The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-09-27
SCUTTLE And PANIC
ARE BRYAN'S POLICY.
Why Richard Olney Supports
the Nebraskan.
He Always Has Been Believer in Hanf-
ing Down the Flag and Sinking
Responsibilities Falling to
the Coun ry.

service to the entire country by forcing
every voter to face the fact that Mr..
Bryan's election means scuttlc.
Mr. Olney was one OF administers
ton which withdrew from the Hawaiian
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 ndministra-
! TONS The administra ton 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-
GRANGE or European aggression. But this
| is a part of that policy which Mr.
Olney urges Mr.. Bryan's election, be-
cause 80 far the injurious conse-
quences of past courses can be averted
| or lnitigated something may be hoped
from those not primarily responsible for
/ them"
| From their official authors and justi-
/ hers nothing but persistence in these
courses can reasonably be expected"
| says Mr.. Olney. He is right IL re-
sistance to American authority comes
| on American territory President Nc
Finley will suppress it. Where the flag
has been hauled down, in Hawaii,
he viii replace if, 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, in
| Turkey, have been systematically neg
| lected by previous administration, of
| which Mr.. Olney Secretary of State,
| President Mckinley will insist 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 policy of
| scuttle- To him this ''outweighs'' all
else. lie 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 n 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 ''forcibIy
expelled Spain from her Philippine pos
sessions MIR. Olney returned the Ha-
| waiian Islands TO tyrant. He is
ready to return the Philippines 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
| policy of scuttle. He denounces the
| Dingley tariff Perhaps he thinks voters
prefer the tariff his CHIEF signed and
| which brought depression, desolat ton
and deficits. He complains of the
! most intimate relations between tho
United States treasury and the money
| market. As he looks at our credit on
| Il per cent basis and British bonds
seeking 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 dicta ting
| their terms at the White House. when
| our bonds had to he 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 III 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 n part
| when our railroads were in the hands of
receivers, our factories closed. 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 brea king banks and bankrupt
| firms These "calamitous possibilities"
| which Were calamitous ccrtainties under
the Cleveland Olney administration,
| "outweighed,' says Mr.. OIney, 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 it's folds. brought TO Pekin
| by the weakest and sillest of admins
| trations;'' the flag Will come down in the
/ Philippines, and il viii be Withdrawn. as
Mr. Olney withdrew il in Hawaii though
| in Cuba Mr. Olney is willing break
national faith and protests against this
| island being '-alien territory" Trust a
| proslavery Democrat to grab Cuba and
to insist, as he does, that ii be-
come Integral part of the United
/ States which the Republican party did
not accept TO annexed territory when
| urged for slavery and will not when urg-
/ ed for ScuttIe-
Mr. Olney is Democrat. He needs
| party. He has no other. 1t would be
| strange If he did not support a Demo-
| cratic candidate unless he were a public
/ peril 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 only means
disaster at home but disgrace abroad a
policy of scuttle- surrender and retreat.
philadelphia Press.
France Disappr0ves OF Mckinley
1t appears that President McKinIey's
letter of acceptance has with a very
frosty reception in France. President