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tfIcl OF Iowa. reported conditions In the
public mind in my district upon public
policies induced me to make this delay.
Since my return to the district / have
made careful study as to the sentiment
there is no little sentiment and a grow
ing sentiment, among Republicans, that
l 90 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
ana nave been opposed, can be cured,
must decline to accept the nomination
so generously and enthusiastically made.
l have devoted twenty Of the best years
OF my life to the service Of my people
ana aha+ my country, and I have fought TO- for
farmer the laborer and business interests
OF this district and state. am grateful
for the devotion that has ever been ac-
corded me, and to the hour of my death
l will hold in a grateful heart the men,
Dry Of that devotion
Il will give, later on in some detail,
my views and convictions on our condi-,
lions and on public questions. and will
state my reasor/ why the Republican par
ty and its principles should continue in
me confidence Of the voters of the United
States and why the doctrines of the De-
mocracy should find no Judgement in the
faith and teachings of the Republican par
ty;,
a careful study of conditions and political
views in Iowa and in my own district,
1 am satisfied that 1 am not in har-
mony with great many of the Republic
whole or in part will remedy the trust
evil. l believe that it will not, but that
such remedy is likely to involve the
ne ton in dangerous results and so beliey-
ing feel that l sould not accept the
nomination for congress which has so
generously been rendered me and 1 have
decided accordingly cannot part from
people that / have loved and who have
honored me without leaving an express
sion of my views on this and other ques-
tons. ID. B. Henderson.
Speaker Henderson announced his
withdrawal after conference with
Chairman Glasser of the congressional
committee, and friends this afternoon.
Speaker Henderson has been contem-
plating this action for two weeks, but
had intimated nothing of it to friends
until yesterday.
At todays conference his friends i'm
plored him not to take the action, but
to no avail. He said he had made up
his mind and no argument could cause
him to change his decision. When
asked for his reasons for his with
drawal Speaker Henderson said:
MY letter to Chairman Albrook is
the whole thing in a nutshell. You cam
not kill the trusts by applying free
trade without killing our own indus
tries. The foreign trusts are fighting
the American trusts, and 1 do not be-
lleve that for the purpose Of controlling
American trusts we should make a
market for foreign trusts, thereby
crushing out the industries of this
country. After my conference last Sat-
urday at Waterloo, hearing the views
of chairmen of my district conclud-
ed that my views on the tariff question
| were at variance with those of many
of my party, and I did not desire to
appear in a false position
Speaker Henderson gave out an adj
| dress this afternoon which states his
| views on the tariff and trust questions,
and saying that because these views,
in his opinion, are not in accord with
| views of prominent men of his party
he declines to accept the nomination.
| The address states that he is a Re-
| publican and protectionist, and if he
| ever entertained doubt as to the wis
| dom of the protective policy a hasty
| comparison between the present and
| past would blot out such doubt. He
! then speaks with satisfaction of the
| tariff planks of the last two national
| platforms. He 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 power
| to treat them. l am glad to see
| from speeches made by our fearless
| and peerless chief advocate that he is
| advocating control over these corpora
| tons, and while in some quarters they
may sheer at 1t have not seen any
| proposition yet except this that seems
| at all likely to bring relief. No prop
| osition has ever been made by 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 cure it.
| "They propose to slaughter every
| interest in the United States, whether
capital or labor, in a wild and blind
| effort to provide remedy for trusts
| be regulated and controlled we would
have very little demand for changes
| in the tariff laws. To show how
| strongly the Republican party feels
| upon the subject in it's state platform
| this year, it declares in favor of any
modification of the tariff that may be
| required to prevent affording shelter
| to monopoly.
"Our Democratic friends treat this
as moving into free trade grounds. II
| is nothing of the sort. 1t is bold
| declaration that if notifications of the
tariff are required to prevent monopoly
| from sheltering itself under the wings
| of protection, the tariff shall be mod
| flied to prevent that protection. Fol
/ my part, if any great interest in this
/ country is prospecting through protec-
| tive policies or any other legislation
and is using it's advantages, growth
and prosperity to plumber the Ameri-
| can people, for one am ready to strike
it by whatever legal means we may
be able to adopt, provided that in SC
doing we do not hurt innocent inter-
| eSts.
II am not prepared to say I would
! be willing to strike down and destroy
| American combinations and let foreign
| combinations come in and do the work
| but l would like to control our own
| corporations so that there could be fair
| play among the American people.
| have been more amused than hurt al
1 the suggestions that I have been
against any changes in the tariff. While
| I have been against general revision
| recognizing the wisdom of President
Roosevelt in his first message to con-
gress in which he advised against it.
/ I have never been opposed to making
| needed changes and / am not now.
| must say, and emphatically, that l dc
! not believe that a single schedule OF
the Dingley tariff law can be so amend
| ed as to relieve the people from the
oppression Of trusts or combination OF
| capital however named, and such ac-
ton may mean the retarding of ou1
| expanding commerce and getting and
| holding Of foreign markets. Indeed,
| believe such plan to be fraught with
| grave dangers to the people.
Il am firm believer in reciprocity
worked with untiring zeal to secure
| reciprocal arrangements between Cuba
and this country and was successful
| in passing it through the house. The
| senate did not act on the bill because
| consideration Of it would have opened
| up the whole question of tariff revision
| 1 have nothing to say about the ratifi-
| cation of treaties, but the reciprocal
relations upon which 1t legislated in
respect to Cuba were not In the nature