The sun., 1900-10-02
Why Richard 0lney Supports
the Nebraskan.
He Always Has Been Believer in 1aul-
ing Down the Flag and" Sinking
Responsibilities Falling to
the Couu.ry.

bryan S elcCtlOu uleuuo SSuttiS'
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.
leaye. 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 slliest of administra--
tons" The administration has demand
ed the open door in China, and whena
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 TINS
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 avertedi
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
Sinley will suppress it. Where the flag:
| has been shauled down, as in Hawaii.
| he will replace it, and the American peo-
pie will vote to keep 1t there. Where
citizens are in peril President Mckinley
will protect them, in all lands. Where
their claims to just indemnity, as i'm
Turkey, have been Systematically neg
lected by a previous administration, or
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" ALI
else. He admits that panic will come
with Bryan; but better, he says, int
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 scutte with a yigor and plainness,
of speech his chief, his leader and his
, guide lodges. Mr.. Bryan talks of a.
''stable government" in the Philippines.
Z, Mr. Olney objects because we "forcibly'
S expelled Spain from her Philippine pos.
b sessions" Mr.. Olney returned the Ha-.
$ wafian Islands to one tyrant. He is;
c ready to return the Philippines to an
d other.
e The American people is not. Mr..
J. Olney is a lawyer. He knows that the,
legal choice lay between Spanish SOW
4 ereignty and ours. He prefers Spanish;
: American voters do not Mr. Olney
d talks of much else, but his heart is in
y a policy of scuttle. lie denounces the
d Dingley tariff. Perhaps he thinks voters
d prefer the tariff his chief signed and
II which brought depression. desolation
D. and deficits. He complains of "the
It most intimate relations between the
le United States treasury and the money
Is market" AS he looks at our credit on
y Il . per cent basis and British bonds
IN seeking n market in New York he per.
le haps hopes to persuade the country that
lie those were better and more prosperous
n days when Mr. Olney approved secret
X contracts with money changers debating
r. their terms at the White House, wher
our bonds had to he sold III London al
- usurious rates to buy gold and prop the
90 sinking credit of the treasury, which
~ covered before bankers who to-day have
ee no word IN its policy.
~ Mr.. Olney has done we'll for the Re
y, ~ publican party. He has recalled to the
,i ,ie public those dire days OF Democratic
nc administration of which he was Il part
,ie when our railroads were in the hands Of
20, receivers, our factories closed, our treas
80 ury empty, our credit gone and our fla,
'ss disgraced. He demands again days O
90 panic, of free trade tariff, of crash ant
81 failure, of breaking banks and bankrup
~. hrms. These "caamitous possibilities,
~ which were calamitous ccrtaintics unde
ne' the Cleveland-Olney administration, mr.
~ ''outweighed,' says Mr.. Olney, by tn
a. certainty of a policy OF '.scutte" from
- Mr.. Bryan. Under him citizens will n,
- longer, in peril see the flag coming will
a. salvation in its folds. brought to Peki,
ns by 1.-THE weakest and silliest of adminie
e ,ae trations;" the flag will come. down in tn
~ Philippines, atiAd it will be withdrawn.
sor Mr.; OlpelsT withdrew 1t in Hawaii, thou
~ inT Cuba Mr.. Olney is willing to bre
VI national faith and protests against Il
~ ~ island being "aien territory" Trust
,oa. proslavery Democrat to grab Cuba n
- to insist ms he does, that 1t must
ana" come IN Integral part of the Uni
haaS States" which the Republican party .
- not accept as to annexed territory VII
. o. urged for slavery and will not when u
VI, . ed for scuttle.
"Au Mr.. Olney is Democrat. He ne
ooo o party. He has no other. 1t would
9oo; strange If he did not support a Der
''6oo cratic candidate unless he were a pul
''ooo peril. A public peril he admits
ooo Bryan is, but since Mr.. Olney must S
i'<oo port him, in spite of this, 1t is of gr
public service that he has made plail,
oau. all men that Mr.. Bryan not only me
Just disaster at home but disgrace abroad
-, .ne policy of scuttle. surrender and retr,
rms Philadelphia Press.
ls OF
An France Disapproves of McKinie,
IONS 1t appears that President Mcxinl,
us letter OF acceptance has met with a V
frosty reception in France. Prcsid
McKinley's ground with respect to
e. Philippines does not meet the apprc
the of the French press. All the better
ago. son for sustaining the Presid
olicy, Frances attitude during the Snanish
has not yet faded from memory.