Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-23
Ellis R[FD1[S Bryan
Platform Maker Declares Attack
on Republican planks is
Unworthy
INJUNCTION PLANK IS JUST
Ohio Man Shows Logical Need For
Declaration. on the ouestion-Mitch-
ell Stays Out of Polities-Johnson
Wont Accept Second Place on Demo-
cratic Ticket.

General Wade IL ELLIS of Ohio, who
was a member Of the committee on
resolutions of the republican national
convention and chief author of the
platform adopted, in statement is-
sued replies to criticisms of the plat
form made by w. ]. Bryan and de-
MES emphatically that the draft of the
platform as published prior to the con-
.vention YVES charged with the tnten-
tion to dlsplease or disappoint the
president or Secretary Taft" The at
torney generals statement in part fol-
lows:
"Of the seven omissions he (Mr.
Bryan) refers to, six are in no sense
issues before the people at this time,
nor has there been any attempt to
make them such by the administration,
nor by any other influential element
in the party The seventh concerns in
functions. Upon this subject Mr.. Bry-
ans criticism exhibits his usual reck-
lessness Of statement and readiness to
assume that his own lack of informa-
ton must be the prevailing condition.
The charge that the republican dec
laration with respect to the use of the
writ Of injunction was designed to de-
ceive the laboring men Is unworthy OF
a candidate for president, and the fur
,ther change that this plank merely
Oh q xu a will give
no relief In those cases in which there
has been an abuse OF discretion or the
apprehension of 1t, is unworthy Of any
lawyer who has examined this ques-
ton.
Others Seek to Deceive.
"The anti-injunction resolution is a
frank, clear statement of the republic
can party's position on a question on
which others have been attempting to
deceive labor. The sole basis Of any
rational complaint as to the Issuance
Of injunctions in labor cases has been
the use Of the writ without notice and
the long delays in some instances
which have interviewed before hearing
of the case. The present statute does
not require any notice at all before the
granting Of a temporary order, and it
is entirely within the discretion OF the
court to postpone to any time the
judge may see fit the hearing upon the
question Of an injunction.
The republican plank simply de-
clares that notice shall always be given
unless an irreparable injury will result
from delay, and, in that case, there
shall be a speedy hearing provided. In
other words the platform declaration
is designed to give assurance that what
is now the general practice in the fed
eral courts shall be made universal
by statute, in order that hereafter no
cause of complaint or misapprehensio
shall remain. This may not satisfy
the extremists on either hand, but 1t
was not expected to do that. 1t Will
meet the approval Of every right think
ing man, whether an employer or an en-
ploye. No party can lose by brave
ly taking a stand for what is right,
whoever complains, Just as none can
profit by taking a stand for what is
wrong, whoever applauds.
"Mr. Bryan objects further to the
phrase in the injunction plank which
proclaims confidence in the integrity OF
the courts. It Is true, perhaps, that
the convention which is yet to meet
at Denver, rather than that which has
tust adjourned at Chicago, should ex-
press faith in the integrity OF the
courts: but in view Of the democratic
attack in 1896, and the fact that the
same forces which then controlled that
party are once again in supreme COM
nnond II would seem entirely apprOpri-
ate for the republican party not only
to remove any possible cause OF COM
plant in the use Of the writ of In
junction, but to make 1t clear that 1t
would resent again, as it did in 1896
any attempt to assail the judiciary.
'All that any one wants is that the
powers Of the federal courts with re-
spect to the use Of injunction shall be
accurately defined by statute, to the
end that all occasion for complaint in
labor cases, which happily have been
rare in the past, shall disappear alto
gether In the future. The republican
plank points to simple and straight
forward way of achieving this pur-
pose"
Mitchell Won't Accept.
Chicago, June 23.-Uohn Mitchell,
former president of the Mine Work
ers' union Of America, refused last
night to run for governor Of Illinois
on the democratic ticket. This carries
with 1t a refusal to be a candidate
for the vice presidency. Mr. Mitchelps
position is that he is not much of a