Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-22
EIGHT-HOUR ATTACK
 IGNOBLE. SAYS OLNEY
Hughes Hadn't the Nerve" to Demand FilbuSter in the Sen
 ate Against the Law.
WILSON'S ACT COURAGEOUS
Member of CleVeIand's Cabinet Praises Presidents Domestic Achieve ments and Policy of
 AVertinc war.

No American can speak with higher authority on the issues of this cam paign than Richard Olney, who was President Cleveland's Attorney Gener- al during the railroad strike of 1894. and President Cleveland's Secretary of State when the Venezuelan message was sent to the British Government. He should know whether President Wilson's action in averting the rail road strike was surrender to force"; whether the Wilson foreign policy has been ''timid and vacillaing'.
 Mir. Olney seeks no political prefer ment; his interest is that of a retired statesman, of wise, experienced. dis passionate patriot, who is concerned only with the welfare of his country.
 Mir. Olney has written for the New York World a signed article in which he warns the American people against the danger sure to result from turnlag over their affairs to MT. Hughes and the interests which would dictate his policies, foreign and domestic.
 Where Was Hughes Nerve?
 Discussing the passage of the Adam son eight-hour law. Mir. Olney points out that the Republicans of the Senate, if they had really wished more time for consideration of the bill, could have obtained it by means of a flibus- ter, as recognized Senatorial wea- pon. and adds:
 "Why did not the Republican Sena- tors resort to it and get all the time for deliberation they wanted7 What was Candidate Hughes doing that he did not make the wires hot with messages to ashington-warning against the law the seventy-four Re publican Representatives who voted for it and urging the twenty-eight Re- publican Senators to fiIibuster to the last ditch?
 "But neither he nor the Republican leaders generally had the nerve to face the situation. With ample means in their hands to prevent legislation until after its due consideration, they de liberately elected that it should appear to be enacted under coercion in order that, after the great national deliver ance had been effected. they might object to the mode of its accomplish .ment.
 "A pettier and more ignoble game of politics never was conceived. In com pariSOn. and in view of the sudden and extraordinary eXigency sprung upon the country, President Wilson's course was characterized by both courage and common sense."
 0: Candidate Hughes conduct in the campaign, Mir. Olney remarks:
 "No sooner was the nomination as- sured than the robes and ermine of the Judge fell from the candidate as if by magic, and there appeared in their place the motley wear of the or dinary office seeker-a transfOrma- ton as sLslden as that made by the wand of Harlequin in the pantOmime. and a transformation showing how thin Is the judicial veneer, and for ever discredting the United States Supreme Court as a training camp for high political office"
 Has Kept Rudder True
 In its cO3duct of foreign relations the Wilson Administration, MT. Olney says. "has kept its rudder true and has won and deserved the respect and gratitude of the country"
 The principles and objects of the Wilson foreign policy as stated by Mir. Olney have been:
 First-TO keep the country out
 of the great European war.
 SecOnd-To insist upon the ex-
 istence and vitality of interna-
 tional law as determining it's own
 status as a neutral and defining
 its rights and obligations as such.
 Third-To deal with the Mexi-
 can situation in a spirit of per
 feet fairness and friendineSs to
 the Mexican people. now suffer
 ing from civil diSScnsions and
 revolution to an extent which
 leaves a large part of the country
 in state of anarchy.
 Mir. Olncy shows that all these Ob- iecis have been attained through the wise. patient and courageous dlplO- macy of Woodrow Wilson; that the President has kept Sthe country at peace without dishonor; that under his leadership the United States has rendered an ineStimable service to belligerents and neutrals aLd to all mankind" in steadily bearing alOft the banner of international law as the standard under which all civilized peoples must eventually gather"
 8lr. Olney finds particular cause to commend President Wilson's Mexican policy. He stands with the President in declaring that the MeXicans have ;he right to work out their own destiny even through revolution. Closing by asking what is likely to happen if the "Presldential tiller passes into new hands. AIr. Olney says that Hughes inducrment to ! change the existing foreign policies of the country will be yer} great "The Amerigm p7'r' 'r.a hardly l fail to rpali3p f'i. Hn- uGi 'o refuse To put ui riee fh. ria' r'au'-' nf g l foreiyl hr,r. ] mUs. ...... .-..