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RICHARD OLNEY LAUDS
PRESIDENTS RECORD
Wilson Constructive, Hughes De-
structive, Says Massachusetts
Statesman.


/ pean and Mexican affairs, the entir'
domestic Record of Achievement o
] the Wilson Administration and thu
I policies underlying it's conduct O
4 foreign relations, are praised and in
I dorsed by Richard Olney, Attorne.
\ General and Secretary OF State un
1 der the second Cleveland Admins
tration, in an article contributed tC
the New York World last week. In
terms no less vigorous, Mr.. Olney
denounced the Hughes candidacy.
No sooner was the nomination as
sured," he said of Hughes, than the
robes and the ermine of the Judge
fell from the candidate as if by
magic, and there appeared in their
place the motley wear of an ordi-
nary officeseeker-a transformation
as sudden as that made by the wand
of Harlequin il the pantomime, and
a transformation showing how thin
is the judicial veneer, and forever
discrediting the United States Su-
preme Court as training camp for
high political office"
Mr.. Olney has neither personal in
tereSt to serve nor private ambition
to advance. He does not desire Of
flee and for years has been retired
from politics. He is regarded as the
one man out OF active affairs best
qualified to speak with authority up
on the pending questions of law,
policy and craftsmanship. His utter
ance therefore is generally conceded
by independent and progressive lead
ers and newspapers to be a sound and
disinterested appeal to the good
Of
campaign document of the highest
Importance.
Mr.. Olney first reviews the Record
of Achievement, saying that the new
tariff, currency, labor, trust and ag-
ricultural extension laws represent
IAN immense body of actual achieve
ment" and that they lin their eco
nomic and humanitarian aspects are
in line with the best and most ad-
vanced thought of the time He
continues:
What is most noticeable is the
disposition of the opposition to for
get them altogether-to be discreet
ly reticent as to what of them it
hopes to do away with if it gets the
chance. Even he new eight-hour
day for railroad trainmen and the
prevented strike offer no exception.
What the opposition campaigners OBJ
ject to, including Republican Sena-
tors and Candidate Hughes himself,
is not an averted strike, but the
mode of its accomplish lishment-to-wit,
by the threat of strike within
time too short for due consideration
of necessary legislation. But twen-
ty-eight Republican Senators voted
against it-there is no cloture in the
Senate and a filibuster against OBJ
jectionable legislation is a recognized
Senatorial weapon.
why did not the Republican Sem
ators 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
messages to shington-warning
against the law the seventy Republi-
can Representative who voted for it
and urging the twenty-eight Repub-
lican Senators to filibuster to the last
ditch?
But neither he nor the Republi.
can leaders generally had the nerve
to face the situation. With ample
means in their hands to prevent leg
islation until after it's due consid-
GRAFTON, they deliberately elected that !
it should appear to be enacted under
coercion in order that, after the
great national deliverance had been ,
effected, they might object to the
mode of its accomplishment. A pet
tier and more ignoble game of poll.
ties 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"
Mr.. Olney defined the three great
objects of President Wilson's for
eign policy as Cd to keep the coun-
try out of the European War, CD to
insist upon the vitality of interna-
tional law and 90 to deal with
Mexico in spirit of perfect friend
illness and fairness. In all three, Mr..
Olney said, Mr.. Wilson has been sue
cessful and without sacrifice of ma
tional honor or essential right.
president Wilson is not the only
President who, while quite alive to
wrongs done the country or it's citi-
Zens, has felt that redress must wait
until it could be enforced as we'll as
demanded" Mr.. Olney writes. THE
vogue of Lincoln has lately been
much in evidence and eX-PreSidentS
and others have not been averse to
finding resemblances between him
and themselves. Yet, pending the
Civil War, Lincoln did not go to
war with England over the depreda-
tions of the Confederate cruisers fit
ted out in England; nor, pending the
Civil War, was Louis Napoleon re-
quested to withdraw his soldiers
from Mexico.
In view of the extraordinary diff
ficulties of the situation, the Admin
istration is to be credited with a
prudence and patience which has
kept our naturally warlike people
out of the great European struggle,
as we'll as with a diplomacy which
has halted, in part at least, the use
How Catarrh is Contracted.
/ Mothers are sometimes SO thought
less as to neglect the colds which
their children contract. The in
1 fammation of the mucus membrane,
at first acute, becomes chronic and
the child has chronic catarrh, dis
ease that is seldom cured and that
may prove a life's burden. Many
persons who have this loathsome
disease will remember having had
frequent colds at the time it was
contracted. A little forethought, a
bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy judiciOusly used, and all this
trouble might have been avoided.
OBJ ainable everywhere