New-York tribune., 1908-07-09
MAKING THE PLATFORM
RADICALS IN CONTROL.
Anti-Iniunction and Tariff for
ReUenue PIanks adopted.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

BY Telegraph to The Ir1bune.I
Denver, July S.-Rattled by Mitchell. Gompers
and Duncan, the labor leaders, who demand
more than the conservative members of the COM
mittee inclined to give them, the platform
makers put in a hard days work, with al agree
ment still good ways off at 10 o'clock tonight
when the subcommittee supposed to be
ready to report final draft to the full commit
tee. TOO much Gompers'' is what the con-
servative members Of the subcommittee say
when asked privately about their progress' but
the more radical members of the subcommittee
under the domination of Bryan and the Lead OF
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma, are determined
il possible TO make platform that will be ac-
ceptable TO the labor leaders.
Three four times in the day message was
sent for Mr.. Gompers. He was wanted at noon,
at O'Clock and again at O'Clock The sub
committee is anxious about getting Gompers to
subscribe TO platform which will not drive
away old line Democrats. OF the sub-com-
mittee of eighteen only four are conservative in
their views. The conservatives are c. s.
Thomas, of Colorado, who has witnessed at
close range the labor troubles that prostrated
the mining industry in this state: Samuel Alt
schuer, of Illinois, a hard headed lawyer; Judge
Parker. of New York and R. D. Inmsn, Of Ore
gon. The other fourteen men are intense ad-
mirers of Bryan, and will vote for anything
Bryan dictates.
NEBRASKA PLATFORM FOR GUIDE.
With the Nebraska platform for guide, the
radicals in the subcommittee are favoraply dis
posed toward Gompers but they do not want
to go too far Chairman Haskell yesterday sub
mitted to his confreres various suggestions re-
ceived by wire from Mr.. Bryan at Lincoln Mr..
Bryan is furnishing the ideas for the platform,
but he magnanimously allows the sub-commit-
tee to change the phraseology in minor partic-
ulars so long the sense is not changed. Mr..
Bryan's views the latest edition, on the anti
injunction plank are about the same as his
views displayed earlier in the Nebraska plat
form, already printed in The Tribune. They
are substantially carried out in the New York
platform, submitted by Judge Parker to the
subcommittee after having been prepared by
the Nixon committee of ten. Mr.. Bryan has
informed Governor Haskell that the plank
should begin with the statement that the party
resents any attempted reflection on the judiciary
Of the country: that not only the courts
themselves created by law, but their jurisdiction
and authority defined by law, as well as their
rules Of procedure. The position of the party
on this subject in the platforms Of 1895. 1900
and 1904 is to be indorsed. the further provision
being made that in contempt cases the trial is
to be before any judge other than the one issu
ing the citation, and the plank is to declare for
the re-epactrnent of the federal law requiring
notice to be given before such preliminary in
functions shall issue, precisely as IT is alleged
to have existed before 1878. Mr.. Bryan has Of
fered still further suggestion to the effect
that it might be we'll to provide that no injunc
tion or restraining order shall remain in force
for a period longer than three days, and that
the hearing such order shall be before two
judges The perplexity of the sub committee
yesterday was over the fact that Mr.. Gompers
demands that the law shall be SO amended
practically to exempt from restraint working
men, agriculturists and horticulturists. He in
sists that the Penal Code and police regulations
furnish adequate protection to society and that
trade unionist should not be enjoined for an
intention to any one, but rather that he
should be absolutely unrestrained until he vio
Iates the law This IS. where the "Commoner''
and Mr.. Gompers clash. Bryan wanting a sugar
coated injunction law and Gompers not want
ing any at all. Mr.. Bryan also believes