, 1908-06-24
BRYAN IS
RECKLESS
STATEMENTS CONCERNING RE
PUBLICAN PLATFORM NOT
THOSE OF MAN WHO HAS
STUDIED MATTER.
Attorney General Ellis Of Ohio, Men,
Der Of Committee on Resolutions
of National Convention, Replies to
the Criticisms Made by Perpetual
candidate-LincoIn Mans Own
Lack Of information Noted.


Lack Of information Noted.
Columbus, O., June 24-Attorney
General Wade H. Ellis of Ohio. VINO
vas a member of the committee on
convention, and chief author of the
platform adopted, in a statement issu-
ed last night replies to criticisms OF
the platform made by William j.
Bryan and denies emphatically that
the draft of the platform as published
before h convention was changed
with the intention to displease or dis,
appoint the president or Secretary
Taft" The attorney generals state
ment in part follows:
ReckIessness of Statement.
"Of the seven omission 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 influential element in
the party. The seventh in
functions. Upon this subject Mr..
Bryan's criticism exhibits his usual
recklessness OF statement and reaii-
less to assume that his own lack OF
information might be the prevailing
condition.
Unworthy Of Candidate.
The charge that the republican de-
claration with respect to the use of
the writ of injunction was designed
to deceive the laboring men, is un-
worthy of a candidate for president,
and the further charge that this plank
merely declares the existing law and
will give no relief in cases in which
there has been an abuse of the injunc-
ton or the apprehension of 1t, is un-
worthy of any lawyer who has exam
ined this question. The antiinjunc-
ton resolution is a frank, clear state
ment Of the republican party's posi-
ton on a question on which others
have been attempting to deceive labor.
In Courts Discretion.
THE sole basis Of any national COM
plant u to the issuance of injunc-
lions in labor cases has been the use
of the writ without notice and the long
delays in some instances which have
interviewed before a hearing Of the
ase The present statute does not re-
quire any notice at all before the
granting of a 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.
Plank Requires Notice.
THE republican plank simply de
ciares that notice shall always be given
unless an irreparable injury will re-
suit from delay and in that case there
shall be a speedy hearing provided.
In other words, the platform declara-
ton is designed to give assurance 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.
Meets Approval of Sensible Men.
This may not satisfy the extremists
on either hand, but it was not expected
to do that. 1t will meet the approval
OF every right thinking man, whether
an employer or an employee. No party
can lose by bravely taking a stand for
what is right, whoever complains. just
as none can profit by taking a stand
for what is wrong. whoever applauds.
Not Friendly to Courts.
MI. Bryan objects further to the
phrase in the injunction plank which
proclaims confidence In the integrity
of the courts. 1t Ia true, perhaps, that
the convention which Is yet to meet a.
Denver, rather than that which has
just adjourned at Chicago, should tx
press faith in the integrity of the
courts; but in view of the democratic
attack in 1896 and the fact that the
anne forces which then controlled that
party are once again in supreme com
mand, it would see entirely appropri
ate for the republican party not only
to remove any possible cause of COM
plaint in the use of the writ of injunc-
ton, but to make it clear that it would
resent again, as II dld In 1896, any at
tempt to assault the judiciary.
The straightforward Way.
"All that any one wants is that pow
ers of the federal courts with respect
to the use of %injunctions shall be &C.
~curately defined by statute, to the end
that all occasion for complaints in
labor cases, which happily have been
rare In the past, shall disappear alto
gether in the future. The republican
plank points to a simple and straight,
forward way of achieving this pur
pose.'
FORMER GRAND CHANCELLOR
FATHER or GIRL BABY.
Born. at st. Johns hospital to the
wife of 8. Dickinson, a girl, says he