Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-17
Not In Line with Liberals ON tha
Tarin Question.
HE GIVES OUT AN ADDREse
Says His Views ON the Tarin ana
Trust Question. Are Not In Accord
With the RepuhlIcan State Plat
form-His Action Causes sens.-
ton in washington All Public
Men Regret hi. Course.


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DUBUQUE. Ia. September 1s.-The
following letter has been addressed to
c. E. Albrook. chairman of the Notifca-
| ton committee. by Speaker Eendersons
My dear sir: have never answered the
| kind notice communicated by you and
your associates. advising me of my norni-
nation for the eleventh time. by accla1na.
| tion, as the Republican candidate acP
| Congress. Third Congressional District OF
Iowa. Reported conditions In the paoiie
mind in my district on public ponctss
have induced ma to make this delay. Stnse
my return to the district I have mado
careful study as to the sentiment In the
district and State, and believe there Is
| no little sentiment. and growing sentt-
ment. among Republicans. that I do not
truly represent their views on the tariff
question.
Believing this condition to exist. and
knowing that do not agree with mauy st
my people that trusts, to which am anS
have been opposed. can be cured. or tfs
people benefited by free trade. in whole
| or in part, must decline to accept Ne
nomination so generously and enthustAs
ticslly made.
IT have devoted twenty of tho best
years of my life to the service Of my peo-
pie and my country, and have fought
for what believe to be best for th<
farmer, the laberer, and the business In
terests of this district and State. I am
grateful for the devotion that has. evsr.
been accorded me and to the hour or ms
death I will hold in a grateful heart
the memory of that devotion. / WIN
give, later on, In some DETAIL my Views
and convictions on our conditions and
on public questions. and will state my res
sons why the Republican party and It's
policies should continue in the oonfdencs
of the voters of the United States, and
why the doctrines of the Democracy
should find no lodgment in the faith and
teachings of the Republican party.
Very truly yours,
ID. B. HENDERSON,
The SpenkerSs Reasons
Speaker Henderson announes6 his with.
drawal after a conference Of several
hours duration with Chairman Glasser.
of the Congressional Committee. and
friends this afternoon. The Speaker has
been contemplating this action for two
weeks, but had intimated nothing of 10
to friends until yesterday. At to-days
conference his friends tmp1ored him not
said that he had made up his mind and
that no argument could cause him to
change his decision. When asked for the
reason for his withdrawaIs Speaker Hem
derson said:
My letter to Chairman Albrook IS the
whole thing in nutshell. You cannot
kill the trusts by applying freq .1uSa
without killing Our own Industries. Yha
foreign trusts are fighting the American
trusts. and do not believe that. for the
purpose of controlling American trusts,
we should make market for forei1n
trusts. thereby crushing out the interests
OF this country. After my conference lasc
Saturday at Waterloo. hearing the viawa
of the chairman of my district, I con-
ton were at variance with those of my
party, and I did not desire to appear in
a false position
Speaker Henderson gave out an adj
dress this evening. which states his yiews
on the tariff and trust questions. and
because these views, in his opinion, are
not IN accord with the State platform.
and WIZ tho opinions OF prominent mem4
bers of mis- party, he declines to acceps
the nomination.
Sensation In WnshinGton.
WAsHINGToN. September 1.-THE
dispatch announcing Speaker Henderson's
QecIlGdllCI oI iHe congressional nominal
ton, caused q sensation in Washington.
Very few public men are in Washington
at this time. bat all here regret that the
Speaker has determined on the course are
Eounced 81 the Dubuque dispatch. The
causes leading UP to hts decision wera
perhaps as much>a matter Of comment as
the refusal to stand for reelection. Pub
tic men acknowledge that there Is de-
mand in sections of the West and North.
west for revision of the tariff along
certain lines. notably in the cases OF az
ticles whose manufacture is controlled bT
the trusts. Their opinion is that General
Henderson's decision will make this issue
more acute The Speaker always has
been a straight-out Republican on tariff
matters. and at the last session OF cor-
gress the general understanding was that
he opposed the suggestions advanced fol
tariff revision along certain lines on ar.
ticles controlled by the trusts
Wilson Thunderstruck.
Secretary Wilson. of the Agricultural
Department. who comes from Iowa. was