Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-07-15
FROM THE
REPUBLICANS DEcEIvlNe LABOR
MIR. BRYAN'S PAPER

The antiinjunction plank of the Re.
publican platform, as finally adopted,
Is transparent fraud. 1t Is possible
that the members of the committee
were buucoed by some trust lawyer
that is the only charitable view that
can be taken of it. Those who advo-
Gated the plank claimed to be doing
II as concession TO the wage earn
9r5, and yet if one will read the plank
he will see that it is in fact an an
nouncement that the Republican party
IS unaiterably opposed to the laboring
mans position. The plank reads as
follows: The Republican party will
uphold at all times the authority and
integrity of the courts, state and fed
eral, and Will ever insist that their
powers 10 enforce their processes and
TO protect life, liberty and property
shall be preserved inyiolate. We be-
N2Ve. however, that the rules of pro-
cedure in federal court, with respect
10 the issuance Of q writ of injunction,
should be more accurately defined by
the statute; that no injunction or tenn
porary restraining order should be is
sued without notice, except where ir-
reparable injury would result from de-
lay, in which case a speedy hearing
thereafter should be granted"
1t will be seen that the plank begins
with an unnecessary eulosy OF the
courts. Nobody is opposed to uphold
ing at all times the authority and in
tegrity Of the courts. Nobody is OBJ
jectiug to the enforcement Of their
processes or to their exercise of their
powers to protect life, liberty and
property. The plank assumes that
somebody is 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
whore of interfering with any legiti-
mate function of the court. The Re
publican convention puts up man of
straw and then proceeds to demolish
1t; it suspects an unholy assault upon
the Judiciary and its righteous indigua-
ton at once finds expression in a
boastfui assertion of it's innocence of
participation in any such suspected
assault. This part of the plank was
written to give assurance to the peo-
pie who are opposed to the laboring
mans plea. And now let us proceed
to that part of the plank which was
intended as sop 10 the laboring man.
1t says: I'VE believe, however, that
the rules OF procedure in the federal
court with respect to the issuance of
writ of injunction should be more ac-
curately defined by the statute" Gust
what that definition shall be is not
stately That no Injunction or tenn
porary restraining order should be
issued without notice, EXCEPT
WHERE IRREPARABLE INJURY
WOULD RESULT FROM DELAY, in
which case 4 speedy hearing there
after should be granted" Note the
words in capitals except WHERE
IRREPARABLE INJURY WOULD
RESULT FROM DELAY, and com
pare this exception with the federal
statute IN the subject and you will
find that under the law AS IT 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 en-
Cepti5n as broad as the statute. If
the convention had been frank in the
statement of its position it would have
quoted the present statute and said
that H. was in favor of enforcing the
law JUST AS IT IS. 1t would have
said. whereas. at present, a court or
Judge may grant n temporary re-
straining order if there appears TO be
danger of irreparable injury from de-
lay 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-
ventiOu. but they cannot fool the la
boring men or the voters In general
The injunction plank has not even
the value of n gold-piated brick for
the plating is brass, as we'll as the in
terror Of the brick.
The fraud which the convention at.
tempted will not misiead 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
Their ot 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 a 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
judge from the one who granted the
injunction. but when he came to pre-