New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
PLAN PLEASES BRYAN
National Democratic Club. zCath
State and County Branches.

Lincoln Aur s-As the result of a visit to Will
lam J. Bryan to-day of Senator Bob Tayior. Oh
Tennessee who is here to deliver Chautanaua
lecture. the national committee of the Democratic
party with the concurrence of Mr.. Bryan VIII
soon enter upon most elaborate plan for ascer-
tanning sentiment of the country toward their
standard bearers.
This plan contemplates the formation Of ma
tions1 Democratic club with state and county
clubs as subsidiaries whose duty it will be to re-
port the central organization data favoranie OF
unfavorable TO the national ticket 1t Is proposeo
that these clubs shall poll the United STATES
The proposition regarding the national cruz
promptly appealed to Mr.. Bryan. who said ne
would not wait for his visit TO Chicago in couple
of weeks but would at once take steps to get the
national club under way.
Senator Taylor was accompanied 10 Fairview by
Mayor F. W. Brown of Mr.. Bryans stanchest
friends and closest advisers. IT have been in Kan
sas Missouri and Indiana said Senator Taylor
ITO my mind, Bryan has a better chance 1or eLec
ton than Cleveland had in 1892. found many re
publicans in Kansas who told me they would vote
for BRYAN and as for Indiana, the prospects lot
Democratic success good" He predicted that
Tennessee would go Democratic by 10000
Aside from this the most important announce
ment from Fairvew to-day was the decision Oh MT.
BRYAN to make an extended speech on the tarln
question at Des Mones. Iowa, August H. ana 10
spend the three following days in Chicago in con-
sultation with Chairman Mack and other party
leaders.
When asked whether ne mad noticed NHdl iht-nS
of the Republican candidates in Nebraska were
coming out in favor of guaranty of bank deposits
Mr. Bryan replied that he had been told So 1T
is one of the straws that show which way the
wind Is blowing" said he Mr. Bryan will discuss
this subject in his Forthcoming Topeka speech.
Among the other visitors to Fairvtew to-day was
Alexander Corkey, of Ireland. who called 10 pay
his respects. He left the Bryan home with
souvenir from the Democratic nominee in the shape
of a small stone from the Sea of Galiee picked up
by Mr.. Bryan on his trip around the world An
other caller DIR. Charles A. E. Stewart. Of
Cedar Bluffs, Neb., who was a member of the
convention which nominated Mr.. Bryan for MS
first term in Congress. The two men had not met
in several years. DR.. Stuart brought encouraging
reports regarding the political situation in his sec
ton.
Tonight Mr.. Bryan gave out for publication his
reply 10 a circular letter sent to business men OF
the country by James w Van Cleave, president Of
the Manufacturers Association. urging them to go
to the polls in November and bury Bryan and
Organism forever" Mr.. Bryan accuses Mr. Van
Cleave of having narrow idea of what constitutes
q business man, and enters into elaborate de-
fence of his policies.
Mr.. Bryan declares that the pamphlet Of Mr.. Van
Cleave raises two questions: First, is there any
thing in the labor plank of the Democratic plat
form to which business justly take excep
ton; and second is the labor question important
to business to justify them in ignoring
all other issues?
Mr.. Bryan says that the provision In the Demo
cratic platform for the creation of labor de-
partment with Cabinet officer at its head cannot
possibly offend business He then says:
The platform draws a distinction between
sociatons of wage earners organized for the pro-
lection of wages and the Improvement of labor
conditions and industrial corporations which act
IN restraint Of trade The difference between
no distinterested person will deny that they
kinds of organizations together and deal with
them under one law is bound to do injustice to
Ia hing man ~
have no vital concern in including the labor
carnations in the antitrust laws.
Mr.. Bryan then takes up the plank providing
for trial by jury IN cases of indirect contempt.
He insists that this cannot raise a question of
vital concern to business men. because every
has right to jury trial. He then says:
An attempt has been made to raise false issue
the demand for trial by jury is an assault upon
the integrity Of the courts. Those who make this
the jury in all cases, for the jury system itself
cases.
Cleave probably has in mind This Is the plank
that declares that parties all judicial proceed
that an Injunction should not issue in any in
enae an would not lie If no
upon Partially in judicial proceedings? Do they
trial dispute should justify an injunction? That
plank does not attempt to Interfere with the issue
but it does oppose the issue Of an Injunction merely
Cussion of industrial dispute.
Mr.. Van Cleave asserts that this plank "a
class spirit" and constitutes a demand for "class
favors." But this is not true. 1t is declaration
that the writ of injunction should not be used for
the purpose of creating class favOring class.
The laboring resent attempt to discriminate
against them in favor of any other class.
Mr. Bryan, in conclusion. declares that Mr.. Van
Cleave does the business man injustice in ''as
Stunning that his waking hours filed with fears
of the wage and that his nights rest is
broken by imaginary disputes with those who
TOLL
The reception accorded Judge Alton B. Parker
in Los Angeles last night when he delivered
address strongly supporting Bryan and Kern, was
a source of much pleasure to Mr. Bryan. It
the expectation that Judge Parker. in response 10
an invitation from the Democratic nominee. would
stop off in Lincoln his way east, but Judge
Parker wrote that before the invitation
ceived he had planned to go home by another
route He, however. pledged his services during
the campaign and will make numerous speeches.