Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-09-20
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HENDERSON MAKES A SENSATION.
Speaker of the House Declines
Unanimous Nomination.


the refusal Of Speaker Henderson to
accept the unanimous nomination for
congress rendered to him recently by
the Republicans of the Third Iowa dis
trict. His action is dictated by the fact
that his party has gotten away from
him on the trust question. Many Iowa
Republicans think that free trade in
trust controlled goods Is the proper ex-
pedient for suppressing the trusts, and
General Henderson Is Of opinion that
the application Of such a policy will
prove the commercial and industrial
undoing Of the United States. The
Republicans of his district, some two
weeks ago, rendered him unanimous
nomination. That was after the state
convention had expressed itself on the
trust question. He waited until last
| Tuesday before making his reply, and
when it was found that he had declined
the nomination, the entire Republican
party was astonished. The letter In
which he gave his reasons for refusing
the nomination, Is addressed to G. E.
Albrook, chairman Of the notification
committee Of his district. and reads as
follows:
"My Dear Sir: have never answered
the kind notice communicated by you
and your associates advising me Of my
nomination for the eleventh time by
reclamation as the Republican candi-
date for congress for the Third con-
gressional district Of Iowa. Reported
conditions in the public mind in my
district upon policies induced to make
this delay.
"Since my return to the district I
have made a careful study as to the
sentiment in the district and state, and
I believe there is no little sentiment,
and a growing sentiment among Re-
publicans, that I do not truly represent
their views on the tariff question. Be-
lieving this condition to exist and
knowing that I do not agree with many
of my people that trusts, to which l
am, and have been opposed, can be
cured, or the people benefited by free
trade, in whole or in part, must de-
cline 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 bus
mess interests of this district and the
state. I am grateful for the devotion
that has ever been accorded me and to
the hour of my death I will hold In
grateful heart the memory Of that de-
votion. I will give, later on, in some
detail, my views and convictions on
our conditions and public questions,
and will state my reasons why the Re-
publican pal = 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
lodcment in the faith and teachings Of
the Republican party.
Every truly yours,
(Signed) I'D. B. HENDERSON"
Discussing the matter further Gene
raj Henderson made the following
statement:
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 chief executive that he is advoca-
ting Federal control over these corpor-
ations and while in some quarters they
NAV sneer at it, I have not seen any
proposition vet, except this, that seems
at all likely to bring relief. No propo-
sition has ever been made by the De-
mocracy excepting to put everything on
the free list and to give the country
free trade. In other words, they pro-
pose to kill the child dead in order to
cure it. In my opinion, if combinations
could be regulated and controlled, we
would have very little ground for
changes in the tariff laws. For my
part, if any great interest in this coun-
try is for prosperity through protective
policies or any other legislation and Is
using it's advantages, growth and pros
perity to plunder the American people,
I, for one, am ready to strike it by
whatever legal means we may be able
to adopt provided that in so doing, we
do not hurt innocent interests. 1 have
been more amused than hurt at the
suggestions that l have been against
any changes in the tariff. I have never
been opposed to making needed changes
and am not now. l must say, and en-
phatically, that I do not believe that a
single schedule of the Dingley tariff
law can be so amended as to relieve
the people from the oppression Of trusts
or combinations of capital, however
named, and that such action may in
volve the retarding of our expanding
commerce and getting and holding for
eign markets. Indeed, I believe such
plan to be fraught with grave dan
gers to the people. I am firm be-
lever in reciprocity. I worked with
untiring zeal to secure reciprocal ar
rangements between Cuba and this
country and I was successful in pass
ing it through the house. The senate
did not act on the measure because con-
sideration of it would have permitted
the opening of the whole question of
tariff revision. While I cannot speak
for the prospects Of favorable action
upon bills sent to the senate, I still
hope and believe that by treaty the
same result may be accomplished, and
/ have no doubt that President Roose-
Welt is now working on the question OF
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