Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
EIGHT HOUR ATTACK
IGNOBlE, SAYS OLNEY
Hughes Hadn't the Nerve" to
Demand FiIibuster on the Law.
WILSON'S ACT COURAGEOUS.

Member Of Cleveland's Cabinet Praises
Presidents Domestic Achievements
and His Policy to Keep Country Out
Of War.
No American can speak with higher
authority on the issues OF this cam
paign than Richard Olney, who was
President Cleveland's attorney general
during the railroad strike OF 1894 and
President Cleveiand's secretary OF
state when the Ienezuelan message
was sent to the British government.
He should know whether President
Wilson's action In averting the rail
road strike was a surrender to force;''
whether the Wilson foreign policy has
been ''timid and vacillatlng."
Mr.. Olney seeks no political prefer
ment; his interest is that of u retired
statesman, of q 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 turning
over their affairs to Mr.. Hughes and
the interests which would dictate his
policies, foreign and domestic.
Where Mas His Nerve?
Discussing the passage of the Adam
son eight hour law, Mr.. Olney points
out that the Republicans Of the senate.
II they had really wished more time
for the consideration of the bill, could
have obtained it by means of a fill
buster, a recognized senatorial weapon
and adds:
"Why did not the Republican sena-
tors resort to it and get all the time
for deliberation they wanted? What
was Candidate Hughes doing that he
did not make the wires hot with mes
sases to MISUNDERSTANDING against
tho law the seventy four Republican
representatives who voted for il and
urging the twenty eight Republican
senator's 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 it's due consideration, they defib-
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't to
the mode of it's accomplishment.
"a pettier and more ienoble game Of
politics never was conceived. In com
parison and in view of the sudden anG
extraordinary exigency sprung upoI
the country President Wilson's course
was characterized by both courage anl
common sense"
( OF Candidate Hughes conduct in the
campaign Mr.. Olney remarks:
mo m was the nomination as
sursd than the robes and ermine o
the judge fell from the candidate a.
II by magic, and there appeared in theii
place tho motley wear Of the ordinar,
Office seeker-a transformation as sud,
den as that made by the wand of Har
leQuin In the pantomime, and a trans
formation showing how thin is the ju
dicial veneer, and forever discreditin.
the United States supreme court as {
training camp fol. high political office
Has Kept the Rudder True.
In Its conduct OF foreign relation.
the Wilson administration, Mr.. Olney
says. has kept it's rudder true and has
won and deserved the respect ant
gratitude of the country
The principles and objects Of TIL,
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 q neutral, and defining it's rights
and obligations as such.
Third-TO deaf with the Mexican
situation in a spirit OF perfect fair
ness and friendliness to the Mexi-
can people, now suffering from civ
II dissensions and revolution to an
extent which lehyes a large part Of
the country in a state of anarchy.
Mr.. Olney shows that all these oh
jects have been attained through tn,
wise, patient and courageous diplo
macy Of Woodrow Wilson; that tn,
president has kept the country u
peace without dishonor; that under hi
leadership "the United States has rem
dered an inestimable service to heliig
Greats and neutrals and to all man
kind In steadily bearing aloft iii,
banner of international law as til,
standard under which all civilized PEG
pies must eventually gather"
Mr.. Olney finds particular I,
commend President Wilson's Mexican
policy. He stands with the presiden
n declaring that the Mexicans hay,
Tie right to work out their own DIES
TIM . through revolution.
Closing BY asking what Is likely t
hAppen Il the s.presidential tillel
passes into new hands" Nh. OineJ
49, that Hughes ~inducement to
1870 the existing foreign policies OF