The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-17
Platform Committee Likely
to Favor Limiting
Power of Courts.
CONTEST WILL co
TO CONVENTION
President Would Please Labor, and
Financiers Help-CannOn and
Littleheld Called.

CHICAGO, June 1.-THE great fight
of the convention is on VIII the pow
er of the Administra ton at Washing
ton. which has had it's way IN me Sc
lection of the Presidential candidate
of the Republican party, and VIII also
doubtless name the Vice Presidential
nominee, II 1t desires 10 do so. sue
coed IN forcing into the platform an
anti-iniuuction plank? YIN It be
Roosevelt and Taft platform or one
dictated by the Allies"
on this proposition the Adminlstra-
ton forces and the enemies Of the HoOSe-
welt policies are now engaged In a tre-
Tnendous battle. Every nerve is being
strained, and every man whose infiu-
ence is worth anything on either side
Is being impressed 10 take part in the
struggle.
after being in session from 3 o'clock
last night until after midnight the thir-
teen platform makers constituting the
subcommittee of the resolutions com
mittee met again at 10 O'Clock 10 re
new their contentious.
May Favor Anti-InjunCtiOn Plank.
The Indications are that they win
favor the insertion of the anti-injUnc-
ton plank. Reports from the com
mittee room line them up on the prop
osition like this:
Favoriug the plank: A J. Hopkins
Illinois, Chester J. Long. Kansas; Spen-
Ger B. Adams. North Carolina. Wade
j. Ellis, Ohio; Coe l. Crawford South
Dakota; William Warner, Missouri. -
Lawrence Groner, Virginia. Frank b.
Kellogg, Minnesota.
Opposing the plank: W. Murray
frame, Massachusetts; Serene L. Payne.
New York, John Dalzeu. Penusyl-
Nania, Clarence d Clark. Wyoming.
X. A. Baldnser, Washington
The minority viii make a minority re-
port TO the fun committee. which will
meet at 4 o'clock this afternoon. and
the night will be waged there with re-
newed intensity. Senator Crane claims
there is a majority there against this
plank, putting the probable vote at 30
10 =. The Taft leaders are equally as
positive that they viii be in command
ard that the platform as reported by
the whole committee will contain an
dnU-inJuuCtiOI plank.
Will Come Before Convention.
Feeling upon tie subject is 50 intense.
however. that H0 matter which side is
IL the minority it is practically certain
that the contest Will be fought out on
the floor Of the convention 4 minority
report will be presented. and then viii
viii come the tug of war; which prom
'ses g. develop into one Of the most stir
ring scenes Witnessed in any recent ma
Jionai convention.
Speaker Cannon, who has been in the
forefront of the opposition. is being
urged 10 take a proxy and make a
speech against the plank. Representa-
tive Littlefield of Maine has been
wired TO come here and make a similar
attack. Most OF the old-time leaders
Of the Senate and House Of Representa-
tives viii be lined up with them on that
side OF the question.
Their theme viii be that any IimIta-
JlOn or the power or the courts would
be a surrender 10 sOcialistic Labor SEN
timent which would ALLEVIATE the con
servaUVe business element, and that TO
introduce such subject IN "a party
platform would be 10 attack the Fed
eTal judiciary by Endorsement OF the
charge that they do not dispense fair
and even justice.
Working for Plank.
Senators Hopkins and Long. Wade FL
lis. Of Ohio, and Trust Buster KeI-
logg, Of Minnesota, will lead the fight
IN favor OF the plank. The President
has telegraphed Kellogg TO night until
the last ditch. Secretary Taft, through
Frank II. Hitchcock has called upon
his friends 20 stand by him ana see
sAat the plank is made part of the
platform. saying that he believes that
il will protect labor from abuses of the
courts, and pointing out that IN public
speeches in the last few years he has
favored legislation 10 prevent the is
suance Of injunCtiOns without notice to
the party 10 be enjoined.
r. II. Gary, chairman of the board Of
directors of the United States Steel
Corporation, and George w Perkins.
confidential representative of J. PieTpOnt
Morgan and other prominent nn3nCieTs,
have arrived here and are lending their
support 10 the auti-iujunCtiOn plank
and IN fact are urging the adoption of
the entire draft OF the platform as IL
came from Washington.
Capital Fights for Labor.
Paul Morton. James j. Hill, and
members of the national committee
friendly 10 f. H. Hartman. are also
working TO the same end. provided the
anti-lnjunction plank IS not made 'too
raw" The arrival of these Captains
of Industry" 10 work TO put into the
platform the demands Of labor is re-
garded as a remarkable spectacle.
Ihere is a ruInOr mat their attitude
is dictated by a desire that in return
for their Endorsement of the anti-in-
junction plank all hands should join in
supporting the plank committing the
party TO legislation legalizing the pool
Ing Of railroad rates.
AT last nights session of the platform
makers practical agreement was reach
ed on The planks on the tariff the regu-
latiOn OF trusts. the railroads. wage
earners, the currency question, ana the
negroes. These planks were accepted
practically as submitted In the tenta-
tive draft of Wade Ellis. which had the
approval Of the President and Secre-
tgFy. and have already been published.
Those relating to the Philippines, Cuba.
and pensions were also discussed.
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