Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-10-26

tors resort to II and get all the time
TOR elaboration they wanted? What
was Candidate Hughes doing that he
did not make the wires hot with
messages to Washlnqton-warni
against the law the seventy-four Re-
publican Representatives who voted
for It and urging the twenty-eioht Re-
publican Senators to filibuster to the
last ditch?
"sut 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"
or Candidate Hughes conduct In the
campaign, Mr.. Olney remarks:
"No sooner was the nomination as.
sured than the robes and ernine Of
the Judge fell from the candidate as
If by magic, and there appeared in
their place the motley wear Of the or
binary office seeker-a TRANSFORMED
ticn as sudden as that made by the
wand of Harlequin in the pantomime,
and Il transformation showing how
thin is the judicial veneer, and for
ever discrediting the United States
Supreme Court as a training camp
for high political office"
Has Kept Rudder True
In its conduct ofA2reign relations
the Wilson Administration, Mr.. 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
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 neutral, and defining
Third-To deal with the Mexi-
can situation in spirit of per-
feet fairness and friendliness to
the Mexican people, now suffer
ing from civil dissensions and
revolution to an extent which
leaves large part of the country
in a state Of anarchy.
Mr.. Olney shows that all these OBJ
| jects have been attained through the
wise, patient and courageous diplo
macy of Woodrow Wilson; that the
President has kept the country al
his leadership "the United States has
rendered an inestimable service *
belligerents and neutrals and to al
mankind" in steadily bearing alof
the banner of international law a,
the standard under which all civilized
peoples must eventually gather"
Mr.. Olney finds particular cause t
commend President Wilson's Mexican
policy. He stands with the Presiden
in declaring that the Mexicans have
the right to work out their own destin!
even through revolution.
Closing by asking what is likel.
to happen If the presidential tile
passes into new hands," Mr.. Olne.
says that Hughes inducement t.
change the existing foreign policies o
the country will be very great
"The American people can hardl.
fail to realize the danger and to refus
to put at risk the continuance of
foreign policy which, as whole
must have their hearty approval"