The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-22
PICKED TO PIECES
Republican Platform Dissected
by w. ]. Bryan.
He Declares the Party Is in Full
Retreat.
INJUNCTION PLANK.
As Taft Wanted 1t and as 1t
Was Adopted.
Nearly All the Roosevelt Policies
Were Ignored.

Lincoln, June 22.-Following up his
earlier expression criticising the Re-
publican national platform in general
W. ]. Bryan has given out a statement
in which he assails in particular the
anti-injunction plank of the Chicago
declaration, characterizing it as
transparent fraud"
The statement, which will appear
under the heading, Republicans De-
ceiving the Laborer," in the next issue
of Mr. Bryan's Commoner, follows:
THE anti-injunction plank of the
Republican platform as finally adopt
ed is a transparent fraud. 1t is posi-
BILE the members of the committee
were buncoed by some trust lawyer;
that is the only charitable view that
can be taken of it. Those who advo-
Gated the plank claimed to be doing ii
as a concession to the wage earners,
and yet If one will read the plank he
will see that it is in fact an announce
ment that the Republican party is I'M
alterably opposed to the laboring
mans position. The plank reads as
follows:
The Republican party will uphold
at all times the authority and integrity
of the courts state and federal and
will ever insist that their powers to
enforce their processes and to protect
life. liberty and property shall be pre-
ever, that the rules of procedure In
federal court, with respect to the is
suance of a writ of injunction should
be more accurately defined by the
statute; that no injunction or tenn
porary restraining order should be is
sued WITHOUT notice, except where ire
parable injury would result from de-
lay, in which speedy hearing there
after should be granted
Nobody Objects.
eft will be seen that the plank be-
gins with an unnecessary eulogy OF the
| courts. Nobody is opposed to uphold
| ing at all times the authority ana IN
tegrity of the courts. Nobody Is OBJ
| jecting to the enforcement of their
| processes or to their exercises of their
| powers to protect liberty and property.
. The plank assumes that somebody is
| attacking the courts ana tnat the
| courts are in danger of losing support
| or of having their powers weakeneu'
| There is no attack upon the courts,
and there is no thought anywhere or
interfering with any function OF the
court. The Republican convention
| puts I'D a man of straw and then pro-
lceeds to demolish 1T; it suspects an
unholy assault upon the Juoiciary atu
| its righteous Indignation finds express
sion in a boastful assertion of its In
| nocence of participation in any sucn
| suspected assault. This part or the
plank was written to give assurance
| to the people who are opposed to the
laboring mans plea And now let us
| proceed to that part of the plank which
was intended as a sop to the laborins
| man. 1t says:
| 1--WE believe. however that the rules
of procedure in the federal court WITH
! resnect to the issuance of writ OF
| chnr1ld he more aCcurdIely
Idefined by the statute
lust what the definition shall be Is
not stated.
Copied the Statute.
That no injunction of temporar.
restraining order should be ISSUED
without notice except where IT.
reparable injuries would result from
DELAY. in which case a speedy hearins
thereafter should be granted. Note
the words except where irreparablt
injury would result from delay, ano
compare this exception with the feder'
al statute on the subject and you VII
find that under the law as 1t now ex'
lists the court is not empowered to
grant a temporary restraining order
except where appears to be danger OF
irreparable injury from delay. IT VII
be seen the man who wrote the IN
junction plank copies the statute al
most word for word and made the ex-
the convention had been frank in the
statement of it's position it would have
quoted the present, statute and SAID
that it was in favor of the law, just as
it is 1t would have said:
| Whereas, at present a court OIL
judge may grant a temporary restrain
ing order, If there appears to be dan
ger of irreparable injury from delay
therefore, be it resolved, that we are
opposed to changing It,
THE men who are responsible fol
the language of the injunction plank
may have fooled the rest of the com
mittee and they may have fooled the
convention but they can not fool the
laboring men or the voters in general
The Injunction plank has not even the
value of a gold plate brick for ths
plating is brass as we'll as the interior
of the brick.
| As Taft Wanted 1t.
1.-The plank as prepared in advance
of the convention by Mr.. Taft:
friends and given out on Tuesday
reads as follows:
1--WE declare for such amendment.
of the statutes of procedure in the
federal courts with respect to the use
of the writ of injunction as will on the