Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-09-18
he REFUSES TO RUN.
Speaker Henderson Declines 1 Re.
nomination 10 Congress-
TRUSTS and The TARIFF TIE CAUSE


the News Gossip ~ to Who
VIII He Speaker.
Dubuque, Ia, Sept. 17.-Speaker
Henderson. finding that his views in
respect to the treatment OF trusts
by reducing the tariff in whole or in
part are not in accord with the
views Of many of his party in Iowa,
yesterday declined to accept the
nomination for congress and has
withdrawn from the race. He an
nounced his withdrawal after a con-
ference Of several hours duration
with Chairman Chaser, Of the con-
gressional committee, and friends
yesterday afternoon. He has been
contemplating this action for two
weeks, but had intimated nothing OF
it to his friends until yesterday. At
Yesterdays conference his friends
lmplored 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 de-
dsion. When asked for his reasons
tor his withdrawal he said:
"You cannot kill the trusts by ap-
plying free trade without killing our
own industries. The foreign trusts
are fighting the American trusts and
| I do not believe that, for the purpose
Of controlling American trusts. we
should make a market for foreign
trusts, thereby crushing out the in
iustries Of this country. After my
conference last Saturday at Water
loo, hearing the views of the chair
man of my district, I concluded that
my views on the tariff question were
1t, variance with those Of many Of
my party, and I did not desire to ap-
pear in false position"
Speaker Henderson gave out an
address yesterday evening which
stated his views on the tariff and
trust questions and because these
views, in his opinion, are not in &C.
cord with the state platform and
with the opinions Of prominent mem
bers of his party, he declines to &C.
cept the nomination. The address
says, being republican, he is a pro-
tectionist, and if he ever entertained
doubt as to the wisdom OF a pro-
tective policy hasty comparison
between the present and the past
would blot out such doubt. Con-
tinuing, 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
upright chief executive that ne is
advocating fedesal control over these
corporations and, while in some
quarters they may sheer at 1t, l
have not seen any proposition yet,
except this, that seems at all likely
to bring relief. No proposition has
ever been made by the democracy
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. They propose to slaugh-
ter every interest in the United
States, whether capital or labor, in
n wild and blind effort to provide a
remedy for trusts. In my opinion,
If combinations could be regulated
and controlled we would have very
little demand for changes in the tar
if laws"
How Washington Received the News.
Washington, Sept. 1.-THE DIS
patch announcing Speaker Hender-
sons declination of the congression-
nj nomination caused a sensation In
Washington. Public men acknowl-
edge that there is demand in sec
tons of the west and northwest for
revision of the tariff along certain
lines, notably in the cases OF artl-
Giles the manufacture of which is
controlled by the trusts. Their opin-
ion is that Gen. Henderson's decision
will make this issue more acute, and
It is suggested that the president Is
comforting at this time with leading
senat, s from the east and west, pre-
sumably on the very question which
has forced Gen. Henderson out OF
line with his party in Iowa.
In view Of Gen. Henderson's de-
termination, some gossip was in
Obliged in as to his successor as
speaker in the event of republican
success at the polls in November.
Representative Cannon, of Illinois,
no doubt will be a candidate for the
position, with a strong competitor In
Representative Sherman, OF New
York. Messrs. Grosvenor, OF Ohio,
and Littlefeld, of Maine, also are
mentioned as among those who may
be forced to the front by their
friends in the speakership contest,
although most public men thought
a;tber Cannon or Mr.. Sherman the