Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-24
ELLIS REPLIES TO BRYAN
Nebraskan's Structures on injunction
Plank Answered.
NO ATTEMPT AT DECEPTION
It Says Their Must BE Notice Except
in Rare Instances, and Prompt
Hearings After Temporary
Order is Granted.

COLUMBUS. o., June 2s.-Attorney Gem
eraI Wade Ellis OF Ohio. who was a member
Of the committee on resolutions Of the re-
publican national convention and chief
author OF the platform adopted. in a state
ment issued tonigh replies to criticisms OF
the platform made by w. J. Bryan and de-
MES emphatically that the draft OF the
platform as published prior to the conven-
ton was changed with the intention to
displease or disappoint the president or
Secretary Taft
The attorney generals statement in part
follows:
"Of the seven he CMr. Bryan refers to,
six are in no sense issues before the people
at this time, nor has there been any at
tempt to make them such by the admins
tration nor by any other influential element
in the party. The seventh. concerns in
functions. Upon this subject Mr.. Bryan's
criticisms exhibits his usual recklessness of
statement and readiness to assume that his
own lack OF Information might be the pre-
vailing condition. The charge that the re-
publican declaration with respect to the
use of the writ OF injunction was designed
to deceive the laboring mem Is unworthy
of a candidate for president, and the fur
ther charge that this plank merely declares
for the existing law and wiz give no relief
In their cases in which there has been an
abuse Of discretion or the apprehension Of
It, is unworthy Of any lawyer who has ex-
amined this question. The anti-injunctlon
resolution is a frank. clear statement of the
republican party's position on a question
on which others ave been attempting to
deceive labor.
Basis of Complaints.
'The sole basis OF any rational complaint
aR 70 the Issuance Of fniunNfiOna IN labor
cases has been the use of the writ with
out notice and the long delays in some in
stances which have interviewed before q
hearing of the case. The present statute
does not require any notice at all before
the granting of a temporary order and IL
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. The republican platform plank
simply declares that notice shall always
be given unless an irreparable injury will
result from delay, and in that case there
shall be a speedy hearing provided. In
other words, the platform declaration Is de-
signed to give assurance that what is now
the general practice in the federal courts
shall be made universal by statutes in order
that hereafter no cause of complaint or
Misrepresentation shall remain. This may
not satisfy the extremists on either hand
but It was not expected to do that. It will
meet the approval of every right thinking
man, whether an employer or an employee.
Confidence I'm Courts.
mo party can lose by bravely tak,ns
a stand for whatever is right, whoever
complains, just as none can profit by TAX
ing a stand for what is wrong, whoever
applauds. Mr.. Bryan objects further to
the phrase in the injunction plank which
proclaims confidence in the integrity Of the
courts. 1t is true perhaps that the con-
vention 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 influenced
that party are once again in supreme
command 1t would seem entirely appro-
pirate for the republican party not only
to remove any possible cause of complaint
In the use of the writ OF injunction, but to
make It clear that it would resent again
as 1t did in 1895 any attempt to assail the
judiciary.
"All that any one wants is that powers
OF the federal courts with respect to the
use of the injunction shall be accurately
defined by statute, to the end that all
occasion for complaint in labor cases which
happily are rare in the past, shall disap-
pear altogether in the future. The repub-
lican plank points to a simple and straight
forward way of achieving this purpose. 3"