New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-18
HENDERSON AND TRUSTS
HOW WASHINGTON POLITICIANS VIEW
THE SPEAKERS ACTION
THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN IOWA Elk
planned BY GEORGE Z. ROBERTS.
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TBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.l
Washington. Sept 17-Special dispatches
from various part Of Iowa published to-day by
the Washington newspapers and expressions OBJ
tanned through other sources from leading Re
puhlicans representing all shades Of opinion
bear out the diagnosis Of the Speaker Hender-
son incident made in The Tribunes Washing
ton correspondence last night. There is a re
r1arkable unanimity Of opinion that the Speak
er's sensational retirement from. active partic-
nation in politics viii have other effect on
the pending Congress campaign than 10 accent
nate the importance of the trust question as a
sharp issue in the contest pending for con-
troll of the next House The cause which MI
Henderson assigns for his strange and wholly
unexpected conduct at the opening of an inter
asting fight is generally accepted as indicating
his unalterable opposition to the admlnistra-
tion's antitrust policy, and ii is agreed that
Il was better for him step aside and thus
give place in his district supporter Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's contention with respect to the
trusts than to come back to Congress deter
mined either TO oppose the President or TO 1T
tempt to remain neutral in contest which is
sire &c arouse much party spirit 1t is EVIDENT
as heretofore stated in these dispatches that the
Younger element OF Republicans in Iowa, under
the leadership Of Governor Cummns and George
z Roberts Director OF the Mint. have wrested
control Of the party in that State from the
older elem mt chief among whom for many
years Speaker Henderson has stood. and that
full realization Of this fact has convinced Mr..
Henderson that his political career is rapidly
drawing TO close. With his position in the
party in his own State thus seriously menaced
by his frankly avowed opposition TO Some OF
President Roosevelt's clearly defined policies
and purposes, IL is not hard for persons &C
o1;ainted with Mr.. Henderson's character and
temperament 10 understand why he would pre-
fer to quit public life while at the very pin
nacle OF his power and prestige rather than
suffer the humiliation Of forced retirement 10
an inconspicuous place outside of the controlling
power.
POSSIBILITY OF A SECOND NOMINATION.
II is considered possible. Of course that his
voluntary withdrawal at this time has SIMS
ter purpose OF little significance, and that
he may expect his constituents to rally to his
support and renominate him noers volcas. If
a second nomination should be forced" on him.
n would be legitimate ground for him to stand
on in any effort he might make in the
remote future to lead the Republican forces. not
only in his own State. but throughout the ma ton
that are opposed to the Presidents attitude to-
ward the trusts and his remedy for the cure of
the evils in the trust system. This does not
mean that Mr.. Henderson would be a candidate
for President BY the accident of birth the
Presidency is beyond his reach He was born
In Scotland and under the constitution no citi-
zen of foreign birth is eligible TO the Presidency
But Mr. Henderson. as before stated. did aspire
10 the Senate and had hoped round out his
public career in rhe upper house OF Congress.
However. since the control Of the party in Iowa
has been seized by the Cunmins- Roberts ele-
rnent, Mr.. Henderson has perforce bade fare well
10 his Senatorial aspirations, and in a political
sense has nothing now TO hope for except TO
lead a movement for general revolt against the
forces which have been the cause Of his I'M
doing Cnquestionably, If he should be elected
70 the next House in spite of himself, he would
be the centre Of q powerful group Of men in
Congress that might be able to hold in check
for a considerable time the movement for the
regulation of the trusts through national legis-
latfon and that could also seriously hamper
all efforts for a general and radical revision OF
the Dingley tariff schedules. OF course this
would defeat Mt. Henderson's reelection to the
speakership, but it is argued that IL he is so
uassionately devoted to the Dingley tariff law
as he seems TO be. he would willingly immediate
his ambition on the altar Of that cause. The
contest for the Speakership of the House
cannot be decided until the LVIIIth Congress-
TO be elected IN November. assemblies in Decem-
Der 1903 unless OF course, the President should
call an extra session next spring. and many
Developments IN national politics liable to
occur in the interval that il is not impossible
for the country to around TO Mr.. Hender-
sons views of the trusts and the tariff, and