The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-17
SPEAKER IS OUT
OF THE RUNNING
General Henderson Canvasses the
Sentiment and Declines to
Stand for Congress.
"Cannot Kill the Trusts by Applying
Free Trade Without Killing
Our Own Industries"
Comedies He Is Not in Harmony
With Many Experimentation
News Is Received.

News Is Received.
Henderson refused to reconsider his with
drawal from the congressional race in the
third district. This morning the following
Geographic reply was received in response
to request to reconsider his action.
Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 17.-Messrs. LATE
Young and S. w. Rathbun, Des Moines,
Iowa: Your Joint telegram sincerely APP
preclated, but cannot reconsider, for after
an age spent In fighting for my country,
state and district, ! cannot acquiesce In
administering free trade poison to cure
the trust evil which abhor
david 3. Henderson.
Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 17.-General D.
B. Henderson, speaker of the house Of
representa- tives, after a careful canvass
OF the sentiment in his district, has de-
clded to decline denomination for con-
gress.
Much feeling against the speaker was
aroused after the publication of letter
written by him to a friend in Waterloo,
in which he undertook to explain the
situation in congress on the tariff ques
ton. This letter was understood to give
the speakers attitude. and despite his
reiterated statements to the contrary,
StiII GU up HULL ADVERSE SSilllllell III ZIG
district.
The following letter was addressed to
G. E. Albrook, chairman of the notifica-
ton committee, Eldora, Iowa, by Mr..
Henderson:
Letter of Withdrawal.
My Dear Sir: l have never answered til"
kind notice communicated by you and your
sociates advising of my nomination for the
eleventh time by reclamation as the republican,
candidate for congress for the third congressional
district Of Iowa.
Reported conditions in the public mind in my
district upon public policies induced me to make
this delay.
Since my return to this district I have made
a careful study to the sentiment in this
district and stnte, and l believe there Is no
little sentiment and u growing sentiment.
among republicans, that do not truly represent
their views the tariff question.
Believing this condition to exist, and know
ing that do not agree with many of my people
that trusts, to which 1 and have been op-
posed, be cured, or the people benefited by
free trade, in whole In part. 1 must de-
cline to accept the nomination so generously and
enthusiastically made.
I have devoted twenty of the best years Of
my life to the service of my people and my
country, and have fought for what 1 believed
to be best for the farmer, the laborer and the
business interests of this district and state.
l am grateful for the devotion that has ever
been accorded ME, and to the hour of my death
VIII hold In a grateful heart the memory Of
that devotion.
will give later on, in some detail, my views
ana CONVICTIONS OF our conditions and public
questions and will state my why the
republican party and it's policies should continue
in the confidence Of the voters of the United
States and why the doctrine of the democracy
should find no Judgment in the faith and teach
lngs of the republican party. Very truly yours
D. B. Henderson.
In Extenso. '
Speaker Henderson announced his
withdrawal after a conference Of several
hours duration with Chairman Chaser Of
ha opl fr;o ,Ie,
yesterday afternoon. He has been con-
templating this action for two weeks but
had intimated nothing of it to friends I'M
til yesterday. When asked for his rea-
for his withdrawal, Speaker IIender-
son said:
My letter to Chairman Albrook' is the whole
thing In nutshell. oYu canont kill the trusts
by applying free trade without killing our owl,
industries. The foreign trusts are fighting the
American trusts, and l do not believe that for
the purpose of controlling American trusts we
should make market for foreign trusts, thereby
crushing out the industries of this country.
After my conference last Saturday at Waterloo
hearing the views of chairmen of my district
concluded that my views the tariff question
at variance with those of many of my
party, and did not desire to appear In
false position.
For three years have advocated giving con
troll of trusts to congress. In my judgment
proper supervision car never be had until con
gress has power to treat them. am glad Il
see from speeches made by fearless and peer
less cnl6I advocate Cnat he Is advocating con trO
over thes corporations, and while in quart
ers they may sheer at 1t have not seen an!
proposition yet except this, that seems at al
likely to bring relief. No proposition has eve
been made by the democracy except to pu
everything the free list and to give tn,
country free trade. In other words, they pro
pose 10 kill the child dead In ordr to cure it.
They propose to slaughter every interest IL
the United States whether capital or labor in
wild and blind effort to provide remedy 70
trusts. In my opinion, if combinat lions coul
be regulated and controlled WOud have
little demand for changes in the tariff laws.
His Home State Platform.
To show how strongly the republican part
feels upon the subject In it's state platform thi
year. 1t declares in favor of any modification
Of the tariff that may be required to proven
affording shelter to monopoly.
Our democratic friends treat this movin
into free trade grounds It's nothing of tn
sort. It's bold declaration that If modfca
tons Of the tariff required to prevent NOR
opoly from sheltering itself under the wings c
protection, then the tariff shall be modified t
prevent that protection. For my part, if an
great interest in this country is prospern
through protective policies or any other legisl.
ton and is using advantages, growth and pro-
perity to plumber the American people, l fl
one am ready to strike 1t by whatever leg
may be able to adopt, provided thu
In 80 doing we do not hurt innocent interest
I'm not prepared to say l would be willing
strike down and destroy American combination
and let foreign combinations come in and
the work, but I would like to control O,
own corporations that there could be fair pla
among the American people.
I have been more amused than hurt at IL
suggestions that have been against any chang,
in the tariff. While I have been against a gel
era1 revision, recognizing the wisdom of Pres
dent Roosevelt in his first message to congress
in which he advised against it have never bee
opposed to making needed changes and l am NJ
now. I must say and emphatically, that {
not believe that single schedule of the Dim
ley tariff law be amended as to relic,
the people from the oppression of trusts
combina tons of capital however named and sue
action may mean the retardiDg of our expandir
commerce and getting and holding Of foreia
markets. Indeed, I believe such plan to
fraught with grave dangers to the people.
Firm Believer In Reciprocity.
am firm believer In reciprocity. 1 work.
with untiring zeal to secure the reciprocal q
rangenent between Cuba and this country al
was successful in passing it through the hous
The senate did not on the bill because co
sideration of 1t would have opened up the who
question of tariff revision. l have nothi
to say about the ratification of treaties, b
the reciprocal relations upon which 1t legislat
In respect to Cuba were not in the ma ture
treaties, but they reciprocal arrangement
think our country would have had the best
the bargain although doubtlessly they wou
have been Of great advantage to Cuba.
While l cannot speak for the prospects
favorable action upon bills sent to the senate,