The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-08-07
BRYAN REPLIES
TO VAN ClEVE
o c c / ARES MANUFACTURERS
PRESIDENT HAS NARROW
IDEA or BUSINESS MAN.
AN ELABORATE DEFENSE
or Policies set Forth by Nebraskan
Platform Does Not Attempt
to interfere With issue OF
lnjunetions.

Fairyiew. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. g.
As result OF visit to Bryan today
of Senator Taylor of Tennessee. the
Democratic national committee with
the concurrence of Bryan will soon
enter upon the most elaborate plan
for ascertaining the sentiment OF tina
country toward their standard bear
ers.
This plan eontemplates the forma
tion of a national Democratic club
with state and county clubs as snbsi-
daries, whose duty ID will be to,report
to the central organization data "a
vorable or unfavorable TO the nation.
al ticket. II is proposed also that
9ese clubs shall poll the voters of the
United States and every section
where the feeling Is adverse to the
Democratic candidates to send liter.
atare and speakers.
Aside from this the most import
ant announcement from Fairviewtl ,
day was the decision OF Bryan to
make an extended speech on the tar
IN opposition at Des Moines, Iowa,
August 81. mad to spend the follow.
ing three days Ia Chicago In consul
tation with Chairman Mack and Other
party leaders over the plan al cam
paign,
Tonight Bryan gave out for publIca
ton his reply 10 the circular letter
lscnt. to the hnsinsss men or the
country BY James w. Van Cleaye,
president of the Manufacturers Asso.
citation. urging them to so ito the
polls In November and Bury Bryan
and Bryanism Forever"
Bryan accuses Van Cleave OF hav.
ing narrow idea of what constitutes
| THE business man and enters init,
an elaborate defense OF his policies.
Bryan says The platform draws
distinction between associations of
wage earners organized for the pro.
lection of wages and Improvement of
labor conditions and Industrial coz.
porations which act In restraint OF
trade. The difference between the la
Dor organization and the trust Is so
apparent that no disinterested person
will deny that the should be treated
separately. To class the two togetl.
er and deal with them under oneIaw
is bound to do injustice to one or the
other. Surely the business men can
have no vital concern In including the
labor organizations in the antitrust
laws"
Bryan then takes up the plank pro
v'ding for trial by jury In cases of in
direct contempt and denies that IL Ia
an assault upon the integrity of the
courts. Bryan takes up the plank
which declares that parties TO all in.
dicial proceedings should be treated
with rigid impartiality and that in.
junction should not issue in any case
In which an injunction would NOT lie
Il no industrial dispute we're IN.
volved and asks DO the business
men insist upon impartislty in judi
eial proceedings? Do they insist that
The mere fact that there Is an indus.
trial dispute should justify an in.
junction?
He declares that the plank does
not attempt to interfere with the L.
sue Of iniunctions where other condi-
tions justify it. but IL does oppose the
issue of injunctions merely for the
purpose Of bringing the court into a
discussion Of an industrial dispute
Bryan denies that this plank rouses
n class spirit and constitutes de
mand for class favors" and insists
that 1T is a declaration that the
writ of Injunction should not be used
for the purpose of creating a class or
favoring class"