New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-17
WASHINGTON SURPRISED.
HENDERSON'S RETIREMENT WILL
CAUSE A LIVELY FIGHT FOR
THE SPEAkERSHIP.
TnY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRiRUNE.1


Washington Sept. 16-The report from Du-
hnoua that Speaker Henderson had Withdrawn
from the race aor reelection to Congress from
the lid Iowa District startled Washington. and
until it was verified beyond question it found
little credence here. The cause assigned for
his action-that his views In respect to the treat
rnert Of trusts do not agree with those Of many
members of his party in Iowa-is not considered
here of sufficient weight wholly to account for
the sensational course he has taken. Mr.. Hen
derson WAS renominated without opposition in
district that is safely Republican. In the last
election he led his Democratic opponent by
more than eleven thousand votes and the reap
nortionment of the State under the new census
has not cut down the normal Republican ma
jority in the district 1t is generally believed
here that the real cause of MS handing back to
the Republicans of his district the commission
they have so freely given to him ten times is
that like his predecessor in the Speakership.
Mr. Reed he has grown tired of public life
and wishes retire in order to devote himself
wholly to the practice of law. Mr.. Henderson
is a poor man. and it is regarded as likely that
in refusing longer to serve his constituents he
feels that he should apply himself, While still
in robust physical and mental health, to acquir
ing competency for himself and his family TO
fall back on in his old age, and when his earn
There would be scarcely any doubt of his
election as Speaker if he should return to the
next Congress, SO that this assurance offers an
other inducement for him 10 continue to serve
in the House 1t is true that there has been
some talk of opposing him for the Speakership
of the House in the LVIIIth Congress with
younger who is more decided in support
ing the advanced positions taken by some of the
party leaders. but this talk has never been Sc
riously considered in Washington. Those who
know Speaker Henderson best declare that he
is not man to be frightened by such gossip as
this and that he would really relish square
fight within the party questions of policy and
expediency which ne does not indorse. Then, too
it is pointed out that If he is moved to this ac-
ton by the fact that his views on the trust ques-
ton variance with those of a faction of
the party in Iowa he should want to resume his
old place in Congress-. where he could exert his
influence against the very movement to which
he is opposed so heartily.
PARTY DIVISIONS IN IOWA
1t will be recalled that the day after the
adoption of the last Iowa platform The Trib-
unes Washington dispatches told how the tariff
revision plank of the instrument marked the
line OF party division in the Hawkeye State
1t then said that the tariff plank was a
signal victory of the Dover- Cummins- Rob
erts followers over the Allison Henderson Shaw
Wilson people. Governor Cummins is the recog-
nized leader of the group of Iowa Republicans
which is striving to wrest control of the party
in that State from the group headed for so
many years by Senator Allison. Governor Cum
mins's chief lieutenants are Senator Deliver
and George E. Roberts. Director of the Mint.
One of the main objects Of their activity is to
have Governor Cumulins succeed Mr. Allison in
the Senate when that veteran statesman's sixth
term or service to which he was reelected last
winter, expires, in 1909. His fifth consecutive
term. which means that he will round out