Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-07-02
BRYAN'S VIEWS.
Nebraskan Censures Action OF
Republican Convention.
INJUNCTION PLANK.

Calls IL Transparent Fraud" ani
Analyses il in Detail-Laborins
Man, he Says, Has Nothing Il
Hope From the Party Which Has
Chosen Taft and Sherman.
A dispatch fro Lincoln, Neb, says:
Following up his expression oi
Saturday in criticism of the Republi.
can national platform In general
William Jennings Bryan gave out
Sunday statement in which he as
sails in particular the anti-injunction
plank of the Chicago declaration,
characterizing is as transparent
fraud The statement follows:
THE anti-injunction plank of the
Republican platform as finally adopt
ed is a transparent fraud. 1t is pos
sible that the members of the COM
mittee were buncoed by some trust
lawyer-that is the only charitable
view that can be taken of 1t. Those
who advocated the plank claimed
to be doing 1t as a concession to the
wage earners, and yet IL one will
read the plank he will see that 1t is,
in fact an announcement that the
Republican party Is unalterably OPP
posed to the laboring mans position.
The plank reads as follows:
1.-The Republican party will up
hold at all times the authority and
integrity of the courts, State and fed
l.at tlAs
power to enforce their processes and
to protect Ii i'e, liberty and property
shall be preserved inviolate. We be-
lieve, however, that the rules of pro-
cedure in federal courts with re
spect to the issuance of writ of
injunction should be more accurately
defined by the statute; that no in
junction or temporary restraining
order should be issued without no
tice, except where irreparable in
jury would result from delay, in
which case Il speedy hearing there
after should be granted.
at will be seen the plank begins
with an unr necessary eulogy of the
courts. Nobody is opposed to up
holding at all times the authority
and integrity of the courts. Nobody
is objection to the enforcement of
their processes or of their exercise
OF their powers to protect life. liber-
ty and property. The plank assumes
that somebody is attacking the courts
and that the courts are in danger of
losing support or of having their pow
ers weakened. There is no attack
upon the courts and there is no
thought anywhere of interfering
with any Legitimate function of the
court. The Republican convention
puts up -nan of straw and then
proceeds to demoish It, This part
OF the plank was written to give as
surance to the people who are op-
posed to tho laboriug mans plea.
And now let us proceed to that part
of the plank which was intended as
n sop to the laboring man. 1t says:
We belive, hat the rules of proce-
dure in the federal court with re-
spect to the issuance Of a writ of
injunction should be more accurately
defined hy the statute. (Just what
that definition shall be is not stat
ed.
Statute Copied.
THAT no injunction or tempor-
ary restraining order should be
issued without notice except where
irreparable injury should result
from delay. in which case a speedy
hearing thereafter should be grant
ed Note the words except where
irreparable Injury would result from
delay and compare this exception
with the federal statute on the sub
ject and You will find that court Is
not empowered to grant a tempo
rary restraining order except there
appears to he danger of irreparable
injury from delay. 1t will 3e seen
that the man who wrote the in
junction plank copied the statute al
most 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 il would
have quoted the present statute and
said that it was in favor of enforc-
ing the law just as il is. 1t would
have said, Whereas at present a
court or Judge may grant temper
airy restraining order If there APP
pears to be danger of irreparable in
jury from delay therefore. be II
resolved that we are opposed to
changing IT,.
"The men who are responsible for
the language of the injunction planH
may have fooled the convention but
they can not fool the laboring men
or the voters in general. The in
junction plank has not even the
value of a gold plate brick for the
plating in brass as well as the inter
ior of the brick.
THE plank as prepared in advan
ce of the convention by Mr.. Taft''
friends and given out Tuesday reat
AS follows: We declare for suci
amendments TO the statutes relative
to procedure in the federal court
with respect to the use of the wri
of injunction as will, on the on
hand prevent the summary issue o
such orders without proper con
sideration and on the other will pre-
serve undiminuished the power o
The courts to enforce their proces