The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-09-28
ISCUTTLE AND PANIC
ARE BRYAN'S POLICY.
Why Richard Olney Supports
the NebraSkan.
he Always Has Been Believer 10 Haul.
ing Down the Flag and Sinking
Responsibilities Falling to
the Country.

Mr.. Richard Olney has done public
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.. Oney de-
nounces its acts as the acts of the
| weakest and siliest of administers
tions." 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 80 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 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 it pro-
tects. Mr.. Olney demands 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 vgor and plainness
of speech his chief. his leader and his
guide dodges. Mr.. Bryan talks of a
stable government" in the Philippines.
Mr.. Oney objects because we "forcibly
l'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 a 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 scpttle. 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
United States treasury and the money
market" AS he looks at our credit ON
per cent basis and british bonds
! seeking market in New York he per-
i 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 ut
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.. Oney 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 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 calamit0us certainticS under
the Cleveland-Olney administration. are
''outweghed,' says Mr.. Olney, 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 1.-The weakest and silliest OF admins
trations;' the flag will come down in the
Philippines. and it will be Withdrawn. as
Mr.. Olney withdrew it in Hawaii, though
in Cuba Mr.. Olney is willing TO break
national falth and protests, against this
island being ''alen territory" Trust a
proslavery Democrat to grab Cuba and
to insist. as he does. that it 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 Democrat. He needs
party. He has no other. 1t would be
strange If he did not support Demo
cratic candidate unless he were public
peril public peril he admits Mr.
Bryan is. but since Mr.. Olney must sup
port him, in spite Of this. 1t is of grave
public service that he has made plain to
all men that MIR. Bryan not only means
disaster at home but disgrace abroad,
policy Of scuttle. surrender and retreat.
Philadelphia Press
France Disapprnvcs OF Mckinley.
1t appears that President McKinley's
letter of acceptance has met with very
frosty reception in France. President
McKinley's ground with respect to the