The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-04
EIGHT HOUR ATTACK IGNoBLE, SAYS oLNEy
Hughes Hadn't the Nerve" to Demand FiIibuster on the Law.
WILSON'S ACT COURAGEOUS.


 Member of CIeveIand's Cabinet Praises
 Presidents Domestic Achievement
 and His Policy to Keep Country Out
 of War.
 f No American can speak with higher authority on the issues of this cam paign than RicharS Olney, who was President Clevelands attorney general 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 vacillating."
 MT. Olney seeks no political prefer ment; his interest is that of retired statesman. of a wise. experienced, dis passionate patriot, who is concerned only with the welfare of his, country.
 MT. 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 turning over their affairs to Mir. Hughes and the interests which would dictate his policies, foreign and domestic.
 Where Was His Nerve7
 Discussing the passage of the Adam son eight hour law, Mr. Olney points out that the Republicans of the senate, if they had really wished more time for the consideration of the bill, could have obtained it by means of a fili- buster, recognized senatorial weapon, and adds:
 "Why did not the Republican sena- tors resort to 1t and get all the time for deliberation they wanted? What was Candidate Hughes doing that he did not make the wires hot with mes- sages to Washington-warnin against the law the seventy -four Republican representatives who voted for it and urging the twenty eight Republican senators to filibuster to the last ditch?
 But neither he nor the Rer-'blican leaders generally had the nerv face the situation. With ample means in, their hands to prevent legislation until after its due consideration, they delib- erately elected that it should appear to be enacted under coercion in order that after the great national deliyerance had been effected they might object to the mode of its accomplishment.
 "A pettier and more isnobIe 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."
 Of Candidate Hughes conduct in the campaign MT. 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 ordinary office seeker-a transformation as sud- den as that made by the wand of Har- lequin in the pantomime, and trans formation showing how thin is the ju- dicial veneer, and forever discrediting the United States supreme court as training camp for high political office." Has Kept tiie Rudder True.
 In its conduct, of foreign relations the Wilson administration, MT. Olney says. has kept it's 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 Mr. Olney have been:
 First-To keep the country out of
 the great European war.
 Second-To insist upon the exist
 ence and vitality of international law as determining its own status
 as a neutral. and defining its rights | and obligations as such.
 Third-To deal with the Mexican
 situation in a spirit of perfect fair
 ness and friendliness to the Mexi-
 can people, now suffering from civ
 il dissensions and revolution to an extent which feaves a large part of
 the country in a state of anarchy.
 MT. Olney shows that all these ob- jects have been attained through the wise patient and courageous diplo- macy of Woodrow Wilson; that the president has kept the country at peace without dishonor; that under his leadership 'the United States has iren- dered an inestimable service to bellig- erents and neutrals and to all man. kind" in steadily bearing aloft the banner of International law as the standard under which all civilized peo- ples must eventually gather
 MT. Olney finds particular cause to commend President Wilson's Mexican policy. He stands with the president in declaring that the Mexicans have the right to work out their own des- tiny even through revolution.
 Closing by asking what is likely to happen if the presidential tiller passes into new hands," Mir. Olney says that Hughes inducement to change the existing foreign policies of the country would be very great.
 "The American people can hardly fail to realize the danger and to re- fuse to put at risk the continuance of a foreign policy which, as a whole. must have their hearty approval"