THE PRESIDENCY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 317, 2 October 1908, Page 7

THE PRESIDENCY.

INDEPENDENCE PARTY'S CANDIDATE. A TRUST-FIGHTER. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND MR. BRYAN. IDT TILIOBArn—ntESS ASSOCIATION* —COrTRIGHT.) (Rec. October 1, 11.35 p.m.) Now York, October 1. Mr. Thomas L. Hisgen, of Massachusetts, whom Mr. Hearst induced tho Independence party to select as their candidate for the Presidency, is one of four brothers—manufacturers of axis grease—whom tho Standard Oil Trust vainly tried to crush because they refused to sell their business for £120,000. Mr. W. J. Bryan, Democratic candidate, in another lettor, declares that, if lio is elected, he will enforco tho anti-trust laws persistently and consistently, not spasmodically and intermittently, as President Roosevelt has dono. Tho-latter declines to' reply to Mr. Bryan's last letter, on the ground that the controversy is now descending to personalities. THE HEARST-HISGEN PROGRAMME. The platform of the Independence Party stands for direct nominations, the initiative and referendum arid the right of the people to repall publio officers from the publio service. : It demands, severe legislation against corrupt practices at elections, i.nd would have the use of money in campaigns prohibited except for meetings, literature and the travelling expenses of candidates. Calling 1 for economy, it denounces, the " gross extravagance of Federal administration. It advocates the enactment of laws to prevent watering of stock, and remarks that the labour planks of the Republican and Democratic platforms are "political buncombe and contemptible claptrap unworthy of national parties claiming to be serious and sincere." "We assert," it continues, "that in all actions growing out of a dispute botween employers and employees concerning terms or conditions of employment, no injunction rliould issue until after a trial upon the merits, that such trial should be held before a jury, and that'in no case of alleged contempt should any person be deprived of liberty without a jury trial." It calls for the eight-hour day, laws against any conspiracy to blacklist employees, stringent laws , filing' employers' liabilities, a rigid prohibition of child labour, a central government bank, tariff ''evision involving a gradual reduction of duties, a withdrawal of protection abused by trusts, a physical valuation of railroads,: an inter-State commerce Court, imprisonment for violation of the anti-' (just law, government ownership of telegraphs, postal savings banks, a rapid extension of the parcels post_ system, a national system of good roads,' prohibition of fictitious sales of farm products for future delivery, an exclusion law protecting American workmen against Asiatic cheap labour, a strong navy, a graduated income tax, and the popular election of Senators and of judges, both Slate and Federal.