The Republican journal., 1908-07-02
ELLIS DEFENDS INJUNCTION PLANK.
He Declares Bryan's Attack Upon 1t I'm
worthy of a Candidate for President or
Any LAWYER.

He Declares Bryan's Attack Upon 1t I'm
worthy of Candidate for President OF
Any Lawyer.
COLUMBUS, O., June %. Attorney
General Wade H. Ellis of Ohio, who
was a member of the committee on
resolutions of the Republican National
convention, replies to criticisms of the
platform made by w. j. Bryan. The
attorney generals statement, IN part,
follows:
The charge made by Mr.. Bryan that
the Republican declaration with respect
to the use of the writ of injunction was
designed to deceive the laboring man.
is unworthy of candidate for Presi,
dent. and the further charge that this
plank merely declares the existing law
and will give no relief in those cases in
which there has been an abuse of dis
erection or the apprehension of it, is un-
worthy of any lawyer who has examined
this question. The antiinjunction reso-
luton is a frank, clear statement of the
Republican party's position on ques-
ton on which others have been at
tempting 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 with
out notice and the long delays in some
instances which have interviewed before
a hearing of the case.
The present statute does not require
any notice at all before the granting OF
temporary order, and 1t 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 declares
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 de
signed to give assurance that what is
now the general practice in the Federal
courts shall be made universal by stat
ute, in order that hereafter no cause of
complaint or mlsapprehenslon shall re-
main. This may not satisfy the ex-
tremists on either hand, but it was not
expected to do it. 1t will meet the APP
prevail of every right-thlnklng man,
whether an employer or an employee;
Mr.. Bryan objects further to the
phrase in the injunction plank which
proclaims confidence in the integrity OF
the courts. 1t is true, perhaps, that
the convention which is yet to meet at
Denver rather than that which has Just
adjourned at Chicago should express
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 command 1t
would seem entirely appropriate for
the Republican party not only to re-
move any possible cause of complaint,
in the use of the writ of Injunction, but
to make it clear that it would resent
again as it did in 1896 any attempt TO
assai the judiciary.
All that anyone wants is that powers
of the Federal courts with respect TO
the use Of injunction shall be accurate,
defined by statute to the end that all
occasions for complaint in labor cases,
which happily have been rare IN the
past, shall disappear altogether IN the
future. The Republican plank points
to a simple and straightforward way OF
achieving this purpose.