Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-08
CHAIRMAN MACK ARRIVES IN
CHICAGO AND SAYS CAMPAIGN
WILL BE PusHED-NAMEs MEM
BERs OF FINANCE COMMITTEE.
BRYAN REPLIES !.
TO VAN CLEAVE
MAKES STATEMENT IN REPLY
TO CIRCULAR ISSUED BY MANU-
FAcTURERs' HEAD DEFENDING
INJUNCTION PLANK.

Chicago, Aug. Z. ~ The headquar-
ters of the Democratic national COM
mittee in Chicago were formally open
ed today on the arrival of Norman y.
Mack, the national chairman, who an
nounced that from now on until cleo
ton day the Democratic campaign Will
be waged actively throughout the
country. Mack issued call to the
heads of the various sub committees
to meet here Monday to confer on the
general plans for the campaign which
had been outlined.
Mack Names Money Getters.
Buffalo, N. Y, Aug. chairman
Norman e. Mack Of the democratic
committee announced last night before
his departure for Chicago the ap-
pointment of a finance committee for
the Democratic campaign with Moses
G. Wetmore of ST. Louis as chairman
and John e. Osborne Of Wyoming as
vice chairman, and speakers COM
mittee with John H. Atwood of Kan
sas as chairman and Champ Clark Of
Missouri as vice chairman. The II
nance committee is made up Of TWEEN
ty-nine members and the speakers,
committee is composed of twenty-sev-
en- members.
Bryan Wants Pure Politics.
8 Warsaw, Ind, Aug. IT, In letter
addressed to thousand residents OF
fWinona Lake and Bay City, and re-
ceived by them today, William ]. Bry-
an sends greetings to the members OF
the Juvenile municipality. He takes
occasion to compliment the youngsters
for the manner they are handling pol
itics, which he says, speaking general
ly, are in need of publication.
Bryan Replies to Van Cleave.
Mr.. Bryan has issued a statement
replying to circular issued some
weeks ago by the National Association
of Manufacturers and signed by Jas.
w. Van Cleave.
Mr.. Bryan declares that the pamph-
: let of Mr. Van Cleave's raises two
questions-first, is there anything in
the labor plank of the Democratic plat
form to which business men can just
ly take exception? and, second, lB
the labor question so important to
business men as to justify them In ig-
noring all other issues?
Mr.. Bryan declares that the provis-
ion in the Democratic platform for the
creation of a labor department with
cabinet officer at it's head cannot
possibly offend business men.
He then says:
"The platform draws a distinction
between association of wage-earners
organized for the protection of wages
and the Improvement of labor condi
tions and industrial corporations which
act in restraint of trade. The differ
otp 10 ,i7o ON n
a trust is so apparent that no disinter
ested person will deny that they should
be treated separately. To class tbs
two kinds of organizations together
and deal with them under one law is
bound to do injustice to one or the
other Surely the business men can
have no vital concern a including the
labor organizations in the antitrust
laws"
Right to Jury Trial.
Mr. Bryan then takes up the plank
providing for trial by jury in cases
of indirect contempt. He insists thai
this cannot raise a question of vita
concern to business men, because ev
cry man has a right to jury trial
"But there is another labor plank
that Mr. Van Cleave probably has ii
mind. This is the lank that declares
that parties to all judicial proceeding
should be treated with rigid impair
tiality, and that an injunction should
not issue in any case in which an in
junction would not lie if no industria
dispute were involved
..Do the business men insist upor
partiality in judicial proceedings? d.
they insist that the mere fact tha
there is an industrial dispute should
justify an injunction? That planl
does not attempt to interfere with the
issue of an injunction where othe
conditions justify it, but it does op
pose the issue of an Injunction merel.
for the purpose of bringing the cour
into the discussion of an industria
dispute."