Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-06-23
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Replies to Bfyanl's Criticism
Of the Republican Ma
tiOndl Platform
Says Six Points Raised Are
Not Issues in the
Campaign

Columbus, O., June 22.-Attorney
General Wade Ellis of Ohio, was a
member Of the committee on resolu-
lions Of the Republican national
convention and the chief author OF
the platform adopted, in a statement
issued tonight replies to criticisms
Of the platform made by William J
Bryan and denies emphatically that
the draft of the platform as pub
lished prior to the convention, was
4 changed with the intention to dis
appoint the president or Secretary
Taft" The attorney generals state,
ment in part follows:
OF the seven omissions he (Mr.
Bryan referred to, six are in no
sense issues before the people at this
time, nor has there been any attempt
to make them such by the admins
tration, nor. by any other individual
element in the party. The seventh
concerns injunctions. Upon this sub.
ject Mr.. Bryan's criticism exhibits
his usual recklessness of statement
and readiness to assume that his own
lack Of information NUT be the pre-
Yailing condition.
The charge that the Republican
4 declaration with respect to the use
Of the writ Of Injunction was design
ed to deceive the laboring men"
is unworthy of a candidate for pres
ident, and the further charge that
this plank merely declares existing
law and will give no relief in those
cases in which there has been abue
or discretion or apprehension Of it,
is unworthy of any lawyer who has
examined this question. The anti
injunction resolution is a frank, clear
statement Of the Republican party's
position on question which others
4 have been attempting to deceive la
Dor.
The sole basis of any rational
complaint as to the issuance of In
functions in labor cases has been
the use Of the writ without notice
and the long dely in some instances
which have interviewed before hear
ing Of the case. The present statute
does not require any notice at all
before the granting of a temporary
( order, and 1t is entirely within the
discretion Of the court to postpone
to any time the judge may see fit,
the hearing upon a question Of the
Injunction. The Republican plank
simply declares that notice shall al
ways be given unless irreparable
4 injury would result from delay, and
in that case, there shall be speedy
hearing provided. In other words
the platform declaration is designed
y to give assurance that what is now
the general practice in federal courts
shall be made universal by statute
IN order that hereafter no cause OF
B complaint or Misrepresentation shall
remain. This may not satisfy ex
tremests on either hand, but it was
not expected to do that. 1t will meet
the approval Of every right thinking
man, whether employer or employee
No party can lose by brayely taking
q a stand for what is right, whoever
complains, just as none can profil
by taking stand for what is wrong
whoever applauds.
Mr.. Bryan objects further to the
phase OF the Injunction plank which
proclaims confidence in the integrity
OF the courts. It is true, perhaps
that the convention which Is yet t.
meet at Denver, raher than thai
which has just adjourned at Chi
cago, should express faith in the in
tegrity Of he courts, but in view d
the Democratic attack in 1896. ant
the fact that the same forces which
then controlled the party are ono,
again in supreme command, it would
seem entirely appropriate for TIL,
Republican party not only to remov,
any possible cause OF complaint ii
the use Of the writ of injunction
but to make 1t clear that it coult
resent again, ais it did in 1895. an,
attempt to assail the judiciary.