BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-30

of the Younger and most energetic
members of the House. He IS an ex- Y
cellent presiding officer, a good parlia--
mentarian, fair in his rulings and
popular with the members en- both
sides of the chamber. He will no dou'}t
have the support of New York -NH
possibly will fall heir to the strength
of the organization if he decides to be-
come a candidate. But Mr. Sherman
has been seriously considering the pos
sibility of his own retirement from con-
gress in order to give his attention to
business affairs at home. His friends
predict that he will take advantage OF
the present situation, accept reelection.
and become a candidate for speaker.
Mr. Little6ed of Maine is ambitious
to became speaker, and his friends have
for some time urged him to became
candidate, even against Speaker Hen
derson. The embarrassment to Mr
| Littlefe1d will be that he was IN the
last session one of the most conspicuous
opponents of President Roosevelt's policy
for Cuban reciprocity. There is little
probability of the Republicans electlng
Iany man as speaker who is arrayed
against the administration. There has
been an effort to create the impression
THAT Mr. Littlefeld would be the Pres
idents spokesman on the trust question
in the next congress, but recent events
1Ietyo ialt1.cestss7 rt1sst t11o PRESIDENT had
: not been consulted on that plan.
The successful candidate for speaker
will probably come from the west, and
4 as between Mr. Cannon and Gen. Gros-
venor or any other western man, Can
non would have considerable advantage
by reason of his long service, his thor
ough knowledge of men and measures
and the confidence reposed in his judg-
ment by Republicans generally.
Speaker Henderson's letter declining
a denomination for congress, addressed
to G.. E.-Albrook, chlirman of the not
ifcation committee, at Aldora, Ia, is as
follows:
My Dear Sir-I have never answered
the kind notice communicated by you
and your associates advising me of my
nomination for the eleventh time BY
acc1amation as the Republican candid
j ate for congress for the Third Congress
District of Iowa. Reported conditions
in the public mind in my district upon
, public policies induce me to make this
! Edelay. Since my return to the district
: have made careful study as to the
sentiment in the district and state, and
I believe there is no little sentiment,
, and a growing sentiment, among Re
/ publicans that | do not truly represent
: their views on the tariff question.
| Believing this condition to exist, and
, knowing that do not agree with many
: of my people that trusts, to which am
and have been opposed, can be cured
I or the people benefited by free trade.
in whole in part must decline to
|, accept the nomination SO generously
, and enthusiastically made.
) have devoted twenty of the best
years of my life to the service of my
people and my country, and have
fought for what l believed to be best
for the farmer, the laborer aud the
business interests of this district and
Estate. / am grateful for the devotion
q that has ever been accorded me, and to
! the hour of my death will hold in a
Il grateful heart the memory of that dew
lotion. / will give later on in some
detail my views and convictions on our
conditions and on public questions, and
will state my reasons why the Repubi
lean party and its policies should con-
tinue in the confidence of the voters of
i the United States, and why the doctrines
||of the Democracy should find no lodg-
ment in the faith and teachings of the
/ Republican party. Very truly yours.
D. B. HENDERSON,