The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-10-27
ATTACK
 IGNOBLE SAYS OLNEY
Hughes Hadn't the Nerve" to Demand FiIbuster in the Sen-
 ate Against the Law.
WILSON'S ACT COURAGEOUS
Member of cIeveland's Cabinet Praises Presidents Domestic Achieve ments and Policy of
 AVerting War.

No American can speak with hi gher 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 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 a retired statesman, of wise, experienced, dis passionate patriot, who is concerned only with the welfare of his country. MT. Olney has written for the New York World 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 Hughes Nerve7
 Discussing the passage of the Adam son eight-hour law, MT. 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 filibus- ter, as a recognized Senatorial wea- pon, and adds:
 "Why did not the Republican sena- tors resort to 1t and get all the time for deliberation they wanted2 What was Candidate Hughes doing that he did not make the wires hot with messages to Washington-warnin against the law the seventy-four Re- publican Representatives who voted for it and urging the twenty-eight Re- publican Senators 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 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 it's 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"
 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 or- dinary office seeker-a transforma- ton as sudden as that made by the wand of Harlequin in the pantomime, and a 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 it's conduct of foreign relations the Wilson Administration, MT. Olney says, "has kept its 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 MT. 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-
 tional 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
 in state of anarchy.
 MT. Olney shows that all these ob- jects have been attained through the wise, patient and courageou dfplo- macy of Woodrow Wilson; that the President has kept the country at peace without dishonor; that under his leadership "the United States has rendered an inestimable service to belligerents and neutrals and to all III SlSdully dlOIl the banner of international law as the standard under which all civilized peoples 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 destiny even through revolution.
 Closing by asking what is likely to happen if the Presidential tiller passes into new hands," MT. Olney says that Hughes inducement to change the existing foreign policies of the country will be very great.
 "The American people can hardly fail to realize the danger and to refuse to put at risk the continuance of a foreign policy which, as whole, Dnuct haOa thair hearty aDnFOval