The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-23
Wade H. Ellis Replies to VIM.
Jennings Bryan's Attack on
Anti-injunction Measure in
Platform.
BRYAN'S OBJECTIONS
ARE ALL ANSWERED.
Insinuation That Party Is Try
ing to Deceive Labor, Un-
worthy of Presidential Can
didate.

Columbus, o., June 2S.-A:torney
General Wade H. Ellis of Ohio. who
was member of the committee on
resolutions of the Republican national
convention and chief author of the
platform adopted. in statement is
sued last night replies TO criticisms
of the platform made by William Jen-
nings Bryan and denies that the draft
OF the platform, as published prior TO
the convention. was changed with the
intention TO displease or disappoint the
President or Secretary Taft"
The attorney generals statement in
part follows:
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 administra-
tion nor by any other influential ele-
ment in the party.
The seventh concerns injunctions.
Upon this subject Mr.. Bryan's criti-
cism exhibits his usual recklessness
of statement and readiness to assume
that his own lack of information must
be the prevailing condition.
The charge 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 President, 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 abuse of discretion or the ap-
prehension of IL is unworthy of any
| lawyer who has examined this ques.
tion.
Frank, Clear Statement.
"The anti-injunction resolution is
| frank. clear statement of the Republi-
can partys 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 a hear
ing of the case.
The present statute does not re-
quire any notice at all before the
granting of a temporary order and II
is entirely within the discretion of the
judge may see fit, the hearing upon the
question of an injunction.
The Republican plank simply de-
clares that notice shall always be Civ
en- unless an irreparable injury will
result from delay and, in that case,
there shall be a speedy hearing pro-
vided. In other words, the platform
| declaration is designed to give assur-
ance that what is now the general
practice in the federal courts shall be
made universal by statute. in order
that hereafter no cause of complaint
or Misrepresentation shall remain.
/ This may not satisfy the extrem-
lists on either hand, but II was not ex-
pected to do that II will meet the
approval of every right thinking man,
whether an employer or an employe.
No party can lose by bravely taking
a stand for what is right, whoever
/ complains, just as none can profit by
4 taking a stand for what is wrong.
whoever applauds.
Il Defense Of the Courts.
/ Mr. Bryan objects further to the
phrase in the Injunction plank which
proclaims confidence in the integri-
| ty of the courts. IL 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 1895 and the fact that the
same forces which then controlled
that party are once again in supreme
command ii would seem entirely ap-
propriate for the Republican party not
only to remove any possible cause OF
complaint in the use of the writ OF
| Injunction, but TO make IL clear that
il would resent again. as il did in 1896
/ any attempt to assail the judiciary.
| -All that any one wants is that pow
ers of the federal courts, with respect
to the use of Injunction. shall be ac-
curateIy defined by statute, to the end
| that all occasion for complaint In la
| Dor cases, which happily have been
rare in the past, shall disappear al
| together in the future. The Republi-
can plank points to simple and
| STRAIGHTFORWARD way OF achieving this