The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-02
HENDERSON CUTS BIRDsALL.
Refuses to Take Stump to Help Sub
 stitute Candidate.

Dubuque, la, Special 10 Chicago Chron-
 iCle.
 Speaker Henderson has declined abso- lutely to take to the stump Tor Juose gTess Ivy the Republicans when Colonel Henderson withdrew from the ticket. Publicly he says this IS because he IS out of politics. Privately he has said tnat ne has been snubbed, If not insuled. oy birG, t., sail and politicians have no dimculty Tn believing that his refusal to help Birdsail with campaign speeches is the salve ne IS applying to his wounded feelings.
 Whom Judge Birdsall was nominated at Hampton Sept. 25 Speaker Henderson sent him a congratulatory telegram and later followed it with letter expressing hearty approval of the action Of the con vention ard god wishes for the success of its candidate. He has not received from Judge Birdsall even so much as a formal acknowledgement of either of these
 Sneaker Henderson will remain here un- til after election day. This being known, a request was sent to him to make two Or thu ee addresses. It was thought his pres ence of the stump would bring out many votes for the ticket from his friends. who have been remarkably silent since his retirement from the field
 But in reply to the messages sent him the speaker informed his friends that he could not enter the campaign and in a letter to one of the he told of the man ner in which he had been ignored by Judge Birdsall. He did not say in so many words that this was the cause for his declining to make speeches merely adhering to his declaration of Sept. Is that he had determined to quit politics, but 1t is evident the slight shown him has been felt keenly.
 This incident in a campaign which oth- erwise has been lifeless, when compared with the whirlwind triumphant marches Speaker Henderson was wont to make t,-tn out ole "a fact that two fastions still exist in the Republican Party in this district and that Judge Birdsall has considered it the part of political>wisdom to refrain from recog- milton of the Henderson faction even by so polite an act as the answering of a congratulatory message from it's leader.
 The Republicans say Boies will carry but two counties in the district, Du- buque with 1000 majority and Bremen with a lead of 5O0 making his total ma jority 2,50O. To offset this, they say. will be needed only the majorities which Bird sal will receive in the counties of Della ware, Buchanan and Black Hawk. The candidates thus would go to the four western counties of the district-Butler Franklin, Hardin and Wright-on even terms These are all Republican strong holds and are relied on to give Birdsall 1000 or more majority. The maJorities in these four counties are set down in the Republican vote of estimates as follows: Butler, 300; Franklin, 1000; Hardin, HOO; Wright 2,00O.
 The Democratic Committee is inclined to regard these figuTes in the light of claiming everything to make showing. The Democratic figures not Onlykdisco all the claims made by the Republicans, but annihilate them and give the district to Mir Boeis by lead of 600, which, they say, may grow to 1000 or more. The Democrats claim majorities in three coun- ties for Boies-Dubuque, 4,0O0: Bremen, 500: Buchanan, 300. This is coming to the central counties of the district with 5,10O majority. They allow Birdsall a lead of 500 in Black Hawk. 800 in Delaware, 300 in Hardin, 900 in Franklin and 12Oo in Wright, a total of 4,5O0.