The Mena weekly star., 1908-07-09
WORK 0N PLATFORM
INJUNCTION PLANK THE ONLY ONE THAT IS 5oTHERINc
 THE DEMOCRATS.
LEADING MEMBERS OF PARTY WORK HARD
Mayor Brown of Lincoln Arrives With
 MT. Bryan's Draft of Resolutions Conference With Gov. HaskeIl--Mr. Bryan Is Consulted on All DecIsra- tions-5ut Wants Committee Free.

Denver. Col. July s.-Evidences are multiplying that practically the only difficult plank to prepare for the Dem ocratic platform will be that relating to the use of injunctions in industrial disputes. MT. Bryan has let it be known through number of reliable sources that his position on this plank is not rigid.
 Work ca the platform continued Monday through the medium of an in formal subcommittee consisting of Gov. Haskell, who Is to be chairman of the resolutions committee. and number of prominent members of the party who will have places on that committee. The product of this work will be laid before large sub-commit- tee of the resolutions committee when the latter is officially appointed by the convention. The plan contemplates telephoning each plank to Mir. Bryan at Lincoln, as soon as 1t Is agreed upon by the subcommittee. In this manner. 1t will be possible for the subcommittee to present to the full resolutions committee perfected plat form which already has received the stamp of approval of the prospective candidate. So far there has developed no intimation of hostility to Mir Bryan's wishes with reference to the platform. One of these wishes Is un- derstood to be that the platform be the product of the resolutions committee, guided of course in it's drafting by frequent conferences with Fairview.
 During the afternoon Mayor F. w. Brown of Lincoln, who Is to be the Nebraska representative on the com mittee on resolutions, arrived with MT. Bryan's suggestions concerning a number of blanks of the platform in his pocket. Mir. Brown said that it had not been Mir Bryans intention to prepare a complete platform, but that 1t was his wish that the committee itself should perform this duty. He declined to say what subjects were covered by the Bryan draft, but it is understood through other channels that Mir Bryan's memorandum deals especially with the subject Of the regulation of the issuance of writs of injunction by the federal courts in labor disputes; the tariff, the trusts, the railroads, the election of senators. which he would have by direct vote of the people; the guarantee of bank deposits by the government. and the publicity of campaign contributions. The injunction plank as drafted would prohibit the issuance of prohibitive writs without notice except in cases in which It is evident irreparable dam age might be done to property. In that event the plank would permit the issuance of an injunction limited to ten days time, and hearing would be required on the second presenta- ton of the case. Mir. Bryan has given his friends to understand that while he tenders his suggestions, he does not desire that the platform commit tee should feel tied to his language. He is willing that phraseology should be altered if 1t can be improved upon without changing the sense.
 Soon after arriving in the city Mir. Brown went into conference with Gov. Haskell, who will be chairman of the committee on resolutions. and laid be- tore him Mir Bryan's views. Both of them declined to discuss the platform.