The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-10-12
SCUT7LE AND PANIC
ARE BRYAN'S POLICY.
Why Richard 0lney Supports
the Nebraskan.
lie Always Has Been a Believer in Haul
ing Down the Flag and Sinking
Responsibilities Falling to
the Country.

service 10 the enllfe country Oy tOrClI@
every voter to face the fact that Mr..
Bryans election means scuttle.
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 Mckinleys admins
tration has protected American citizens
from massacre and American womeR
from outrage i'll China. Mr. Olney dies
nounces its acts as the acts of the
weakest and silliest Of adminstra-
lions" 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 1000 victorious American troops 10
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 kR>be9ayerted
or mitigated 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 If re-
siStance to American authority comes
on American territory President Nc
k!nley 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 previous administration Of
which Mr.. Olney was Secretary Of State,
President Mckinley will insist On paw.
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.. Ojney demands policy Of
scuttle. To him this "outweghs" 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 a vigor and plainness
of speech his chief, his leader and his
guide lodges. Mr.. Bryan talks Of
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 an
other.
The American people is not. Mr..
OlHey is Il lawyer. He knows that the
legal choice lay between Spanish SOW
ereignty and ours. He prefers Spanish;
American voters do not. Mr. Olncy
talks Of much else, bnt 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, 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
2 per cent basis and British bonds
seeking a 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
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. Olney has done we'll for the Re
publican party. He has recalled to the
do e
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
dlsgraced. 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 calamitous certainties under
the Cleveland-Olney administration, are
''Outweighed,' says Mr.. Olney. 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 its folds, brought to Pekin
by 1.-The weakest and sillest Of admins
trationS;" the flag will come down in the
Philippines, and it will be withdrawn. AZ
Mr.. Olney withdrew it in Hawaii. though
in Cuba Mr.. Olney is willing to 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 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 a 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. A public peril he admits Mr..
Bryan is, but since Mr.. Olney must sun
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 a
policy Of scuttle, surrender and retreat.
Philadelphia Press.
France DisapprOves Of Mckinley.
1t appears that President McKinlev's
letter Of acceptance has met with very
frosty reception in France. President
McKlnley'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 dur;p1 @ha drort.i -