The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-22
WEAK PLANK IS EXPOSED Bryan Says Republican Platform is a Fraud. DUPLIcITY Is APPARENT Anti-Injunction Clause Copied from Statutes. Nebraskan Say. This rhraseolssy May Have Essied the Convention But
 f wad Not Deceive La-
 boring Men.

+AtHC0Aus Neb-s June Zl.--FOilOW1nE up his expression of yesterday in crit icism of the Republican national plat form, William J. Bryan gave out to- night statement in which he assails 1 in particular the antf-injunction plank of the Chicago declaration, character izing it as Transparent fraud" The statement follows:
 The anti-injunction plank of the Re- publican platform as finally adopted is + q transparent fraud. It Is possible that the members of the committee were buncoed by some trust Iawyer--- that is the only charitable view that can be taken of 1t. Those who advo- cated the plank claimed to be doing it as concession to the wage-earners ] and yet if one will read the plank he will see that it is in fact announcement that the Republican Party is unaiter- I ably opposed to the laborIng mans po- | sftion. The plank reads as follows:
 The Republican Party will uphold at all times the authority and integ- rity of the courts. State and Federal and will ever insist that their power to enforce their processes and to pro- tect life, liberty and property shall be preserved inviolate. We believe how ever, that the rules of procedure in Federal courts with respect to the fs- suance of writ of injunction should be more accurately defined by, the stat ute that no injunction or temporary re- 1 straining order should be issued with- out notice. except where irreparable injury would result from delay. in which case q speedy hearing thereaf- ter be granted.
 An Apology to Courts. Tt will be seen the plank begins with an unnecessary eulogy of the icourts. Nobody Is opposed to uphold- I ing at all times the authority and fin. tegrtty of the courts. Nobody is ob- jectiny to the enforcement of their. I processes or of their exercise of their powerg te protect life, liberty and 4 pyepsFty, The plank assumes that somebcdy is attacking the courts and that the courts are in danger of losing l support or of having their powers weakened. There is no attack upon 1 the courts and there Is no thought any- where of interfering with any legiti- mate function of the courts. The Re. publican convention puts up a man of straw and then proceeds to demollsh it..
 This part of the plank was writ ten to give assurance to the people who are opposed to the laboring mans plea. And now let us proceed to that I part of the plank which was intended as sop to the laboring man. It says:
 swe believe. however, that the rules of procedure in the Federal l Court with respect % the issuance of a writ of injunction should be more accurately defined by the statute. . Gust what the definition shall be is not stated.)
 That no injunction or temporary restraining order should be issued with out notice except where irreparable injury would result from delay, in which case a speedy hearing thereaf. | a he except where irreparab1e injury would result from delay and compare this exception with the Federal statute. on the subject and you will find that under the law as 1t now exists the court Is not empowered to grant a temporary restraining order except where there appears to be danger of ireparable in- juy from delay.
 It will be seen that the man who wrote the injunction plank copied the statute almost word for word and made the exception as broad as the statute l If the convention had been frank in the statement of it's position 1t would have quoted the present statute and say that 1t was in favor of enforcing the law just as 1t iS. It would have read: Whereas. at present a court or judge may grant a temporary restrain ing order If there appears to be dam ger of irreparable injury from delay. . | TneretOre De IL TeBOlVed, LndI We are opposed to changing it."
 Cannot Fool Labor.
 "The men who are responsible for the language of the injunction plank may have fooled the convention, but they cannot fool the laboring men or the voters in general. The injunction plank has not even the value of a gold plate brick, for the plating is brass as we'll as the interior of the brick l y,lr rad fT4 oR the convention by MT. Taft's friends and given out on Tuesday. read as fol- I lows: We declare for such amend ments of the statutes of procedure in the Federal courts with respect to the use of the writ of injunction as will, on the one hand, prevent the summary issue of such orders without proper consideration and on the other will preserve undiminished the power of the courts to enforce their process to the end that justice may be done at all times and to all parties.'
 'It will be noticed that in this plank the declaration in favor of amendments vor of preserving undiminished the power of the courts to enforce their process comes afterwards. In the plank as adopted, by the convention, the declaration in favor of the courts comes first and the discussion of a change fin the law comes afterwards.
 "If the demand of the laboring man was unreasonable, why did not the con- vention say SO? Why did 1t resort to deception? The Republican party will find that an honest course would have been safer than the dishonest course being pursued.
 "Secretary Taft Is known as the father of government by injunction. and his speech in Oklahoma last year gave conclusive proof of his adherence to the position taken by him on the bench He is still in favor of the use of writ of injunction in labor cases, and he Is opposed to trial by jury.
 Taft and IniunctiOnS.
 "In @ speech delivered in New York last winter. he said. in response to questions. that the law ought to be so amended as to give a hearing before the injunction was granted, and even consented that the hearing for con- tempt should be brought before a dif- ferent judge from the one who granted