Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-10

the money of the men who gave II
but money covertly taken withou
consent of stockholders or polio,
holders and entered on the books il
way calculated to conceal the EN-
bezzlement. All this was done in tn
interest OF the Republican candidat,
for president. The money was used
the candidate was elected and h,
continues to deliver lectures on de
cency aad fer honesty in elections
sending messages to congress, OF
publicity of campaign contributions
;but at times when these were certain
to be unayailing. The Chicago con
vention has met has transacted its
business, and has adjourned. The
question of publicity bin was moot
ed there, was defeated, and il would
never have seen the light of day ex
lcept through the unaided efforts OF
one solitary member of the commit
tee on platform and resolutions. who
dragged it out only to witness, It's
ldeep eutom5ment by the body of a
convention. Thus died one of my
policies" to which that convention
in effusiYe. If dictated language. de-
clared in it's platform their "unfalt-
ering adhereney.
injunction and contempts of Court
Let me go on. There has been and
/ is now public demand for legislation
regulating. not aboTishing, the pro-
cess of Injunction and the power to
punish for alleged indirect or con-
structive contempts of courts. Ever
since 1896 the Democratic party have
protested against hasty and illconsid-
cred use of injunctions and has been
insisting on the right of fair trial in
all cases of constructive contempts
The Republican party have been
avoiding this question. So the presi-
Edent, in taking it up. and Mr.. Taft in
ais letter to the labor unions, advo-
Gated a measure that the Democratic
party, acting in behalf of the correct
administration of public justice, has
been demanding for twelve years. If
the president was in earnest wnen
he sent his message TO congress he
was to that extent Democratic.
We are authorized to conclude that
in framing. revising or debating the
Chicago platform he suffered from
lapse of memory or abandoned the
policy he had so vigorously urged in
his official capacity, for he said in
message to congress:
81 also urge that action be take
along the line of recommendations
have already made concerning in
functions in labor disputes. No tenn
porary restraining order should be
issued by any court without notice.
and the petition for a permanent in
junction upon which such temporary
restraining order has been issued
should be heard by the court issuing
the same within a reasonable time
say not to exceed { week or there
abouts-from the date when the order
was issued. It is worth considering
whether it would not give greater
popular confidence in the impartial
ity Of sentences for contempt if it
was required that the issue should be
decided by another judge than the
one issuing the Injunction, except
where the contempt is committed. in
the presence of the court or other
case of urgency"
Surely he and his party eulogists
forgot that he had but recently before
advised congress that sit is worth
considering whether it would not give
greater popular confidence in the i'm
if It was required that the issues
should be decided by another Judge
than the one issuing the Injunction
There has not been a session of
congress in twelve years at which the
Republican, party could not have
passed a law prescribing, defending
and regulating the issuance of in
functions and providing for fair trials
To- 70
been done to give the wage Garner
fair treatment and less than nothing
is offered to him in the Chicago de-
liv6ranca. The meaningless generali-
ties of its injunction plank are an i'll
suit to the intelligence Of those who
demand reasonable and substantial
legislation to prevent the admitted
abuse of this judicial process.
Again the president said to con-
gress:
twenty-five years ago, by Act of
June %. 1886, trades unions were
recognized by law, and the right of
labOring people to combine for lawful
purposes was formally recognized
this right including combinations for
mutual protection of the individual
rights of the workmen in the prosecu-
ton of their trade or trades; and in
Act of June I, 1898. strikes were rec
ogniZed as legal in the same pro
vision that forbade participation in
or instigation of force or violence
against persons or property, or the
to prevent others from
working, by violence, threat or in
linda ton. The business man must
lie protected in person and property,
and so must the farmer and the wage
worker, and as regards all alike, the
rights Of peaceful combination for all
awful purposes should be explicitly
recognized"
And in still another message he
said:
1T must be remembered that a
injunction in labor /
case, if granted without adequate |
proof may often settle the dispute
between the parties, and therefore if !
granted may do irrepara- !
bic wrong. Yet there are many |
judges who assume a matter-of-course !
granting of a preliminary injunction |
10 be the ordinary and proper judicial |
of such cases, and there |
have undoubtedly been fragrant |
wrongs committed by judges in con-
laction with labor even within the |
last few years
II is important to note that the |
Act Of June %, 1896. was passed at |
the first session of tae first congress |
nat met under the first Democratic |
after the civil war and |
~ Ill.