Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-18
HAS
TO BE AS TAFT
WOULD HAVE IT
so SAY ADVOCATES OF INJUNC-
TION PLANK
LATTER MODIFIED AND ADOPTED
BY COMMITTEE
May Be Compelled to
Nominate a Man Who Needs No
Platform" Says Committee
man In Explanation

By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June ia modified injunc-
tion plank was agreed to by the subcom-
mittee on resolutions at 10 o'clock tonight,
which completed the platform, and the full
committee was Immediately called into ses-
sion to consider the document as per-
fectcd.
"If the Republican convention de-
liberately refuses to adopt PLATFORM
on which Secretary Taft feels he can
make a winning race, the convention
will have to nominate man VINO neeos
no platform to win."
While this statement was not put
forward as an actual ultimatum, II was
the principal weapon which the au-
vocates of the injunction plank In the
platform used yesterday to compel the
committee on resolutions and the con-
vention itself to make such a declara-
ton.
The momentous import of the alterna-
tive implied presents more strikingiy
than could anything else the persistent
fight that was made against the IND
junction declaration.
The statement quoted was made to-
night by a member of the sub-com-
mittee which prepared the platform,
who is friendly to both President
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft. 1t was
the result of a careful analysis or the
situation made after twenty-four hours
of almost continuous service in the
committee room and undoubtedly pre-
sented a prominent phase OF the sltua-
ton. Proceeding, he said:
'It Is preposterous to ask Secretary
Taft to make the race for the presi-
dency on a platform which is not to
his liking and especially In view OF
the fact that 1t Is generally known
that he has been giving much atten-
G..ax atxa<x ~
declaration, of principles and policies.
"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 tar1n
plank, and 1t is doubtful whether he
would want to make the race under
such conditions.
Accused Of Antagonisrn
"It should also be borne in mind
that the question of injunction touches
the labor cause, an element which he
has been accused of antagonizing, and
1t is very much the opposite of fair
dealing to undertake to compel him to
go before the country on a platform
which affords no assurances to this
class Of his friendly feeling toward
them"
Beginning at 10 o'clock today, the
|Nsub- committee resumed Its work in.
the time set for the meeting of the
full committee, but when that time
came the subcommittee was compelled
to report that 1t was unprepared to
present it's report, and the full COM
mittee took an adjournment until 3
p. m.
At D. m. the subcommittee was
found to be still undecided, and an
other adjournment was taken.
While the subcommittee was in ses-
sion the greater part of the day, there
were two or three rather prolonged in
termissions, and before the day closed
1t became evident that the injunction
clause advocates were playing for time.
Could Have Voted Soon
There was no period of the day when
a vote could not have been taken in
the subcommittee and the injunction
plank inserted, but appreciating the
fact that a favorable result was not
so certain in the full committee. the
supporters of the provision sought for
and easily obtained the delay which
they seemed to consider necessary be-
fore bringing the matter before the
attention of the committee itself.
The time during the recesses, as
well as the time in which the commit
tee was engaged, was devoted to siren
uous efforts by both sides to increase
their strength in the full committee.
For the first time since the fight be-
gan the friends of the administration
apparently became awakened to the
seriousness of the situation, but
aroused, they were quite as Jealous as
their opponents in presenting the stu
alton to their fellow committeeman.
During the day they received kilograms
from Washington expressing the
<<R H<f t1a ant nd
secretary of war as to the necessity
of the injunction plank and these tele-
grams were read to all doubtful men,
bers of the committee.
In one of these kilograms the presi-
dent is reported to have urged the
wisdom of the injunction resolution
and to have said the convention should
not yield any more to the extremists
among the manufacturers than to the
extremists among the laboring men.
Plank as Adopted
The injunction plank as adopted by
the committee last night asserts that
the Republican party always has and
always will uphold the processes and
proceedings of the courts, and has alb
solute faith in their integrity and up
rightness:y nevertheless, 1t believes the
injunction practices should be so plodi-
fed as to provide that only where ir-
reparable damage to property is I'm
minent the courts may grant injunction
without notice.
| 1t is also specified that due notice
shall be given OF impending injunc-
| ton proceedings.
| The modified injunction plank is be-
| lieved to be acceptable to many more
members of the committee than the
original draft.
| No mention is made in the plat
form of statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico. ,
The Michigan delegation instructed
Representative Fordney. OIL the COM
mittee. to vote against the injunction
| plank.
Arnold DAILY Bankrupt
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