St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-09-24
Speaker Henderson Withdraws.

Not for long time has there been such
a sensation in national political circles as
was caused last week when David B.
Henderson, speaker ofthe national house
of representatives, declined a renomina
ton for congress from the third Iowa
district. The following letter addressed
to the chairman of the notification COM
mittee explains Mr.. Henderson's reasons
for withdrawing:
MY Dear Sir: | have never answered
the kind notice communicated by you
and your associates advising me of my
nominat ton for the 18th time by acclama-
ton as the republican candidate for
congress for the third congressional
district of Iowa. Reported conditions
in the public mind in my district upon
| policies induced me to make this delay.
Since my return to the district | have
made careful study asto the sentiment
in the district and state, and | believe
that there is no little sentiment, and a
growing sentiment among republicans
that | do not truly represent their views
on the tariff question. Believing this
condition to exist and knowing that do
not agree with many of my people that
trusts, to which am and have been OPP
posed, can be cured, or the people bene-
fitted by free trade in whole or in part,
l must decline to accept the nomination
so generously and enthusiastically made.
| have devoted twenty of the best years
of my lie to the service of my people and
my country and have fought for what
| 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 a grateful heart the memory of |
that devotion. | will give later on, in |
some detail, my views and convictions |
on our conditions and on public questions,
and will state my reasons why the Re- |
publican party and its policies should |
continue in the confidence of the voters
of the United States, and why the doc
trines of the democracy should find no
Judgment in the faith and teachings of |
the Republican party.
Very truly yours.
D. B. Henderson"
Mr.. Henderson is strong advocate
OF protection and pronounced enemy
Of the trusts but as indicated in his
letter of withdrawal, he does not believe
in the revision Of the tariff as a means
Of settling the trust question. Concern
ng this he has said: you cannot kill the
trusts by applying free Grade without
Killing our own industries. The foreign
trusts are fighting the American trusts,
and / don't believe that, for the purpose
of controlling American trusts, we should
make market for foreign trusts thereby
out the industries of this coun
.ry." Mr.. Henderson's remedy for the
rust evil is congressional control, and
his be has advocated for several years.
In Washington the withdrawal OF
Speaker Henderson has caused much
discussion. The mere fact in itself is not
of great Importance, but the
causes which led to it have made the issue
ot trusts and the tariff more acute by re-
vealing to the public mind in a striking
way, the feeling that pervades great sec
ions of the west and northwest.
Who will succeed Col. Henderson as
speaker in the event ofRepublican success
1t the polls in November is being discuss
ID. If Secretary Of the Navy Moody had
emained in the house the honor would
have fallen to him, but with
him out OF the question the names most !
prominently mentioned are those of
Representatives Cannon OF Illinois.
3rosvenor OF Ohio, Sherman of New
York and Little6eld OF Maine.