The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-09-25
REPUBLICANS HAVE A BREAK.
SPEAKER HENDERSON OUT
WITH HIS PARTY.

He Declines to Make Race fo,
Congress as an Exponent o
Tariff Reform.
Speaker Henderson, finding that hi.
J views III respect TO the treatment o.
trusts by reducing the tariff in whole OF
IN part are not in accord with the vie Hs
of many of his party in Iowa, has de-
cllned to accept the nomination fol
Congress and has withdrawn from the
race. The following letter was ad.
dressed TO g. Il. Albrook, chairman of
The notification committee, Eldorado,
Iowa, by Mr.. Henderson:
My Dear Sir: l have never an
swercd the kind notice communicated
by you and your associates, advising
me OF my nomination for the eleventh
time by acclamation as tho Republican
candidate for Congress Of the I'd Con-
gressional district of Iowa. Reported
conditions in the public mind in nv
district upon public policies induced
mo to make this delay. Since my re-
turn to the district l have made q care
tul study as TO the sentiment III the
district and State, and l believe there
ls no little sentiment and growing
sentiment among Republicans that
40 not truly represent their views on
the tariff question. Believing this
condition to exist, and knowing that
90 not agree with many of my people
tnat trusts, to which l am and have
been opposed, can be cured or the
people benefited by free trade in whole
or in part, must decline to accept
the nomination 80 generously and en-
Enthusiastically made. l have devoted
twenty of the best years of my life to
the service of my people anu my coun-
try, and L have fought for what be-
lievcd to be best for the farmer, the
laborer and the business interests of
This district and State. l am grateful
Tor the devotion that has ever been ac-
corded me, and TO the hour of nv
death l will hold in grateful heart
the memory of that devotion. / 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 Republican part, and
Its policies should continue in The con-
fidcnce of the votors of the United
States, and why the doctrines of the
Democracy should find no lodgmcnt in
the faith and teachings of the Ropubli-
can party.
d. Is. HENDERSON"
Speaker Henderson announced his
withdrawal after a conference of
several hours duration with Chairman
Glasser, of the Congressional COM
mittee, and friends. Speaker Hcndcr-
son has been contemplating this action
for two weeks, but had intimatod
nothing of it TO friends. His friends
have implorcd him not to take the ac-
ton, but to no avail. lie said he had
made up his mind and no argument
could cause him to change his decision.
When asked for his reasons he said:
" My letter to Chairman Albrock is
tho whole thing in a nut shell. You
cannot kill the trusts by applying free
trade without killing our own indus.
tries. The foreign trusts are fighting
the American trusts an do not be-
lieve that for the purpose of control
ling American trusts we should make a
market for foreign trusts, thereby
| crushing out the industries of this
country. After my conference last
Saturday at Waterloo, hearing the
views OF the chairman of my district,
l concluded that my views on the tariff
question were at variance with those
OF many OF my party and / did not de-
sire to appear in false position"
Speaker Henderson has given out an
address, which states his views on the
tariff and trust questions, and becausc
these views, in his opinion, are not in
accord with the State platform and
with the opinions of prominent mem.
bers OF his party, he declined to accept
the nomination.
| " For threo years / have advocated
giving control of trusts to Congress.
In my judgment proper supervision
can never be had until Congress has
power to control them. l am glad to
see from speeches made by our fearless
and upright Chief Executive that he ia
advocating Federal control over these
corporations, and while in some quar-
ters they may sneer at it, I have not
seen any proposition yet except this
that seems at all likely TO bring relief
No proposition has ever been made b,
the Democrats except to put everything
on the free list and to give the coun
try free trade. In other words, the,
propose to kill tho child dead in ordc
to secure it: In my opinion if com
bines could be regulated and controlled
we would have very little ground fo
f changes in the tariff laws. For m,
f part if any great interest in this coun
try is prosperous through protectiv
| policies o. any other legislation and i
, using it's advantages, growth and pros
, |perity to plunder the American people
. /, for one, am ready to strike it b.
whatever legal means We may be abl,
to adopt, providing that in so doip,
we do not hurt innocent interests.
have been more amused than hurt q
n the suggestions that I have beer
0 against any changes in tho tariff.
have mover becn opposed to maxim,
e needed changes and am not now.
9 must say, and emphatically, that d.
not believe that q single schedule O
the Dingley tariff law can be 90 amend