The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-17
Views in Regard to Trusts Do Not Agree With His
 Constituents
POSITIVELY REFUSES ID
 CHANGE HIS DECISION
Issues Address to Party In Which He Says He Is Opposed to Putting Country In Danger By
 Tariff Revision.

Dubuque. Ia., September 16-speaker Henderson of the house of representa- tives finding that his views in respect to the treatment of trusts by reducing the tariff in whole or part, are not in accord with the views of his party in command in Iowa, today declined to accept the nomination for congress and has with drawn from the race.
 The following letter was addressed to c, E. Albrook, chairman of the notifica- tion committee, Eldorado, la, by MT. Henderson,:
 My Dear Sir: I have never answered the kind notice communicated by you and your associates advising me of my nomi- nation for the eleventh time by acclama- tion, as the republican candidate for con- gress for the third congressional district of Iowa Reported conditions in the pub lie mind in my district upon public poli- cies, induced me to make this delay. Since my return to the district I have made careful study as to the sentiment in the district and state and I believe there is no little sentiment and grow
 
 I do not truly represent their views on the tariff question. Believing this condi- ton to exist, and knowing that I do not agree with many of my people that trusts to which I am and have been opposed, can be cured, or the people benefited by free trade, in whole or in part, I must decline to accept the nomination so gen. erously and enthusiastically made
 T have devoted twenty of the best years of my life to the service of my people and my country, and I have fought for what I believed to be best for the farmer, the laborer and the business interests of this district and state. I am grateful for the devotion that has ever been accorded me and to the hour of my death I will hold in a grateful heart the memory of that devotion. I 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 republi- can party and it's policies should con- tinue in the confidence of the voters of the United States, and why the doctrines of the democracy should find no lodge ment in the faith and teachings of the republican party Very truly yours,
 "D. B. HENDERSON,"
 TIC lS OChCTIIIitiCus
 Speaker Henderson announced his with drawal after a conference of several hours with Chairman Chaser of the con- eressional committee and several friends this afternoon. He had been contemplat ing this action for two weeks but had intimated nothing of 1t to friends until yesterday. At today's conference his friends implored him not to take the ac- ton, but 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 withdrawal Speaker Henderson said:
 My letter to Chairman Albrook is the whole thing in a nut shell.
 You cannot kill the trusts by applying free trade without killing our own indus tries. The foreign trusts are fighting the American trusts, and don't believe that for the purpose of controlling American trusts, we should make mar ket for foreign trusts, thereby crushing out the industries of this country. After my conference last Saturday at Waterloo and after hearing the views of the chair man of my district. I concluded that my views on the tariff question were at vari- ance with those of many of my party, and I did not desire to appear in a false position."
 Issues an Address.
 Speaker Henderson gave out an address 
 the tariff and trust questions, and be- cause the views, in his opinion, are not In accord with the state platform and with the opinions of prominent members of his party, he declines to accept the nomination The address is ITO the re- publican voters of the third Iowa dis trict." He says, being a republican, he Is a protectionist and if he ever enter tained a doubt as to the wisdom of a pro tective policy a nasty comparison be- tween the present and the past would blot out such doubt. He then speaks with satisfaction of the tariff blanks of the last two national platforms
 Continuing, 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. I am glad to see from speeches made by our fearless and up- right executive that he is advocating fe6- eral control over these corporations, and while in some quarters they may sheer at it, I have not seen any proposition yet, except this, that seems at all like ly to bring relief. No proposition has ever been made by the democracy ex- cepting to put everything on the free list and to give the country free trade In other words, they propose to kin the child in order to cure it.
 Hard on Democrats. ''They propose to slaughter every in- terest in the United States whether cap ital or labor in a wild blind effort to pro- vide remedy for trusts. In my opinion, if combinations could be regulated and controlled we would have very little de- mand for changes in the tariff laws. To show how strongly the republican party feels upon the subject, in it's state plat from this year, the Iowa convention de- clared in favor of any modification of the tariff that may be required to pre- vent affording shelter to monopoly Our democratic friends treat this as moving into free trade grounds. It is nothing of the sort It is boldly de- clared that if modification of the tariff are required to prevent monopoly from sheltering itself under the wings of pro- lection. then tariff shall be modified to