Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-07
PLATFORM NOW
ABOUT COMPLETE
INJUNCTION PLANK FULL OF
SLIVERS
BRYAN SUGGESTS WAY OUT OF
DIFFICULTY
Tariff Is Discussed, but Exact Lam
quaqe of recommendation to Be
Adopted Is Not Fully
Decided
BY Associated Press.


| BY Associated Pres.
DENVER, July 6.-Evidences are
multiplying that practically the only
difficult plank to prepare for the Dem
ocratic platform will be that relating
to the use of injunctions in industrial
disputes.
Mr.. Bryan has let 1t be known
through a number of reliable sources
that his position on this plank is not
rigid.
Perhaps the most important confer
/ ence with reference to the injunction
plank was that held at Fairview, Mr.
Bryan's home, during the dinner given
/ by the Nebraskan to number OF
prominent Democrats on July 4.
At this dinner Mr.. Bryan stated clear
| ly that he realized that there might
arise situations where the issuance of
an Injunction without notice to those
enjoined, would be the only remedy
against loss of life or irreparable dam
age to property.
To meet such cases Mr.. Bryan fur
Their indicated that if the resolutions
committee could draw plank which
could provide for such emergencies with
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lions should be self dissolving after a
period of three or five days, the plank
would meet his approval.
Work on the platform continued to-
day through the medium of an informal
subcommittee, consisting of Governor
Haskell who is to be chairman of the
resolutions committee, and number of
prominent members of the party who
will have places on that committee.
The product of this work will be laid
before a large subcommittee of the
resolutions committee when the latter
is officially appointed by the conven-
ton.
Will Keep Bryan Posted
The plan contemplates telephoning
each plank to Mr.. Bryan at Lincoln as
soon as it is agreed upon by the sub
committee. In this manner it Will be
possible for the subcommittee to pre-
sent to the full committee perfected
platform which already has received the
stamp of approval Of the prospective
candidate. So far there has developed
no >intimation of hostility to Mr..
Bryan's wishes with reference to the
platform.
One of these wishes is understood to
be that the platform be the product of
the resolutions committee, guided, of
course, in its drafting by frequent con-
ferences with Fairview.
Planks of many varieties were SUBJ
mitted to Governor Haskell and by him
to his comforting colleagues today. One
of these was an irrigation plank, sub
mitted by Judge King of Utah, which
pledges the party to a conservation of
the irrigable lands of the west for per-
sons desiring to make permanent
homes as against allowing this terri
tory to become the property of corpo
rations.
Another plank along the same lines
opposes the leasing system of grazing
lands as at present applied by the for
estry service of the government.
Discuss Tariff Plank
The tariff plank came in for con-
siderable discussion today with the re-
suit that this language was put ten
tatively as embodying the position the
party should take:
THE Democratic party believes in
tariff for revenue only, but inasmuch
as the expenses of the government are
great, and we are depending largely
upon the imposts for the revenues for
running the government. which means
the imposition of a tariff, we favor
the laying of the tariff duties in such
a manner that there shall be no dis
elimination in behalf of any section of
the country or any industry"
No one would be quoted as saying
that this plank would be adopted in
the form given.
Judge Powers of Utah has transmit
ted to the tentative resolution COM
mittee a plank he has received and
approves from Samuel Newhouse,
prominently known in railroad and
mining financial circles. Mr.. New
house wires Judge Powers that the
plank was written after careful can
vass of the financial classes in New
York. 1t recites the necessity of main
tanning and even increasing in some
instances existing railroad rates and
tariffs, recognizing the rightfulness
of government regulation. The neees-
sity for maintaining rates Is stated to
be to pay the present high wage scale
to railroad employees.
During the afternoon Mayor F. w.
Brown of Lincoln, who is to be the
Nebraska representative on the reso-
lutions committee, arrived with Mr..
Bryans suggestions concerning a num-
Der of planks of the platform in his
pocket. Mr.. Brown said 1t had not
been Mr.. Bryan's intention to prepare
complete platform, but that it was
his wish that the committee itself
should perform this duty.
He declined to say what subjects
were covered by the Bryan draft, but
it is understood through other cham
nels that Mr.. Bryan's memorandum
deals especially with the subject of
the regulation of the issuance of writs
of injunction by the federal courts in
labor disputes; the tariff, the trusts,
the railroads; the election of senators,
which he would have by direct vote of
the people; the guarantee of bank de-
posits by the government and the pub
licity of campaign contributions.
The injunction plank as drafted
would prohibit the issuance of prohib-
tive writs without notice except in
cases in which it is evident irreparable,
damage might be done to property. In
that event the plank would permit the
issuance of an injunction limited to
ten days time and a hearing would
be re Luired on the second presentation
of the case,
MIR. Bryan has given his friends to
understand that while he tenders his
suggestions, he does not desire that
the plank committee should feel tied
to his language. He is willing that
phra seology should be altered If 1t can
be improved upon without changing
the sense.
Soon after arriving n the city Mayor
Brown went into conference with Gov
ernor Haskell, who will be chairman
of the committee on resolutions, and
laid before him Mr.. Bryan's views.
Both of them declined to discuss the