The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-03

question was decidedly vigorous and
positive. He said:
| This thing of Mr.. Gompers having
the labor vote in his pocket and of la
Dor believing the lies he tells is some
| thing that l complain Of
| Labor men ought to look at the
record and see which party has done
the things in their behalf If you
will examine the legislative record
you will find not a line in the federal
statute books that was put there by
the Democratic party. Not line
was put there by Mr.. Bryan when he
was twice a member of congress in
| Grover Cleveland's administration nor
did he attempt to have any passed.
Mr.. Gompers attacks me on the
ground that 1 am an enemy of labor.
1 deny it, I was Judge on the bench
and l decided the cases that came be-
fore me as the law and the evidence
required, and ! am not making apol-
ogy for a single decision. In them
laid down the principles defining the
rights of labor. 1 said that they had
a right to organize; that they had a
right to elect officers, that they had
right to accumulate funds by which
they might strike; that no injunction
could issue to prevent their striking
but that they might not injure the
property of their employer and that
they might not institute a secondary
relied on by organized labor to main
tain their rights in court. 1 appeal
to the clear-headed, intelligent and
independent working men of this
country to look into the facts and the
law and If they can find there that 1
am an enemy to labor, then vote
against me.
But what complain of is this wind
tanning and misrepresentation of a
man who claims to control labor in or
der to defeat a man who is in favor
of labor"
At Miball Neb., on the trip out. SEN
ator Dolliver complimented his au-
dience on This splendid section of Wy
oming," and got merry ha ha from
his hearers, who told him he was in
Nebraska. A committee representing
the state of Wyoming boarded the train
at Pine Bluff, consisting of Governor
Brooks, Senators Warren and C. w.
Burke, nominee for governor. When
Cheyenne was reached the candidate
was taken in an automobile direct to
from the pit to the roof. In a box one
of his auditors was Senator Gore, of
Oklahoma, who spoke last night. In
his speech Mr.. Taft made most en-
phatic denial of Mr.. Bryans assertion
that Republican votes helped to pass
through the senate ten years ago the
bill requiring jury trial between the
judgment Of court and the indorse-
ment of its final decree. Speaking of
the labor plank in the Democratic plat
form in his argument against interven-
ing jury trials, Mr.. Taft paid his re-
spects to Governor Haskell. He said:
THE man who penned that very
resolution in the platform at Denver,
Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, has
been ten or twelve times a defendant
in prosecutions of that sort with refer
ence to violations of the orders of court,
and he had to pay $1,000 in the state of
New York in the federal court to purge
himself of that very con. npt, and if
you are going to introduce a jury trial
every time, you will weaken the power
of the courts so that they will be a
laughing stock. I appeal to intelligent
working men to know whether they de-
sire that the courts upon which our
whole civilization rests, shall be weak
ened merely in order that a trial by
jury shall be introduced in a certain
class of cases when we have gotten
along thus far for three hundred years
without such Intervention between a
lawful order of the courts and it's en-
forcements."