The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1908-07-01
,BUNCOED BY A
TRUST ATTORNEY
Were Trainers of the Re-
publican Platform.
SO SAYS BRYAN IN COMMONER
DissectS Injunction Plank
Hasn't Value of Gold
Plated Brick.

w. ]. Bryan, in a recenb statement
hurls criticism at the anki-injunction
plank adopted by the Republican Ma
tional Convention, and charges the
party with seeking to deceive labor.
Bryan's comment is embodied in an
editorial prepared for the current
issue of his paper. The Commoner,
and Is headed: Republicans De-
ceiving Labor" Bryan says:
The anti-injunction plank of the
Republican platform, Is finally adopt
ed, is a Transparent fraud. 1t is pos
sible that the members of the com
mittee were bunkoed by some trust
lawyer-that is the only charitable
view that can be taken of it. Those
who advocated the plank claimed to
be doing it as concession ITO the
wage-earers, and yet If one will
read the plank he will see that it is
In fact an announcements that the Re
publican party is unapterably opposed
to the laboring mans proposition. The
plank reads as follows:
1.-The Republican, party will uphold
at all times the authority and inbeg-
rity Of the Courts, State and Federal,
and will ever insist that their powers
to enforce their processes and to
protect life, liberty and property shall
be preserved invioasI.e. We believe
however. that the rules Of procedure
in Federal Courts, with respect to
the issuance of writ of injunction,
should be more accurately defined
by the statue; that no injunction or
temporary restraining order should
be- issued without notice, except
where irreparable injury would re-
suit from delay, in which case a
speedy hearing thereafter should be
granted"
It will be seen that the plank be-
gins with an unnecessary eulogy oil
the Courts. Nobody is opposed to up
holding at all times the authority
and integrity of the Courts. Nobody
is Directing to the enforcement oil
their processes or to their exercise
of their powers 20 protect life, lib
erty and property. The plank assumt'
that somebody is attacking the Courts
and that the Courts are in danger OF
losing support or of having nheir
powers weakened. There is no at
tack upon the Courts, and There is no
thought anywhere of interfering with
any legitimate function of the Court.
The Republican convention puts up
a man of straw and then proceeds to
demohsh it; it suspects an unholy as
sault upon the judiciary and its right
eous indignation at once finds express
sion in a boastful assertion of its
innocence of participation in any
such suspected assault.
This part of the plank was written
to give assurance to the people who
are opposed to the labordng mans
plea. And now let us proceed to
that part of the plank which was in
tended as a sop to the laboring man.
1t says: We believe, however, thai.
the rules of procedure in the Federal
Court with respect to the issuance
of writ of injunction should be more
accurately defined by the statute (just
what that definition shall be is not
stated; that no Injunction or tenn
porary restraining order should be
issued without notice, except where
irreparable injury would result from
delay, in which case a speedy hear
ing thereafter should be granted.
Note the words except where ir-
reparable injury could result from de-
lay" and compare this exception with
the Federal statute on the subject and
you VIII find that under the law as
1t now exists the Court is not
empowered to grant a temporary re
straining order.
Except there appears to be danger
of irreparable injury from delay" 1t
will be seen that the men who wrote
the injunction plank copied the stat
ute almost word for word and made
the exception as broad as the statute.
If the convention had been frank in
the statement of It's position 1t would
have quoted the present statute and
said, whereas, at present Court or
the law as It Is. It would have