The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-23
ELLIS REPLIES TO BRYAN'S CRITICISM Writer of Republican Platform
 Defends the PlankS ANTI-INJUNCTION PLANK Ohio Attorney General Says Bryan Errs in His Attack Upon the
 Anti-Injunction Question
 and So Does Party.
ANTI-INJUNCTI0N PLANK

Columbus, O., June 22.-Attorney General W. H. Ellis of Ohio, who was a member of the committee on resolutions of the night replies to criticism of the platform made by W. J. Bryan. Phe attorney gen erals statement in part follows:
 "The charge made by MT. Bryan that the republican declaration with respect to the use of the writ of injunction was de- signed to deceive the laporng man is un- worthy of a candidate for President, and the further charge that this plank merely declares the existing law and will give ID relief in those cases in which there has been an abuse of discretion or the appre- hension of it, is unworthy of any lawyer who has examined this question. The anti Injunction resolution is a frank, clear statement of the republican partys posi- tion on a question on which others have been attempting to deceive labor. The sole basis of any national complaint as to the issuance of injunctions in labor cases has been the use of the writ with out notice and the long delays in some in stances which wave intervened before the reading of a case. The present statute does not require any notice at all before the granting of temporary order, and it Is entirely within the discretion of the court to postpone to any time the judge may see fit, the hearing upon the question of an injunction
 'The republican plank simply declares that notice shall always be given unless an irreparable injury will result from de- lay, and, in that case, there shall be q speedy hearing provided. In other words, the platform declaration is designed to give assurance that what is now the gen. eral practice in the federal courts shall be made universal by statute, in order that hereafter no cause of complaint or misapprehenson shall remain. This may not satisfy the extremists on either hand but it was not expected to do that It will meet the approval of every right thinking man. whether an employer or an employe
 MT. Bryan objects further to the phrase in the injunction plank which proclaims confidence in the integrity of the courts.
 Tt is true, perhaps, that the convention which is yet to meet at Denver rather than that which has just adjourned at Chicago, should express faith in the in- tegrity of the courts; but in view of the democratic attack in 1896 and that the fact that the same forces which then con- troled that party are once again in su- preme command 1t would sem entirely appropriate for the republican partv not only to remove any possible caute of complaint in the use of the writ of in- Junction, but to make 1t clear that it would resent again as it did in 1896 any attempt to assail the judiciary.
 All that anyone wants is that powers of the federal courts with respect to the use of the injunction shall be accurately defined by statute, to the end that all occasions for complaint in labor cases which happily have been rare in the past, shall disappear altogether in the future The republican plank points to a simple and straightforward way of achieving this purpose"