Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-08-13
BRYANTOVANCLEAVE
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ON LET.
Ter sent TO BUSINESSMEN.
Rank Appeal of Van Ueave TO prcju-
dice IS AnaIyzed by the Demo-
cratic Standard Bearer. Insists on
Right of Trial by Jury in Contempt
Cases.

FAIRNlEW, LINCOLN, Neb., Aug.
l1.-William Bryan has given out
for publication his reply to a circu-
lar letter recently sent to the busi-
ness men of the country by James W.
Van Cleave, president of the Manu-
facturers Association, urging them
to go to the polls in November and
bury Bryan and Organism forever"
Bryan declares that the pamphlet
OF Van Cleave raises two questions:
First, is there anything in the la
Dor plank of the Democratic platform
to which business men can justly
take exception, and second. is the
labor question so important to busi-
ness men as to justify them in ig-
noring all other issues?"
Bryan declares that the proposition
in the Democratic platform for the
creation OF labor department with
Il cabinet officer at it's head cannot
possibly offend business men. He
Chen says:
THE platform draws distinction
between association of wage-earners
and the improvement of labor condi-
tions and industrial corporations
which act in restraint of trade. The
difference between labor organiza-
ton and trust is SO apparent that
disinterested person will deny that
they should be treated separately.
ITO class the two kinds of organi-
cations together and deal with them
under one law is bound to do injus-
! tice to one or the other. Surely the
business men can have no vital con-
Germ in including the labor organiza-
tion under the antitrust laws"
Bryan then takes up the plank
providing for trial by jury in cases
of indirect contempt He insists that
| this cannot raise a question of vital
concern to business men, because ev-
| cry man has right to jury trial.
He then says:
An attempt will be made to raise
a false issue in regard to the courts
and to make it appear that the de-
mand for trial by jury is an assault
Those who make this argument might
as well insist on the abolition of the
jury in all cases, for the jury system
itself is just as much reflection on
the bench as in this demand for trial
by jury in these particular cases.
But there is another labor plank
that Van Cleave probably has indi-
Gated. This is the plank that declares
that parties to all judiciary proceed
ings should be treated with rigid i'm
partiality. Do the business men in
sist upon partiality in judicial pro-
ceedngs? Do they insist that the
mere fact that there is an industrial
dispute should justify an injunction?
That plank does not attempt to in
terfere with the issue of an injunc-
tiOn where other conditions Justify
it, but it does oppose the issue of an
bringing the court into the discus
sion of an industrial dispute.
Van Cleave asserts that this plank
arouses a class spirit and demands
for class favors.
But this is not true. II is dec
laration that the writ of injunction
should not be issued for the purpose
of creating a class or favoring IL
class. The laboring men resent an
attempt to discriminate against them
in favor of any other class
Bryan in conclusion declares that
Van Cleave does the business man
an injustice in assuming that his
waking hours are filled with fears of
the wage-earner and that his nights
rest is broken by imaginary disputes
with those who toll.
LITTLE GIRL KILLED.