The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-07

that in the compromise plank the Re
publican convention only pledged the
party 70 maintain the present law, for
he points out that the existing law
authorizes injunetions without notice,
only where 'tthere appears TO be dan
ger of irreparabie injury from delay. -
So Mr.. Bryan asserts that the Chicago
| plank IS transparent fraud and is
going for the Republicans hammer and
tongs for handing the laboring men
what Is not as good as a gold plated
brick.
There viii be much more about this
| plank before the campaign is over.
Secretary Taft will undoubtedly have
something of interest to say about it
when he writes his letter of acceptance
The Democrats at their national con-
ventIon at Denver, viii also have some
thing of interest about anti-inj junction
IN their platform. This raises the in
qulry whether Mr.. Bryan is going to
be able to write the platform on which
he runs or whether some more eonser-
vatlve Democrats than he will be able
| TO write it for him. The business men
| of the country generally do not want a
strong anti-injunction plank and prefer
| to have nothing about it at all in their
platform. But the radical Republicans
and the radical Democrats are deter
mined that the issue shall be kept to
the front and probably they will find
something more to their satisfaction in
the Denver plank when it is written.
THE VICE PRESIDENCY.
| The administration < defeat in the
! platform was hardly as signal as it was
/ in the matter of the Vice Presidency.
| The arriving politicians recite wildly
the conditions that prevailed at Chi
cage in the selection of the running
mate. E'Your Uncle Joseph" Cannon,
at the Union League Club by the Lake
side, flushed with victory in the fight
over the platform, was ready to jump
right in and make the fight for the
nomination of the man he wanted for
running mate The moment Secretary
| Taft s nomination for the Presidency
was announced, the Speaker was at it
for Jim Sherman. He had first sent
man to the telegraph Office to wire
at the earliest moment his congratula-
tions to Secretary Taft. The man had
gone in advance to the operating Office
of the Western Union Company to wait
the "flash - of Taft s nomination and
to have wire cleared to Washington
so that the Speaker s message could go
through without delay or hindrance.
1t was the Speaker S generalship that
made Sherman s nomination possible.
Senator Curtis, of Kansas, a strong Taft
state; Representative Tawnev of Mime.
sofa, another strong Taft state, and so
on down with Representatives or for
mer representatives through a long line
of Taft states, had Joined the Speaker 3
campaign for the nomination of Sher
man. They had been active in com
hitting their delegations to Sherman,
| before President Roosevelt and Secre-
tary Taft had time to center upon any
candidate and before word could be
passed to the loyal.
Therefore the afternoon and the night
of Thursday were devoted TO this or.
ganizing under the Speaker S direction.
The Taft managers were in consultation
in a little room in the Auditorium An
mex. They wanted a man from the Mis-.
sissippi valley. for the radical or pro-
gressive sentiment is strong in that see
ton and in that section probably the
Republican campaign will be lost or
won First the President indicated a
desire for Dolliver of Iowa but Iowa
would not permit Doliiver to be nomi-
mated, because it would make a vacancy
in the Senate and open up a tremen-
dously bitter fight in Iowa between the
conservatives and the radicals as to
endanger the legislature and make
probable the election within a year or
two of two Democratic United States
Senators from that state. That might
seem to some people. so the politicians
/ say, like an exaggera ton but it was
made with such force and authority at
Chicago as to convince tho party lead
ers of both factions that it was true.
The President telephoned the little
conference of Taftites in the AudIto-
rum Annex that they must find man
E'Of the flannel shirt variety in the
Mississippi valley to run with Taft
and they kept searching for such
man. They took up Senator Warner of
Missouri, for time, but abandoned
him. They did not believe he would
do at all They talked of Governor
Cummins Of Iowa. a progressive, and by
Friday morning the administration had
settled upon Governor Cummins or Sen
ator Beverdge of Indiana. This was
after they had considered Governor
Sheldon of Nebraska, and decided that
he would not do and after they had
turned once more to Vice President
Fairbanks only to be told that the Vice
President would not accept a renomina-
ton. that the Indiana delegates would
not present his name to the convention.
although they would vote for him If
Ohio, his native state, presented his
narae.
But all this time ''Uncle Joe" Can,
non had been 'plugging away with
the Sherman boom. had planned to 60
upon the convention floor and to sec
ond sherman s nomination, if he could
secure unanimous consent so to do,
which consent eventually was granted.
So when the last day of the conven-
ton began Friday morning the old
fighter from Illinois had his forces all
in position. The Republican Congress
sional Committee officials, shrewd and
adept at politics. were nearly all on the