Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-06-18
I Fight |
Taft Insists on Injunction
Plank and Bitter Row
Waged Over Il
His Friends Finally Win Out
and Plank Goes Into
Platform

Chicago, ILL.,, June 18--The biggest
problem before the resolutions COM
mittee Of the Republican national
convention, that of the proposed
plank in the platform, dealing with
the question Of limitation Of the use
of court injunctions in labor con-
troversies,- was disposed of at 2 a. m.
today when by a vote Of 35 to 16,
with one state, South Carolina, not
recorded, the full committee agreed
to the plank. 1t was predicted that
after the vote there would be no
fight on the matter on the floor of the
convention when the full report of
the committee is made today.
The Early Fight.
q Chicago, ILL.,, June 17.-At mid
night the full committee on resolu-
tions had agreed to accept all the
planks of the platform as recon-
mended by the subcommittee with
the exception of those relating to the
injunction, to civil rights of the me-
gro race, Panama canal, postal saw
ings banks, tariff and immigration
These were reserved because Of the
failure on the part of the members
| of the full committee to discuss at
some length each of the reserved
provisions. Other planks were ac-
cepted after brief and formal dis
cussion. 1t was understood that the
Injunction plank would receive es-
pecial consideration and many mem
bers of the subcommittee including
Messrs. Crane, Payne, Dalzell and
Clark, who had hitherto opposed. At
II o'clock indications were favor
able for an all night session.
Taft May Not Run.
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While this statement is not being
put forward as an actual ultimatum
it is the principal one which advo-
Gates of the Injunction plank in the
platform are using to compel the
committee on resolutions and the
convention itself to make such dec
laration. 1t is their last resort and
the momentuous import the al
tentative implies presents more
strikingly than could anything else
the desperate straights to which the
supporters of the Injunction declar-
alton have been driven by the per-
sistent fight that has been made
against it.
The statement quoted was made
tonight by member of the sub
committee which is preparing the
platform, who is friendly to both
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Taft. 1t was the result of careful
analysis of the situation, made after
"a hours of almost continuous SER
vice in the committee room and un-
doubtedly presented his views of the
situation. Proceeding he said:
just Like Cleveland.
'It is proposterous to ask Secre-
tary Taft to make the race for the
presidency on a platform which is
not to his liking, and especially in
view of the fact that it is generally
known that he has been giving much
attention to the framing of the par
tvs declaration OF principles and pol
icies. To do so would be to place
| him in the attitude in which Mr..
Cleveland was placed when he was
compelled in 1892 to repudiate his
party's tariff plank, and it is doubt
ful whether he would want to make
the race under such conditions. It
should also be borne in mind that
| the Injunction question touches the
labor class element which he is ac-
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