The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-17
SEATTLE MEN
RALLY To BRYAN
ENTHUSIASTIC SPEECH MADE BY
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN OF
DENVER CONVENTION.


an at Labor Temple Saturday night
by Judge Theodore A. Bell, of Napa,
Cal, past grand worthy president OF
the Fraternal Order of Eagles, AMI
temporary chairman of the Denver
enthusiastic outburst of applause that
lasted several minutes. A crowd of or
ganized workingmen and their wives
! filled the auditorium at the temple to
hear Judge Bell and the other speak
ers. and the enthusiasm at times all
but drowned the magnetic voice of the
speaker.
John S Parry. of San Francisco, sec
rotary of the Union Labor party, OF
California, presided at the meeting.
| The speakers aside from Judge Bell,
were Frank E. Herring, of South Bend,
Ind, and DR.. Charles lehman, of Okla
homa City, Okla.
Congressman William SulZer, OF
New York, and Edward Hirsch, pres
ident of the Baltifore Federation of
Labor, were also scheduled to speak.
| but Mr.. Sulzer was out of town and
Mr.. Hirsch was obliged to start for
home
F.! Judge Bell was introduced by Mr.
Parry, and spoke in part as follows:
when your committee waited upon
/, be present tonight. a special request
was made that l touch particularly
! upon some special questions that
seemed to be of paramount interest
at this time to the working people II
our country. but l want to admOnish
you at the outset that no man can dis
cuss the question of injunctions in an
intelligent manner showing it up IN
all its phases and all its bearings with
out discussing other great national
questions
Citizens of Republic.
'The laboring men of this country
must not be deluded with the idea that
the writ of injunction as it has been
used by some of the courts of this
country stands in category by is
self. because it does not, and moreover,
l refuse to place myself in that posi-
ton where l would appeal to any labor
ign man to sacrifice every other prln-
the purpose of getting what he wants
upon one particular issue before the
American people. (Applause.) And
when l address you as members of or
ganized labor, l am going to address
YOU in the larger sense as citizens OF
this greatest republic on the face of
the earth.
Il wish to introduce what 1 have to
saw generally with special remarks di-
rceted toward this great overshadow-
ing question to the laboring interests,
that of the writ of injunction. We
ought to start out in approaching this
, great question with this one premise
| upon which all of our citizens can
| unite irrespective of our political faith.
| that the courts of the country are en-
titled to our deepest respect; that the
courts must be considered as sacred
! institutions within the jurisdiction
| that is conferred upon them by the
people themselves.
And in urging a modification of
the laws governing the issuance of the
writ of injunction we should do so
with this fact clearly in our minds.
that the courts. while they are entitled
to a certain amount of sanctity and
respect, they are not divine institu-
! tons (Applause) They were created
by men: they are human institutions;
! they are presided over by human be-
| ings and the people of this country
I uniting in their collective capacity,
through the regular channels of legis-
lation have surrendered from them
selves to the courts certain rights,
certain prerogatives and conferred
upon them certain jurisdiction. We
can all agree upon that.
1.-The question before the people and
| before you at this time is simply this:
/ If there has been an abuse of power
| if men who wear the ermine and have
assumed the great powers of the judi
| ciary. even through ignorance or bias
or prejudice or influence of an Interior
character have dared to in any way so
| far forget the duty that they owe to
| the people and to their country as to
distort and to abuse the powers that
have been placed in their trust, the
people of this country. in order that
there shall be no oppression by our
judiciary. should insist that there
should be correction of the law, if