The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-10-10
Why Richard Olney Supports
the Nebraskan. .
He Always Has Been Believer Ia fauI.
ing Down the Flag and Sinking
Responsibilities Failing to
the Country.


Bryan's election means bcuttle.
MIR. 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.. 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 Plesi-
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 $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-
ders nothing but persistence in these
courses can reasonably be expected"
says MIR. 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, 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, 'Scuttlc and Panic" than
Sovereignty ard Security"
We accept the issue. We trust Mry
Olney can be induced to accompa~>
Mr. Bryan on his platform campaign
urge scuttle with a yisor 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 ana
other.
The American people is not. Mr..
Olney is u lawyer. He knows that the
legal choice lay between Spanish SOW
ereignty and ours. He prefers Spanish;
American voters do not. Mr.. Oney
talks Of much else but his heart is in
a policy of scuttle. 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 1.-The
most intimate relations between the
United States treasury and the money
market" AS he looks at our credit on
u ? 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.. Olney approved secret
contracts with money changers debating
IAClA lSI dl lile w ME 11VuSc, 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 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
pauic, of free trade tariff, Of crash and
failure, of breaking banks and bankrupt
firms. These 'calamitous possibilities"
which were calanitOus certainties under
the Cleveland Olney administration, are
''outweighed,' says Mr.. Olney. by the
certainty OF Il policy Of ''scuttie" 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 slliest 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 faith and protests against this
island being .'al;en territory" Trust q
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-
cd for scuttle.
Mr.. Olney is Democrat. He needs
party. He has no other. It would be
strange if 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, q
policy OF scuttie, surrender and retreat.
Press.
France Disapproves Of Mckinley.
1t appears that President McKiniey's
letter of acceptance has met with 7cry
frosty reception IN France. President
McKinley's ground with respect to the
pniIipDines does not meet the appr0yal