Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-10-13
EIGHT HOUR ATTACK
IGNOBLE, SAYS OLNEY
Hughes Hadn't the Nerve" to
Demand FiHbuSter on the Law.
WILSON'S ACT COURAGEOUS


paign than Richard Olney who was
President Cleveland's 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 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 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.
Where Was 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
sages to Washineton-warnin against
the law the seventy -four Republican
representatives who voted for il and
urging the twenty eight Republican
senators to filibuster to the last ditch2
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 delib-
erately elected that it should appear to
he enacted under coercion IN order that
after the great national deliverance
had been effected they might object to
the mode Of its accomplishment.
"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"
OF Candidate Hughes conduct in the
campaign Mr.. Olney remarks:
i mo 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
Iequin in the pantomime, and a trans
formation showing how thin is the ju-
dicial veneer, and forever discrediting
the United States supreme court as a
training camp for high political office"
Has Kept the Rudder True.
In it's conduct Of foreign relations
the Wilson administration, Mr.. Oney
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 neStral, 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 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 dipIo.
macy of Woodrow Wilson; that the
president has kept the country at
peace without dishonOr; that under his
leadership 1.-The United States has rem
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 PEG.
pies must eventually gather"
Mr.. 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 tillel
passes into new hands," Mr.. Olney
says that Hughes inducement to
change the existing foreign policies OF
the country would be very great.
'HThe American people can hardly
fail to realize the danger and to re-
fuse to put at risL tie continuance OF
foreign policy which, as a whole
must have their hearty approval"