Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-07
Move Against Interests of Dem
0cratic Nominee Will Re-
duce Attendance.
C0mM0NER ON PHONE
Confers With Mack at Chicago.
Spending Cool Days Writing
important Speeches

Fairview, Lincoln. Neb., Aug. &
Candidate Bryan and National Chair.
man Norman E. Mack at Chicago
were in conference today over the
long distance telephone While the
suDjects discussed were not disclosed
by Bryan, it is understood the con-
versation had to do, among three
things, with the refusal of the West
Crn Traffic association to make special
rates to Lincoln upon the occasion OF
The notification Aug. u.
Although the action will probably
prevent people from coming to Lin
coin to witness the event the local
committee of arrangements is going
steadily on with preparations for the
event
busy Writing Speeches.
Bryan is ayailing himself of the
cool weather by utilizing every spare
ncment of his time in preparing sew.
eIal sets of speeches which he will
make this month The one on the
tariff at Des Moines is expected to be
an exhaustive treatment of the sub
Ject and will be one of the most i'm
portant of his utterances during the
campaign.
To Learn Pnrty's Sentiments.
Fairview Lincoln, Neb., Aug. T.
AS a result of the visit TO Bryan yes
terday of Senator Taylor of Tennes-
see, the democratic national commit
tee with the concurrence of Bryan
will soon enter upon a most elabor-
ate plan fofz. dsceftainiRs the senti-
mett of the country toward their
standard bearers.
This plan contemplates the forma-
tiGn of a national democratic club
with state and country clubs as sub
g salaries, whose duty it will be to re-
port to the central organization data
favorable or unfavorable to the ma
tloLal ticket. 1t is proposed also that
these clubs shall poll the voters of the
United States and to every section
where the feeling is adverse to the
democratic candidates to send litera-
ture and speakers. Aside from this
most important announcement from
fFairview yesterday it was the decision
Of Bryan to make an extended speech
on the tariff question at Des Moines.
Iowa, Aug. 81, and to spend the three
following days in Chicago in consul
tation with Chairman Mack and other
party leaders over the plan of the
campaign.
Replies TO Van Cleave.
Last night Bryan gave out for publi-
cation his reply to a circular letter
sent to the business men of the coun-
try by James wv. Van Cleave. presi-
dent of the Manufacturers associa-
tiOn, urging them to go to the polls in
November and BURY Bryan and Bry-
anism forever"
Bryan accuses Van Cleave of hav-
ing a narrow idea of what constitutes
the business man and enters into an
elaborate defense of his policies.
Bryan says the platform draws a
distinction between associations OF
wage earners and the Improvement
of labor conditions and industrial cor
porations which act in restraint ol
trade. The difference between labor
organization and a trust is so appar
ent that no disinterested person will
deny that they should be treated sep
erately. To class the two together
and deal with them under one law is
bound to do injustice to one or the
other. Surely business men can have
10 vital concern ip including labo
organizations in antitrust laws"
Not Assault Upon Courts.
Bryan then takes up the plank pro
viding for trial by jury in cases o
indirect contempt and denies it is al
assault upon the integrity of tn
courts.
Bryan takes up the plank whicl
declares that parties to all judicia
proceedings should be treated witt
+ rigid impartiality and that an injunC
ton should not issue in any case IL
which an Injunction would not lie
no industrial dispute were involved,
and asks:
do the business men insist upo
partiality in judicial proceedings?
do they insist that the mere fac
that there is an industrial disput
should justify an Injunction"
~ He declares that the plank doe
not attempt to interfere with the i
sue of an Injunction where otner col
oltions justify it, but 1t does oppos
the issue of an injunction merely fc