Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
SICK OF HENDERSON.
Iowa Editor Says the Speaker
Would Have Been Beaten.
Says Opposition includes the Very
Flower of Republican Party in
His Distrfct-Predicts Vic
tory for Boies.

A special telegram to the Chicago
Chronicle from Waverly, a. under
date of September II, says thai c. w.
Miller, editor of the Democrat of that
place, who was chairman of the DEM
ocratic congressional convention
which nominated Horace Boies, is of
the opinion that if Speaker Henderson
had remained in the field he would have
been beaten at the polls.
at is true that Mr.. Henderson received a
plurality of more than II 600 two yearsago,"
said MIR. Miller, but no one familiar with
past conditions here will accept that as an
index of his strength at the present time
nor as an indication of the relative
strength of the two great parties either
then or now.
In 1900 the democrats, d~isgruntled and
divided, perhaps more than in any other
district of the state, really permitted the
election to go by default, while the Hem
derson forces put forth as much energy as
If their candidate was in actual danger Of
0efeat-a rule nat they have worked by,
1t may be said in passing, ever since Mr..
Henderson first became the republican can
1idate in this district is years ago.
Criterion in Cummins' Election.
1.-THE result last year, when Gov. Cum
MINIS received less thah 6,Wo MAJORITY
"oula DETER serve 10 lHuIcale tne fepup-
mean majority IN the alstrlct, out even
lhese hgures are too hlgh. GOV.
II should De was the ldol OF
MS own party and haQ' hosts OF democratlc
admlrers besloes, Whlle ms opponent, Phll-
ups, was an obscure man ana haphazard
nominee, whose whole campaign consisted
OF a demohstratlon OF MS unhtness Tor the
posltlon to Whlch he teehly asplred. Aad
TO TINS the tact that the democratic state
convention hao broken up IN disorder Win
Guy even having accepted a declaration OF
principles, save TO emphasize the 10 10 1
tuea' "hlch was never popular IN inns ols"
trlct' ana IL may reaClly De seen that the
democrats We're IN the lowest depths Oh
despair and oAscontent.
II Is sate TO assume That over a thousand
stanch democrats voted Tor
Cumlllhs, "hlle as many more re1ralned
frona ~ va. a. va ~ "a tS
these facts and YOU have hut about 1900 as
the majority that Former CIV Ro;ee will
have To overcome to achieve success. Is
the grand old man equal to this ACCOMPLISH
ment? | saw YES. most emnhatica1lv
vua s u.
sew 4ho e,.4 uloa. e,.L,.
OWN nartv w. 49, y haor+i- s;oL 20
Har = arson Tbev hora Ia = ,,aorsnn fo y
and dinner and supper, year IN
ana year out, I'LL they feel Ike the pdftlcl-
pants IN a qaall-eat1hg contest. rms feel-
ing OF nausea mas oeen ROWING Tor some
Years ana mas now assumed an acute form.
In a word, there Is revolt, and though more
aggravated IN some places than others no
The opposition to Mr. Henderson In bis
own Marty is not lacking IN effective lead
ershin. If consists of the very flower of
the republican partv in this district. Mr..
Henderson gave annie acknowledgment Of
This fact when he ordered the .snan' com
yention at which his last nomination was
made, which was called four months in ad-
vance of the ordinary time Of holding such
conventions In this district, This unseemly
haste was ia head off sfnator COPYRIGHT.
the suggestion of whose candidacy had,met
with The beartiest annrovaI everywhere
r.a c. ~
-" we
Nor are these repubhcan opponents OF
Col. Henderson acklng in Effective argu-
~ ~ a. 'n~s Aa% ~ w.
people of his district, They can show bv his
record that he has been unstable on all
great questions of national import. that he
was first for free silver and then asainstf it;
that he was first against Cuba libre and
then for it; that he was first against the re-
teution Of the PHILIPPINES and then for if.
at must not be inferred, of course, that
these ard other shifts have heen made to
meet the changing sentiment in his Gistrict.
without regard to what may have been the
opinion of hisconstituents, having supreme
t~ol.iluelee that lhey Woulu set lh'o NE
in which he nroposed 70 guide if
'Incomprehensible as it may seem, the
blind allegiance he demanded of his sup
p p9f i i, mas nere hr peen gwen alm1 Se
gulIibiIitV even Of an Iowa repubiican, and
this limit was apparently reached when
Mr. Henderson began to berate and sheer
a ae nh f. ,e asemma tbat VIZ tbe T Ier'ff S SLIPS
and antitrust plank that the astute Mr..
Cummins slipped into the republican plat