The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1902-09-26
WOE. Xxx VII.
rIIs j C,LINEs.
Speaker Henderson Creates Political
s!5 s = Surprise. by IS.
I ]. REFUSING THE NOMINATION

TO stand as the Exponent #
OF His Party in His
b District.
sas,s dispatch from Dubuque, Iowa,
(. says Speaker Henderson, finding that
& his views IN respect to the treatment
S%,of trusts by reducing the tariff In
$2s whole orin part, are not In accord
with the views or many Of his party in
Iowa, has declined to accept the nom
tnation for congress and has with
drawn from the race in Ills state
nent, Speaker Henderson, says:
For three years I have advocated
giving control Of trusts to congress,
In my Judgment, proper supervision
can never be had until congress has
4 power to treat them. / am glad to see
\ from speeches made by our fearless
and upright chief executive, that he
\. Is advocating federal control over these
X corporations, and while in some quar-
Cers they may sneer at It,, l have not
seen any proposition yet, except this,
that seems at all likely to bring relief.
No prOpOsi tiOn has ever been made by
4 the Democracy excepting to put every
thing on the free list and to give the
. country free trade. In other words,
they propose to kill the child dead In
order to secure it..
In my opinion, II combinations
could be regulated and controlled, we
would have very little ground for
y charges before a change In the tariff
laws. For my part, If anything great
In this country attains prosperity
through protective policies or any
other legislation and is using it's adj
vantages, 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
provided that in SO doing, We do not
hurt Innocent interests. / have been
4. more amused than hurt at tho suggcs-
tion that have been against any
changes in the tariff.
II have never been opposed to MAX
Z Ing needed changes, and l am not
H now. must say and emphatically,
that I do not believe that single
schedule OF the Dinglcy tariff law can
be SO amended as to relieve the people
from the oppression OF trusts or com
and that such action may involve the
rctardlng of our expanding commerce
and getting and holding OF foreign
markets. Indeed, believe such plan
ito be froughb with grave dangers to
reciprocity worked with untirlng
zeal to secure reciprocal arrangements
K bUbWeen iCuDIand this country, and l
was successful in passing it thl Ugh
the house. The senate did not act on
38t the bill because consideration OF j.
would have permitted the opening up
of tho whole question OF tariff rcvis-
ion.
While ! cannot speak for the pros
pccts Of favorable action upon bills
sent to the senate still hope and be-
lieye that by a treaty the same result
may be accomplished, and | have no
doubt that President Roosevelt is now
working on the question OF treaty
with Cuba, to give that STRUGGLING
young republic needed help, help
4 too, In which, while they will be gain
ers we will not be losers. And now,
let me say, and let there be no misun-
derstanding as to my position: I be-
lieye IN protection that will protect
the hand of labor, the wheels Of indus
try, every farmer and mineral am
against wicked corporations that would
trample on the rights Of the people to
fair play and to the fruits Of honest
efforts. / ain against unnecessary leg
islation that would throw my country
into panic and bring back the horrors
bequcathed to us by tho last Demo
cratic administration.
Speaker Henderson announced his
withdrawal after a conference of sew
eral hours duration with Chairman
Glasscr Of the congressional commit
tee and friends this afternoon. Speak
er Henderson has been contemplating
this action for two weeks but had in
timatcd nothing of it to friends until
yesterday. At tolay's conference his
friends implOrcd him not to take the
X action, but to no avail. He said he
Z had made up his mind and no argu-
1nent could cause him TO change lis
decision.
STATES Ills REASONS
When asked for his reasons for his
withdrawal, Speaker Henderson said:
My letter to Chairman Albrook is
tho whole thing in nutshell You
@ cannot kill the trusts by applying free
trade Without killing our own indus
tries. Tho foreign trusts are fighting
4 the American trusts, and 1 do not be-
. libve that, forth purpose Of controll-
ling American tTusts we should make
s a market for foreign trusts, thereby
&. crushing out thS>s Industries Of this
country. After my conference last
Saturday at Waterloo, hearing views
Of the chairman OF my district, con-
cluded that my views on the tariff
question were at variance with those
n Of many OF my party, and did not
desire to appear in false position"
~: Speaker Henderson gave out an ad-
dress this evening which states his
views on the tariff and trust question,
and because these views, IN his opin-
ion, are not in accord with the State
1 platform and with the opinions Of
prominent members OF his party, he
declined to accept the nomination.
WILL NOT RECONSIDER.
Speaker Henderson is positive in his