will replace it, and the American peo-
pie viii vote to keep II 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
hl SC SNulNlt Win NlSOE uuu
of speech his chief, his leader and his
guide lodges. Mr.. Bryan talks of
stable government" in the Philippines.
Mr.. Olncy objects because we "forcibly
expelled Spain from her Philippine pos
sessions" Mr.. 0lney returned the Ha-
waiian Islands TO one tyrant. He is
ready to return the Philippines to an
other. y /
The American people is not. Mr..
Olney is lawyer lie knows that the
legal choice lay between Spanish SOW
ereignty and ours. He prefers SpanishS
American voters do not. Mr.. 0lney
talks Of much else. but his heart is in.
policy OF scuttle. He denounces tho
Dingley tariff. Perhaps he thinks voters
prefer the tariff his chief signed and
which brought depression, desolatiop
and deficits. He complains OF the
most intimate relations between the
United States treasury and the money
market" As he looks at our credit ons
a 2 per cent basis and British bonds
seeking a market in New York he per-
haps hopes to persuade the country that
those We're 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
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.
Mr.. Oiney 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 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
panic, OF free trade tariff, OF crash and
failure. OF breaking banks and bankrupt
firms. These "calamitous possibilities"
which were calsmitous certainties under
the Cleveland-0 lney administration, are
"outweighed,' says Mr. 0lney. by the
certainty Of policy Of "scuttle" from
Mr.. Bryan. Under him citizens win no
longer. in peril, see the dag coming with
salvation in its folds. brought to Pekin
by ''the weakest and sillicst OF admiDis-
trations;" the dag will come down in the
Philippines, and 1t will be withdrawn. as
Mr.. Olney withdrew il iu Hawaii, though
in Cuba Mr.. Olney is willing to break
national faith and protests against this
island being "alien territory" Trust
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 a Democrat. He needs
a party. lie has no other. 1t would DO
strange IL 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.. olney must sup
port him, in spite OF this, il 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 scut,le. surrender aud retreat.
Philadelphia Press.
France Disapproves OF Mckinley.
1t appears that President MeKinley's
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-
son for sustaining the President
Frances attitude during the SDaniSh war