The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-09

to support the candidacy of Mr.. Taft?
ITO recall Democratic platforms,
speeches and measures is to convince
any man that many of the Presidents
public u~tterances We're derived from
an avowed Familiarity with The teach
ings OF our party His u~tterances that
are Democratic have given him his only
claim to be a reformer and have con-
tributed more than all else to the popu-
larity he has enjoyed. The heir and
the party are committed to 'unfalter-
ing adherence TO the policies of the
President Wha are these policies and
what are the achievements of the Prest-
dent and party?H
Mr.. Clayton then reviewed %unfavor-
ably the administration of President
Roosevelt and continued:
IF the owe of country and liberty Is
still strong in the hearts of the Ameri-
can people; if an oath to support the
Constitution IS nav considered by them
as binding; if the people are in earnest
in their protests against the rule of in
solent wealth, the unauthorized and
baleful influence Of corporations and the
eXactions of the trusts: If the manli-
ness of the fathers has been trans
mitted to the SONS, the 4th of next
March will mark the advent of the glad
some light of Democracy and the be-
ginning of the return to constitutional
government honestly and economically
administered"
ITO the banner we raise here We in
Vite TO repair all citizens of u COM
mon country who revere the nobler
traditions of the past and who deplore
the grave alterations of the present.
Let us see to !. that this standard
shall once again float over a govern
ment resting secure OIL lasting founda-
tons.
MIR. Chairman delegates and fellow
countrymen, the time and the OCCASION
in our national affairs impose IA duty
we cannot, if we would, evade. We
must go out from this hall with one
heart and a determination to put our
loved ship of state on an even keel.
That keel has been too long beating the
air. We must bring it down into the
deep and abiding waters of the Con-
stitution."
Delay ON the Platform.
Further delay in the presentation of
the platform was indicated when late
In the morning, after extended discus
sion of the railroad plank recommended
by the subcommittee on that subject,
the main subcommittee of the COM
mittee on resolutions referred the en-
tire plank back to the small committee
to be redrawn.
The proposed plank relative to the
use of court injunctions was then taken
up in the subcommittee for discussion.
After some twenty minute of debate
the Injunction plank vas adopted with
out alteration.
The injunction plank, as adopted,
omits the requirement of notice before
the institution of injunction suits; the
view of the subcommittee being that
the necessity for notice is obviated by
the provision that labor disputes shall
be treated in this connection the same
as other controversies. The plank as
adopted does provide for jury trials in
proceedings for violation of injunction
orders.
The telegram sent Mr.. Bryan last
night in opposition to the mo notice
injunction plank by H. r. Fuller and
II. E. Wills, representing railroad en-
ployees, follows:
The subcommittee of the Demo
cratic convention on injunctions Is OPP
posed to recommending plank requir-
ing notice. AS the duly authorized rep
resentatives of the Brotherhoods o.
Locomotive Engineers, Firemen ano
Trainmen, having a membership Of
230, 600, we respectfully ask your co
operation in having such a plank
adopted, as we think it highly i'm
portant. Cannot see how Democratic
party can be embarrassed by sucl
plank, as President Roosevelt has
recommended such legislation at least
five times and Mr.. Taft favored it il
Copper Union speech"
The subcommittee proceeded with
it's labors in the presence of the full
committee, and when planks were pre-.
sented the small subcommittee tool
them up for discussion, regardless Of
the presence of the members of the full
committee.
Platform Is Patched Up.
! The work of the early morning wa!
largely of a negative character ant
consisted in the main of undoing wha
had previously been done. The incom,
a. PONlSlOli dliu lie PiONiSiOilS ne
curing foreign corporations to submit
to the laws of the States in which the!
, do business were both knocked out OF
legal objections made by Judge Parker
> Senator Daniel and others.
. The lawyers also attacked the provis
ion permitting the Interstate Commerce
Commission TO initiate rates, and at /
O'Clock 1t locke as If this paragraph
would follow the others. The discus
sion aroused much feeling and some o
the laymen We're not slow in declorrinl
that Mr.. Bryan's principles weer beinl
sacrificed to meet the technical depand
of h legal profession.
/, The rate provision was a feature q
, the rnilroad plank as it was reporte'
by the subcommittee on railroads, .
which Mr.. Sullivan, of Iowa, is chair
man. He supported it strenuously. MI
Sullivan also found occasion to defen,
the plank against attacks upon tn
provision for basing rates on the physi
= cal valuation of railroad, with which
l ! the conservative lawyers found mucl