The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-09-28
SCUTTLE AND PANIC
ARE BRYAN'S POLICY.
Why Richard Olney Supports
the Nebraskan.
lie Always Has Been a Believer in Haul
ing Down the Flag and Sinking
Responsibilities Failing to
the Country.

Mr. Richard Olney has done a 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.. Olney de-
nounccs its acts as the acts Of the
weakest and siliest of administra-
TONS" The administration has demand
ed the open door in China, and when
Manchu reaction and massacre threat
cned 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-
crance 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-
Pile 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, us 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.. 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 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 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 vigor 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-
W. lei
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
ercignty and ours. He prefers Spanish;
American voters do not Mr. Oney
talks of much else, but his heart is in
policy of scuttle. lie denounccs 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-
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 he 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 well 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 i'll 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 hanks and bankrupt
firms. These "calamitous possibilities"
which were calamitous certainties under
the Cleveland-O lney administration. are
"outweighed,' 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 il 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 ''alien territory" Trust
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 a Democrat He needs
n PARTY. He has no other. 1t would be
strange IL he did not support Demo-
cratic candidate unless he were a 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, O
policy of scuttle. surrender and retreat.
Philadelphia Press.
Eranca nfea pnrOvea of Mckinley