The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-29
lFormer Cabinet Officer Is sues Striking Document That Brings Confusion to GJO. P. Leaders, Who Have Used His Name In Criticisms of Administra- tion.

tion.
 neclares That Conduct of
 Candidate Hughes Has
 Brought Discredit to the
 United States Supreme
 Court Petty Politics In / Railway Strike Crisis Are
 Reviewed.
 j(Written for Tho New York World by
 Richard Olney, Secretary of State
 and Attorney General Under Pres
 ident Grover Ceveland)
 The acceptance speech of President Wilson is now before the country having been awaited with intense ln- terest by political friends and po- Ilitical opponents and by all classes or Icitizens. It was expected to be, as II lis. a statement of the claims of him. 4self and his party to be continued lin the administration of the nat1onai ,government.
 It also was expected to be, as 1t IS, ia masterly and appealing statement or those claims In that respect the reality probably exceeds expectation. While. as a literary composition, It IS Iof the highest order, it is even more remarkable as a record of the work lof the administration during the last lqonr years. and of the many different land very extraordinary problems II has been forced to deal with.
 The President has so informed, in nnired. and guided his party during his official term that the adminlstra- l4ion and himself are practically one land the same. Its work naturally d. lvides itself into two parts-one deal ling with domestic affairs an0 the Iother with foreign relations. p Y As regards the former, the Presl- dent rightly calls attention to a mass of constructive legislation which un- ldoubtedly is a. surprise to the coun- trv. both by it's amount and by the variety of the subjects dealt with. For Ithe long list of accomplishments upon (which the administration nay 1ustiy lpride itself, reference should be had Ito the speech itself.
 2 But it may be well to note in pass ' ing that, besides the two great meas Iures by which an archaic tar1H mas been reformed and provision made TOT Ireasonable tariffs in the future and Inv which a chaotic financial and cur lrencv system has been supplanted by lone adapted to the requirements of lthe modern business world-two 7 measures of themselves sufficient to make any administration worthy ol tthe highest praise-besides these me- { mnrable measures, others have pro- v;ded for a reasonable income tax flor facilitating the transa ctions of business through the Clayton act and the Federal Trade Commission, TOT nromoting the agricultural interests Iof thee ountry through rural organl- lzation and system of rul al credits flor a labor bureau to consider the problems of labor generally and ol unemployment in particular, for gooo roads, for railroad development 1T Alaska, for national safeguards ol >Ichild labor, for adequate preparation flor the national defense and for ar Ieight-hour day for railroad trainmer land the prevention of nationwide railroad strike.
 While the foregoing list of topics if mot exhaustive it represents an i'm nnense body of actual achievement. II is not necessary to claim that all the measures referred to are beyond .crltl- i. cisn either in general cope and pur- nose or in point of detail. But it may safely be affirmed that, as rule, they are steps in the right direction and, il ,their economic and Humanitarian as ipects are in line with the best anc { most advanced thought of the time. .4 What is most noticeable is the dis Sirosition of the opposition to forge +%efiI altogether-to be discreetly reti' <cent as to what of therp it hopes toSdt away with if it gets the chance. Ever tthe new eight-hour day for railroad ftrainmen and the prevented strike of fer no exception. What the opposition cempaigners object to, including Re lplrblican senators and Candidate Hughes himself. is not an avertet strike but the mode of it's accomplish. ment-to wit, by the threat of a stri%' within a time too short for due con ,eideration of necessary legislation. Bu l9S Republican senators voted agains Iit-there is no cloture in the Senate and a filibuster against objectionable Legislation is a recognized senatoria weapon.
 Why did not the Republican sena tors resort to it and get all the tint for deliberation they wanted? Wha was Candidate Hughes doing that ht did not make the wires hot with mes eages to Washington-warnin agafns the law the "A Republican representa- lives who voted for it and urging thu 2s Republican senators to filibuster tt the last ditch?
 But neither he nor the Republican , leaders generally had the nerve to fac' the situation. With ample means 1T their hands to iphevent legislation unti after it's due consideration. they delib. erateJy elected that it should appear to be enacted under coercion in order that, after the great national deliver ance had been effected, they might ob: ject to the mode of its accomplish. rnent. A pettier and more ignoblt game of politics never was conceived In comparison, and in view of the sud den and extraordinary exisency sprung upon the country. President Wilson's