Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-03
CANDIDATES TO
LET PLATFORM
PLANKS ALONE
DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES GIVE
OUT POLICY
BRYAN TO ACT, HOWEVER, If IN
TERFERENcE is NEEDED
Anti-lnJunctlon Resolution viii Be
aightforward, but Provide for
Writs on Ex-Parte
Hearings

BY Associated Press.
LINCOLN, Neb., July 2.-Sifting the
statement made by delegates after
talking with Mr.. Bryan today it may
safely be stated that the Democratic
presidential candidates will leave the
platform makers and the vice presi-
dent canvass alone.
Only urgent necessity such as threat
ened the passage of plank repugnant
to what the Nebraskan considers pro-
gressive Democratic doctrine, or con-
siderable move in favor of some vice
presidential candidate whose views and
political practice are antagonistic to
the platform, will constrain Mr.. Bryan
to interfere.
However should occasion arise for in
reference, Mr. Bryan has provided a
means for prompt action. Lincoln will
be in close telegraphic touch with the
convention hall and Fairview will be
in direct and continuous touch by tele-
phone with the telegraph office.
The Lincoln hotel lobby, in small
way today was reminiscent of Chicago
hotels during the Republican conven-
ton. Politics formed the one topic of
conversation. The general sentiment
was that the anti-injunetion section of
the declaration of policy should (and
would be- straightforward, but that
some provision for the issuance of
writs on ex parte hearings, in extreme
cases, should be retained. The dele
gates seem to take it for granted that
other features urged by labor organ
izations would be embodied in the
plank.
One Dscordant Note
The one discordant note was sounded
by Bird S. Coler, who declared he
stood squarely in favor of the plank
urged by Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor
Timothy Ryan of Waukesha, Wis,
member of the national committee, de-
clares a large number of La Toilette
Republicans of his state will flock to
the Democratic standard this fall be-
cause their leader and his measures
were given such an uncordial reception
by the Republican convention.
This afternoon Mr.. Farnsworth tele-
graphed to Charles s. Towne at Dem
yer that he had canvassed the vice
| presidential sentiment among the dele
gates at Lincoln today and found en-
| couraging symptoms In favor of the
candidacy of Mr.. Towne--
The Kern "boom" for vice president
gained no particular impetus today. Mr..
| Kern declared he was not a candidate
and would endeavor to keep his name
, from being mentioned in the conven-
| tion. Some of the delegates were in
/ clined to take Mr.. Kern at MS WORD,
and others, notably Mr.. Kahn, de-
clared that Indiana would make a fight
| for him.
The Commoner in it's issue tomorrow
will claim SO7 delegates instructed and
favorable to Bryan, not including the
six delegates instructed for him by the
Montana convention today.
Those who have seen the proof sheets
of tomorrow's issue attach some sig
nficance to the following with regard
to William r. Hearst:
1.-The Republican papers are quick to
assume that Mr.. Hearst will oppose
the Democratic ticket. They ought to
give Mr.. Hearst credit for having
made a fight for certain well defined
reforms they ought to give him credit
for sincerity in advocating those re-
forms; they ought to know that his
strength, like the strength of others
who are strong with the masses, is due
| to the strength of the reforms to
which he has attached himself.
1.-THE candidates, too, may have some
influence in determining Mr.. Hearsts
action and the organization of the ma
tional convention is factor to be con-
sidered. The general trend and spirit
of the convention also to have weight
in determining with what force the
Democratic party will be able to ap-
peal to the men who are contained
with the Independence party" y