Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-09-18
SPEAKER HENDERSON
is OUT OF THE RACE
Refuses to Accept a Renomi-
nation For Congress.
HE REFUSES TO RECONSIDER.

TIE hEF OSES " hECONSlOEFts
1t Is Generally Believed That the Res.
ignation Means a Crisis In the At,
fairs of the Republican Party, Espe.
ciaIly In West.
Des Moines, Sept 17-Spealler Hen.
derson refuses to reconsider his with.
drawal from the congressional race
In the third district The following
Geographic reply was received today
in response to a request to reconsider
his action
Dubuque Iowa, Sept. 16.-Messrs.
LATE Young and s. w. Rathbun, Des
Moines, Iowa Your joint telegram
sincerely appreciated, but cannot re-
consider, for after an age spent in
fighting for my country, state and dis.
trict, cannot acquiesce in administer
ing free trade poison to cure the trust
evil which | abhor. (Signed) D. B.
Henderson"
Speaker Henderson announced his
withdrawal after a conference of sew
eral hours with Chairman Chaser, OF
the congressional committee, and sew.
eral friends yesterday afternoon. He
had been contemplating this action
for two weeks. but had intimated nnth.
ing of it to friends until yesterday. At
the conference his friends implored
him not to take the action, but he said
he had made up his mind and no a.
gument could cause him to change his
decision. When asked for his rea-
sons for his withdrawal, Speaker Hen
derson said:
MY letter to Chairman Albrook IS
the whole thing in a nutshell. You
cannot kill the trusts by applying free
trade without killing our own indus
tries. The foreign trusts are fight.
Ing the American trusts and | don't
believe that, for the purpose of con-
trolling American trusts, we should
make a market 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 chairman of
my district, concluded that my views
on the tariff question was at variance
with those of many of my party, and
did not desire to appear in false
position"
The following is Speaker Hender.
sons letter to C. e. Albrook:
MY Dear Sir: have never an
swered the kind notice communicated
by you and your associates advising
me of my nomination for the eleventh
Enthusiastically made.
an candidate Ior congress for the third
congressional district of Iowa. Re
ported conditions in the public mind
in my district upon public policies in.
duced me to make this delay.
p-nce my return to the district |
have made careful study as to the
sentiment in the district and state
and I believe there is no little sentl-
ment, and a growing sentiment, among
Republicans that do not truly repre-
sent their views on the tariff question.
Believing this condition to exist and
knowing that do not agree with many
of my people that trusts, to which ]
am opposed, can be secured, or the
people benefited by free trade, in Whole
or in part, l must decline to accept
the nomination so generously and en-.
made.
81 have devoted 20 of the best years
of my life to the service of my PEG.
pie and my country, and have fought
for what I believed to be best for the
farmer, the laborer and the business
interests of this district and state. |
am grateful for the devotion that has
ever ben accorded me and to the hour
of my death | will hold in a CRATE.
full heart the memory of that devotion
| will give later on in some detail, my
views and convictions on our condi-
state my reasons why the Republic
an party and it's policies should con
tinue in the confidence of the voters
# the United States and why the doc
trines of the Democracy should find
no Judgment in the faith and teach
ings of the Republican party, Very
truly yours, d. B. Henderson"
1t is generally admitted that the res
ignation means a crisis in the affairs
Of the Republican party over the tar
if and kindred questions. 1t brings
clearly before the public the ebulitlons
that have been stirring the vitals o.
the party. esnecially II the west