The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-10-12
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E|GHT-H0UR ATTACK
IGNOBLE. SAYS OLNEY
Hughes Hadn't the Nerve" to
Demand FiIlbuster in the Sen
ate Against the Law.
WILSON'S ACT COURAGEOUS
Member Of CleveIsnd's Cabinet Praises
Presidents Domestic Achieve
nents and Policy of
Avertinq 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 Clevelands 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 a surrender to force;
whether the Wilson foreign policy has
been 'timid and vacillating".
Mr.. 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
Mr.. 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.
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 consideration of the bill, could
have obtained it by means Of a filibus-
ter, as recognized Senatorial wea-
pom, and adds:
"Why did not the Republican Sena-
tors resort to 1t and get all the time
for deiberation they wanted7 What
was Candidate Hughes doing that he
did not make the wires hot with
messages to Washinaton--warni
against the law the seventy-four Re-
publican Representatives who voted
for it and urging the twenty-eIqht Re.
publican Senators to filibuster to the
last ditch?
"But neither he nor the Republican
leaders generally had the nerve to face
the situation With ample means IL
their hands to prevent legislation und
after its due consideration, they de
liberately elected that it should appeal
to be enacted under coercion in ordel
that, after the great national deliver
ance had been effected, they nigh
object to the mode Of its accomplish
! ment
"a pettier and more ignobIe game o
politics never was conceived. In com
parison, and in view Of the sudden an,
extraordinary exigency sprung upol
the country, President Wilson's cours
was characterized by both courage ant
common sense"
OF Candidate Hughes conduct in tn,
campaign, Mr.. Olney remarks:
mo sooner was the nomination as
sured than the robes and ermine o.
the Judge fell from the candidate Al
If by magic, and there appeared il
their place the motley wear Of the or
binary office seeker-a transforma
ton as sudden as that made by tn,
wand of Harlequin in the pantomime
and transformation showing how
thin Is the judicial veneer, and for
ever discrediting the United States
Supreme Court as a training CAM
for high political Office"
7aS Ncpk nuouef true
In its conduct of foreign relations
the Wilson Administration, Mr.. Olne,
says, "has kept its rudder true ant
has won and deserved the respect ant
gratitude Of the country"
The principles and objects Of tn,
Wilson foreign policy as stated b,
Mr. 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-
uonal law as determining its 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 friendliness to
the Mexican people, now suffer
ing from civil dissensions and
revolution to an extent which
leaves large part of the country
I'm state of anarchy.
Mr.. Olney shows that all these OBJ
iects have been attained through thu
wise, patient and courageous diplo
macy of Woodrow Wilson: that tn,
President has kept the country a
peace without dishonor; that undel
his leadership 'the United States ha.
rendered an inestimable service t.
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 President
in declaring that the Mexicans have
the right to work out their own destiny
even through revolution.
Closing by asking what is likely
10 happen if the Presidential tiller
passes into new hands," Mr.. Olney
says that Hughes inducement to
change the existing foreign policies OF
the country will be very great
1.-The American people can hardly
| fail to realize the danger and to refuse
| to put at risk the continuance Of o