Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-24
FRENCH LICK FARLEY
MANY SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE
PLATFORM.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FRENCH LICK, IL6.. November o.
The members of rhe democratic national
committee gave a part of today to tho
consideration of CITIES which want the
next national conversion and the rest and
major part to specuiations regarding can
didates and platforms. In respect to the
latter it was said that the money aues-
ton and the Philippine question would
have no place In the next campaign. and
1t is doubtful IL the platform so much az
mentions the subject.
On the other hand. 1t was the general
belief that there would be a strong plank
in favor Of tariff reform. a revision
with a marked lowering of the schedules
and the entire elimination of some and
another plank demanding such control OF
corporations as will protect the people
against aggression and Stockholders
against such manipulations as have been
praeticed by some of the large stock
holders.
1t developed in some of the conversations
among members of the committee that
there Is a feeling even among democrats
that the attitude of the President. which
has won encomiums from Bryan. Is more
radical In regard to corporations than
they would care to go in a latform. and
1t was suggested that the plat form COM
mittee and Mr.. Bryan might lind them
selves very wide apart when it came to
making a announcement against great
corporations.
Corporations and Votes
1t was pointed out that the party lost
votes in all of the last three national
campaigns because of its attitude toward
corporations in general and largely for
the reason that they are all large en-
ployers of labor and that vote went to
the republicans because II saw In the
trend of the Democratic party a disposi-
ton to curtail the power of the employer.
and therefore lint his ability to emp oy
men and pay good wages.
The suggestion that the labor vote or
the country was lost to the party in the
three campaigns brought out the fact
that there will be pronounced opposition
to any utterance in the platform that
could be construed to fndorse the de-
mand of organized labor for an anti
Injunction law. The committeeman did
not commit themselves further on the
| subject than to say it was not worth
while to inject a labor question into the
campaign at all. for they recognized that
the injunction in labor disputes has ends
to serve that could not be accomplished
in any other way, and that the principle
is to thoroughly fix in our Jurisprudence
that it would be unwise to interfere with
it's operations.
Talk About CHAMBER,
There was more talk of Chanler today
than on any day OF the meeting. He has
some friends here who are very actively
at work for him. They assert that he
will go into the convention with New
York, New Jersey and the New England
states and possibly two or three in the
west. Bryan's friend, smile at these
claims however, and say their favorite
will win by reclamation.
Chicago Louisville and other cities pre-
scented their claims today. and were In
vited to come to Washington December
| II and make definite offers to the full
committee Chicago seemed today to have
| the call so far as the members here are
| concerned