Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-17
ENDS LETTER TO COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
Delay in Answering Due to Sounding
Conditions in His District.
,SlGNS DIVERGENT VIEWS As REASON
Dess Not Believe Lowering the Tariff
Will Cure Trust Evils.
PROTECTION GOOD FOR WHOLE COUNTRY
Not Being in Harmony with Platform
and Many People of His District,
He Therefore Declines to
Make Race.


DUBUQUE, Ia, Sept. 16-speaker Hen
derson, finding that his views in respect
to the treatment of trusts by reducing the
tarif, in whole or in part, are not in sc-
cord with the views of many Of his party
in Iowa, has this day declined to accept
the nomination for congress and has with
drawn from the race.
Speaker Henderson has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to Hon. c. e. Albrook of
Eldora, Ia, chairman of the notification
committee;
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 acclamation as re-
publican candidate for congress of the
Repcr conditions in the public mind in
IA my d upHh sinc Y Set,prn 10 the
district have made careful study as to
the sentiment in the district and state, and
and growing sentiment among republicans
that l do not truly represent their views
on the tariff question, Believing this con-
dition to exist and knowing that do not
agree with many OF my people that the
trusts, to which ] am and have been op-
tted by rree trace in whole or In part,
must decline to accept the nominaton so
generously and enthusiastically made
have devoted twenty of the best years of
my lie to the service OF my people ana my
lieved to be best for the farmer, the
laborer and the business interests Of this
dSiGt ana 6 state e am & sTatetH ded Ine e
and TO the hour of my death will hold in a
grateful heart the memory OF that deVo-
/ will later on give in some detail my
views and convictions on our conditions and
or public questions and state my reasons
why the repubiicr party and lis puicies
should continue II. the confidence of the
voters oi the United states ana why the
lodge ment in the faith and teachings of the
republican party. Very truly yours,
d. =. HENDERSON.
Talks COncernIng withdrawal.
Speaker Henderson announced his with
| drawal after a conference of several hours
duration with Chairman Glasser of the
congressional committee and friends this
afternoon. Speaker Henderson has been
contemplating this action for two weeks,
but had intimated nothing OF 1t to his
friends until yesterday At the conference
his friends implored him not to take the
action, but to no avail. He said he had
made up his mind and no argument could
cause him to change his decision. When
asked for his reasons for withdrawal
| Speaker Henderson said
| my letter to Chairman Albrook is the
whole thing in a nutshell. You cannot
| kill the trusts by applying free trade with
! out killing our own Industries. The for
| eign trusts are fighting the American
! trusts, and l do not believe that for the
! purpose OF controlling American trusts we
should make a market for foreign trusts,
thereby crushing out the interests OF this
country.
after the conference at Waterloo, hear
ing the sentiments of the chairman of
my district, I concluded my tariff views
were at variance with those OF many OF
my party and l did not wish to appear in
a false position"
! Speaker Henderson gave out an address
this evening which states his views on
| the tariff and trust questions and because
these views, in his opinion, are not in ac-
cord with the state platform and with
the opinions Of prominent members Of his
party, ne declines to accept the renomina-
tion.
Address to Voters.
The address is to 1.-THE Voters of the
Third Iowa District" He says, being n
republican, he is a protectionist, and il he
ever entertained a doubt as to the wisdom
of the protection policy. comparison be-
tween the present and the past would blot
| out such doubt. He then speaks of the
tariff planks OF the last two national con-
ventions.
Continuing, he said For three years
I have advocated giving control of trusts
to congress. In my judgment proper su-
pervision can never be had until congress
has power to treat with them. I am glad
to see by speeches made by our fearless
and upright chief executive that he is ad-
vocating federal control over these cor
porations and, while In some quarters they
may sneer at IT. have not seen any propo-
sitlon yet, except this, that seems at all
likely to bring relief. No proposition has
ever been made by the democracy except
ing to put everything on the free list and
to give the country free trade. In other
words, they PROPOSED to kill the child
dead in order to cure It,
"In other words, they propose to slaugh-
ter every interest In the United States,
whether capital or labor, in a wild and
blind effort to provide a remedy for trusts.
In my opinion, II combinations could be
regulated and controlled we would have
very little demand for changes in the
tariff law. To show how strongly the re-
publican party feels on the subject, in its
state platform this year It declares for
any modification OF the tariff that might be
required to prevent affording shelter to
monopoly.
Apply Wrong Remedy,
"Our democratic friends treat this as
moving into free trade ground. 1t is moth
ing OF the sort. It is bold declaration
that II notifications OF the tarin are re-
quired to prevent monopoly from shelter
ing itself under the wings OF protection
then the tariff laws shall be modified to
prevent that condition. For my part, II any
great interest in this country is prosper
a. ,v,A gg
ing its advantage, growth and prosperity
TO plunder the American people, for one
am ready to strike 1t by whatever legal
means we may be able TO adopt providing
that by so doing we will not hurt innocent
persons. l am not prepared TO say We will
strike down American combinations and
let outside corporations come in and dc
the work, but / would like to control ouI
own corporations. l have been moro
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