The sun., 1908-07-10
PLATFORM GOES
BEYOND BRYAN
Committee Comedies More TO
Gompsrs Than CandI-
date Favored.
COURT PLANK IS RADICAL
Provides for Trial by Jury Of
All Cases Of Contempt Out
side Courts View.

Physical Valuation OF Railroads, Power
for Interstate Commission to In.
auEurate Rates, Income Tax, Tax on
Banks to Guarantee Deposits, Direct
Election OF Senators, Statehood for
Arizona and New Mexico, Telegraph
and Telephone Control and More
Currency Is Legislation Demanded
Prohibition OF Aslatlc Immigration
and an Adequate Navy Promised.
CONVENTION HALL, DENVER. July 9.-The
platform Of the Democratic party was
presented to the national convention at a
late hour tonight by Gov. Haskell Of Okla
homa, chairman of the committee on resolu-
tions.
This momentous document Of many
words had been completed only short time
before 1t was reported to the convention.
It was born of much debate, large part
OF which was regarded as trivial and un-
necessary. The platform subcommittee of
the committee on resolutions and the COM
mittee itself had rewritten and revised,
amended and amplihed- ampli-
fied-until the platform contained some ex-
preston upon nearly every topic which
through a stretch Of the imagination could
be included in an exposition Of political
principles.
The platform subcommittee had fin
ished its work by O'Clock this afternoon,
when the committee on resolutions Of fifty
members began to take up and consider
the planks which the subcommittee had
drafted Everybody appeared to desire to
talk and an advertisement Of "The Cave Of
tho Winds tackled to the outside wall Of
the committees meeting place assumed q
new and pointed significance.
1t had been promised that the platform.
already provokingly delayed in presenta-
ton. would be reported to the convention
at o'clock, but at that hour the committee
was still engaged in It's tallsfest. with no
certainty when it's wordy pastime would
cease.
In the platform will be found a radical
plank labelled Labor and injunctions,"
which comedies much to the demands of
the labor unonists and goes beyond what
Bryan in his desire to conciliate the con-
servative wing of the party was willing to
allow. This plank ignores tho matter of
a declaration In regard to requiring Judges
to give notice before issuing injunctions.
advocates trial by jury in cases Of indirect
contempt Of court in labor cases and de-
clares that injunctions should not issue
in industrial cases where no injunction
would issue IL an industrial dispute was not
involved.
This plank has been approved by Samuel
Gompers, but In unsatisfactory to the rail-
way trainmen.
Flattering expressions OF confidence in
the integrity Of the courts arc contained in
one sentence while In the next breath lack
of confidence is intimated
The exemption of labor unions from the
operations Of the anti trust laws this being
equivalent to recognition of the boycott and
blacklist Is advocated by the platform.
constitutional amendment To permit a
tax on individual and corporate incomes Is
The creation of treasury
fund derived from bank taxation is advo-
Gated aA a means Of guaranteeing bank
deposits. II the guarantee fund Is not
obtained then let us haye postal savings
banks. declares the platform.
State control over railroads Is demanded,
as Is legislation to ascertain the physical
valuation of railroads and reduction Of
rates. A pledge Is given to
enact q law for the publication OF election
expenses and forbidding corporations from
to campaign funds.
The election Of Senators by direct vote
Is advocated. The Filipinos must be
granted independence. and until then must
nave free trade with the United States.
President Roosevelt is condemned for foro-
Ing Taft's nomination. Speaker Cannon ls
severely for arbitrary methods. The
tariff must be reduced and articles COM
peting with trust made articles must be
placed ON the free list. As attic immigrants
who cannot amalgamate with our popu-
alton must be kept out This Is conces.
,ion to anti-Japanese az tators on the
Pacific Coast
There are other things in this remarkable
other things. II any
Bryan or La Toilette theory except the
'ree coinage Of silver at the ratio Of 10 to 1
8 omitted the omission has not been OBJ
,erved up to the present reading.
Nearly three hours debate followed the |
'eading Of the tariff plank TO the committee |
IN resolutions and 1t was this which had !
most to do with the delay in completing ,
he platform. After this long discussion |
h. plank was adopted without change.