The Yale expositor., 1900-10-05
Why Richard 0lney Supports
the Nebraskan.
He Always Has Been Believer in HaDl-
ing Down the Flag and Sinking
Responsibilities Falling TO
the COun ry.

Bryan'S election means scuttle.
Mr.. Olney was one of an administTa-
ton which withdrew from the Hawaiian
Islands. He would repeat the act. We
are in the Philippines Mr.. Olney would
leave. President McKnley's admins
tration has protected American citizens
from massacre and American women
from outrage in China. Mr.. Olney de-
nounCcs its acts as the acts of the
weakest and silliest of admnistra-
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 Presl-
dent Mckinley has thrust in the wedge
OF 5000 victorious American troops 10
keep the door open from Chinese mtol-
erance or European aggression. But Jnls
is a part OF that policy on which Mr.
Oney urges Mr.. Bryan's election. be-
cause $50 far rs the injurious c0nsc-
quences of past courses can be avertcd
or mitigGted something may be hoped
from those not primarily responsible tOr
them
From their official authors and jusii-,
fcrs nothing but persistence in these
courses can reasonably be expected,
says Mr.. Onoy. lie is eight. If re-
sistance to American authority comes
on American territory President Me
kinlcy will suppress il. Where the flag
| has been hauled down. as in Hawaii,
he will replace il, and the American peg
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 H
Turkey, have been Systematically neg
lcctcd 10y previous administration, of
which Mr. Olncy was Secretary Of State,
! President Mckinley will insist on pay
| mcnt.
Mr.. Olncy 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. Olncy demands n policy OF
| scuttlc. To him this "outweighs' all
else. He admits that panic will conn.
with Bryan; but better, he says, in
substance, "Scuttlc and Panic" thar
Sovereignty and Security"
We accept the issue. We trust Mr..
! Olney can bc induced TO accompany
Mr.. Bryan on his platform campaign to
urge scuttie with a vigor and plainness
Of speech his chief, his leader and his
/ guide lodges Mr.. Bryan talks of
"stable government" in the Philippines.
! Mr.. Oiney objects because we "forcibly
! expelled Spain from her Philippine pos
sessions" Mr.. Oney returned the Ha-
waiian Islands to one tyrant. He is
ready TO return the Philippines to an
other.
The American people is not. Mr..
Olncy is a lawyer. lie knows that the
! legal choice lay between Spanish SOW
! ereignty and ourg. He prefers Spanish;
| American vOters do not. Mr.. OlnCy
! talks Of much else, but his heart Is in
Il policy OF Scuttle. lie dcuounces 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 be looks at our credit on
per cent basis and British bonds
! seeking market in New York he per-
| haps hopes to persuade the country that
! those were better and more prosperous
days when Mr. Oncy approved secret
contracts with money changers debating
their terms ut the White House. when
our bonds had to ICE sold in London at
usurious rates 10 buy gold and prop the
sinking credit of the treasury. which
covered before bankers who to-day have
10 word in its policy.
Mr.. Oiney has done well for the Re
publican party. lie has recalled 10 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 lie demands again days OF
pauic, Of q free trade tariff, Of crash and
f,'hrc. Of breaking banks and bankrupt
firms desc "cu,amitorS possibilities"
which were calanltous ccrtainties under
| the Clevcand-Olney administration, are
"outweighed.' says Mr.. Olney. hy the
certainty of policy of "scuttlc" from
Mr.. Bryan Under him citizens will no
longer. in peril, see the nag coming with
salvation in it's folds, brought TO Pcsn
by 1.-THE weakest and silliest Of admins
tratons;" the flag will come down in the
Philippines, and it will be withdrawn as
Mr.. Olncy withdrew 1t in Hawaii. though
in Cuba Mr.. Olney is willing to break
national faith and protests against this
island being "alien territory" Trust
| proslay,ry Democrat to grab Cuba and
20 insist. rs he does that it must be-
come an integral part of the United
States" which the Republican party did
not accept as 20 annexed territory when
urged for slavery and will not when urg-
Cd for scuttlc.
Mr.. Olney is n Democrat. He needs
n party. He has no other. II would he
strange if he did not support n 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. il is Of grave
public service that he has made plain 10
all men that Mr.. Bryan not only means
disaster ut home but disgrace abroa'..
policy OF scuttlo. surrender and retreat.
Philadelphia Press.
France Disapprov OF Mckinley.
1t appears that President McKinley's
letter OF acceptance has met with a vcry
frosty reception in France. President
McKinleys ground with respect TO the
Philippines does not meet the approval
| of the French press All tire hotter rca-l