Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10
FROM THE
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The sari ~ ilssgcrioa p3aak 81 the Sc
publican piaffBzus- a. hHsliy sas.;ed
d trsasvsreus ftsaa n is gs,~sie8.
thai the members OF the COMMITTEE.
~sre b.soe-sd b. sosse trs=; la<yer-
tsss is the oaly cnaritab.s Se~ thai
can 10 taken oi b. Those .ho sdSO-
Gated the plsHk claimed 20 b. aoins
n - a concession 10 the ~sse earn
err and y.f " one ~iH read the PLANK
he vili see ths; n is IN ssct an an
HOEHcemsui that n. keyabiicsn party
Be- uasliersbls opposed 10 the laboHiHe
maH position. The plauk reads az
follows Th. Republican party viii
gphuld Al all times the authority and
iutesrity OF the courts. state and fed
eraL and VIII ever insist thai their
po-srs 90 enforce their processes and
to sro;ect life. liberty and property
shall be preserved in violate Ne be
hsVe however. thai the rules of pro
cedsre in federal court. with respect
10 IRE issuance Of writ Of Injunction
should be more accurately defined by
the statute, thai no IN junction or TEN
porary restraining order should b. is
sued without notice except where ir
reyarsbie injury would result from de
isy. In which case a speedy hearing
thereafter should be- granted
It will be seen that the plank begins
with an unnecessary eulogy of the
courts Nobody is opposed to uphold
ing at all times the authority and in
tesritr of the courts. Nobody is oh
leSting to the enforcement Of their
processes or 10 their exercise OF their
powers to protect life. liberty and
property The plank assumes that
sonIehody IL attacking the courts and
that the courts are IN danger Of losing
support or Of having their powers
weakened There is no attack upon
the courts and there is no thought any
where of interfering with any legiti
mate function Of the court. The Re
publican convention puts up a man OF
straw and then proceeds to demolish
II, II suspects an unholy assault upon
the judiciary and its righteous indigns-
tion at once finds expression in a
boastful assertion of its innocence of
participation in any such suspected
assault This part of the plank was
written to give assurance to the peo-
pie sho are opposed to the laboring
mans plea. Ana now let us proceed
to that part of the plank which was
iKended as a sop to the laboring man.
II says: We believe, however. that
the rules of procedure in the federal
court with respect to the issuance Of a
writ of injunction ahould he more &C.
curately dehned by the statute" Just
what that definition shall be is not
stated That no injunction or tenn
porsry restraining order should be
issued without notice. EXCEPT
WHERE IRREPARABLE INJURY
WOULD RESULT FROM DELAY. in
which case speedy hearing there
after should be granted" Note the
words in capitals CEXCEPT WHERE
IRREPARABLE INJURY WOULD
RESULT FROM DELAY and com
pare this exception with the federal
statute on the subject and you will
find that under the law AS 1T NOW
EXISTS the court is not empowered
to grant temporary restraining or
der EXCEPT THERE APPEARS TO
BE DANGER OF IRREPARABLE IN
JURY FROM DELAY" 1t will be
seen that the man who wrote the in
junction plank copied the statute al
most word for word and made the eX-
ception as broad as the statute. If
the convention had been frank in the
statement Of its position il would have
quoted the present statute and said
that IL was in favor of enforcing the
Law JUST AS 1T is. 1t would have
said, whereas. at present. court or
judge may grant temporary re
straining order If there appears to be
danger of irreparable injury from de-
Law therefore be it resolved that we
are opposed to changing it
The men who are responsible for the
language of the injunction plank may
have fooled the rest of the committee
and they may have fooled the con
vention, but they cannot fool the la
boring men or the voters in general.
The Injunction plank has not even
the value of gold-piated brick for
the plating is brass. as well as the in
terror of the brick.
The fraud which the convention at.
tempted will not mislead anyone be
cause there is time enough between
now and election for everyone to find
out the facts.
Secretary Taft is known as the IA
ther of government by injunction and
his speeches in Oklahoma last year
gave conclusive proof of his adherence
to the position taken by him on the
bench. He is still in favor of the use
of the writ of injunction in labor cases
and he is opposed to trial by jury.
In speech delivered in New York
last winter he said. in response to
questions. that the law ought TO be so
amended as to give a hearing before
the Injunction was granted and even
consented that the hearing for con
tempt should be before a different