The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-10-23
.CONFRONTS A CRISIS
WILL REPUBLICANS DIVIDE ON
| TARIFF REVISION?
Significance of Speaker Henderson's
Refusal to Stand for Reflection on
Platform Embodying the Iowa Idea
of Tamperins with the DinaIey Law.

What is known as the Iowa idea has
blossomed and borne fruit. 1t bios
somed at the Republican state conven-
lions of last month in the shape of
resolution which pleads guilty to the
Democratic indictment charging that
the tariff is the mother of trusts by
advocating such notifications of the
tariff are required to prevent mo-
nopo1y from sheltering itself under the
wings of protection. Additional buds
have since appeared in the form of
public statements by the authors of
the platform, Gov. Cummins and Di-
rector of the Mint Roberts, to the eff
feet that the people are being plum
dered by trust extortions and that the
only remedy lies in the introduction
of foreign competition as a means
of breaking down domestic prices.
So much for the blossoming of the
Iowa idea. Now for the fruit 1t APP
pears in the letter from David B. Hen
derson, representative in Congress
of the Third Iowa district and Speaker
of the National House of Representa-
tives, declining the denomination al
ready rendered him by the unanimous
voice of his district the ground that
he cannot consent to make the can
vass on a platform which inf1icts a
vicious stab upon the doctrine of pro-
lection to American labor and in
dustry- Speaker Henderson's letter is
as follows:
| &C A. Albrook, Chairman Notification
Committee, Eldora, Iowa:
MY Dear Sir have never an
| Swered the kind notice communicated
| by you and your associates advising
me of my nomination for the eleventh
| time by reclamation the Repub-
| Hcan candidate for Congress for the
| Third Congressional district of Iowa.
| Reported conditions in the public mind
| in district nI1hIic nO1iPiRS IN
| duced me to make this delay. Since
my return to the district 1 have made
| a careful study of the sentiment in
| the district and state, and 1 believe
| there is little sentiment, and a
| growing sentiment, among Republic
ans, that do not truly represent their
| views on the tariff question Believ-
| ing this condition to exist and know
| ing that l do not agree with many of
| my people that trusts, to which I am
and have been opposed, can be cured
| or the people benefited by free trade,
| in whole or in part, 1 must decline to
| accept the nomination SO generously
| and enthusiastically made. 1 have de-
| voted twenty of the best years of my
| life to the service of my people and
| my country, and L have fought for
| what l believe to be the best for the
/ farmer, the laborer and the business
| interests of this district and state
| am grateful for the devotion that has
| ever been accorded me, and to the
| hour of my death [ will hold in q
| grateful heart the memory of that de
| votion. 1 will give later in some
| detail my views and convictions on
| our conditions and public ques
| lions, and will state my reasons why
| the Republican party and its policies
| should continue in the confidence OF
| the voters of the United States, and
| why the doctrines of the Democracy
CHI ind cd ~ foi
and teachings of the Republican
| party. Very truly yours,
| I'd. B. Henderson,
i Like a bolt from the blue came this
| remarkable letter. 1t was the political
| sensation of the decade. It astonishe ed
people of all parties 1t shocked and
| stunned the leaders and the rank and
file of the Republican party. Joy and
qualification it brought to all Demo
Gratis and free traders; pride and ella
ton it possibly brought to those gen
tlemen of whose progressive ma
| chinations it was the direct conse
| quence; CONSERVATION it undoubtedly
| brought to all who are genuinely de
| voted to Republican principles and
| conscientiously concerned for the
country's best and highest good. To
the President and his group of sena
| torial advisers in confidential conc1ave
! at Oyster Bay the announcement was
| flashed the following urgent message
| to Speaker Henderson:
| Oyster Bay, Sept IT,
Most earnestly ask that you recon
| slider your determination not to run.
Theodore Roosevelt
| J. w Babcock, chairman of the Re
| publican congressional committee
| wired from New York:
Hepburn and Hull are here and al
| enter into our earnest protest against
| action of this kind by you. The Re
| publican party that you have served sc
| long and faithfully cannot part with
| your services now
From an organization which fol-
more than twenty years has been un
| swerving in its devotion to the cause
| of protection and prosperity went for
| ward this earnest appeal:
| New York, Sept II, 1902
| Hon D. B. Henderson, Dubuque, Ia.
I'VE heartily approve position which
| you take in favor of protection, but re
| gret deeply that you should decline