The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-09-26
SICK OF HENDERSON.
iowa Editor Says the Speaker
Would Have Been Beaten.
says Opposition includes the Very
Flower OF Republican Party in
His Districf-Predicts Vic
tory for Boies.


Chronicle from Waverly, Ia, under
date of September IL, says that c. w.
Miller, editor of the Democrat of that
place, who was chairman of the dem
ocratic congressional convention
which nominated Horace Boies, is of
the opinion that if Speaker Henderson
had remained in the field he would have
been beaten at the polls.
"It is true that Mr.. Henderson received
plurality of more than Il. 900 two years ago."
said Mr.. Miller, but one familiar with
past conditions here will accept that
index of his strength at the present time
nor indication of the relative
strength of the two great parties either
then or now.
I'm 1900 the democrats, disgruntled and
divided, perhaps more than in any other
district of the state, really permitted the
election to go by default, while the Hen
derson forces put forth as much energy as
if their candidate was in actual danger Of
0efeat-a rule that they have worked by,
it may be said in passing, ever since Mr..
Henderson first became the republican can
didate in this district is years ago.
Criterion in Cummins' Election.
1.-THE result last year, when Gov Cum
minis received less than 5000 majority,
would better serve to indicate the repub-
lican majority in the district, but even
it should be remembered, was the idol of
his own party and had hosts of democratic
admirers besides, while his opponent, Phil
lips, was an obscure man and haphaZard
nominee, whose whole campaign consisted
of a demonstration of his unfitness for the
position to which he feebly aspired. Add
to this the fact that the democratic state
convention had broken up in disorder with
out even having adopted a declaration of
principles, save to emphasize the l6 to 1
iGe4 UCh rlor TN
trict, and * may readily be seen that the
democrats were in the lowest depths of
despair and discomfort.
1T is safe to assume that over a thousand
ordinarily stanch democrats voted for
Cummins, while many more refrained
from voting at all. Make the deductions
from the republican majority contained in
these facts and you have but about 5000 as
the majority that Former Gov. Boies will
have to overcome to achieve success. Is
the grand old man equal to this accomplish
ment? L say yes, most emphatically.
Voters Sick of Henderson.
I'm the first place, the rank and file of his
own party were and are heartily sick of
Henderson. They have had Henderson for
breakfast and dinner and supper, year in
and year out, till they feel like the partici-
pants in a quail-eating contest. This feel
ing of nausea has been growing for some
years and has now assumed an acute form
In word, there is revolt, and though more
aggravated in some places than others no
part of his district is free from it.
THE opposition to Mr.. Henderson in his
own party is not lacking in effective Lead
ership. 1t consists of the very flower of
the republican party in this district. Mr.
Henderson gave ample acknowledgment of
this fact when he ordered the snap con-
venton at which his last nomination was
made, which was called four months in ad-
vance of the ordinary time of holding such
conventions in this district. This unseemly
haste was to head off Senator COPYRIGHT,
the suggestion of whose candidacy hadlmet
with the heartiest approval everywhere.
Unstable on Great Issues.
Nor are these republican opponents of
Col. Henderson lacking in effective argu-
ments to prove that he never has represent
ed and does not now properly represent the
people of his district. They can show by his
record that he has been unstable all
great questions of national import; that he
was first for free silver and then against1t;
that he was first against Cuba libre and
then for it; that he was first against the re-
tention of the Philippines and then for 1t.
at must not be inferred, of course, that
these and other shifts have been made to
meet the changing sentiment in his district.
Quite the contrary. He has Topped around
without regard to what may have been the
opinion of his constituents having supreme
confidence that they would get into the
band wagon and hurrah regardless of the
'Incomprehensible as it may seem, the
blind allegiance he demanded of his sup
porters has heretofore been given almost
without protest, but there is limit to the
gullibility even of an Iowa republican, and
this limit was apparently reached when
Mr.. Henderson began to berate and sheer
a those republicans who were simple
enough to assume that the tariff reform
and antitrust plank that the astute Mr.
Cummins slipped into the republican plat
far o. dor d or1iJ Los
1t said.
Call Him Tariff Trust Tool.
That afforded his enemies the opening
they had long been looking for, and they
were not slow to take advantage of it.
They stand upon the platform, they say.
He does not. Therefore they oppose him
consistently and without the sacrifice of
party principle on their part. Moreover,
they are making out a damaging case
against him by claiming that his opposi-
ton to the platform Is a confession that he
is a tool of the tariff protected trusts,
through whose favor he was elected.
Another thing Mr.. Henderson had to
contend with is a horde of disappointed of
fee seekers. The offices of the district
seem generally to have gone to the wrong
men. Time was when Mr.. Henderson, like
the hero of a song that did service on the
vaudeville stage last year, could turn down
an Office seeker so politely that the sting
of defeat was easily alloyed, but of late he
has lost this knack entirely. AS a conse-
Quence, the disappointed ones, generally
men of influence and standing in their re-
spective communities, are all knocking
instead of holding the Henderson bag as
they have done in times past.
Still another thing that worried Mr.
Henderson is the prohibitionists who have
an active and brilliant candidate in the
field in the person of Rev. Mr.. Earl, of
Waterloo.
In he
''Mr Boies is still Iowa's foremost states
man-earnest, honest. fearless and fair;
without guile, without conceit and without
ambition, save to serve his party and his