The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-27
HAVE It IN FOR
HENDERSON D
His Tariff Position Not Likep
in Iowa.
NEW CANDIDATE, TALK
NEW CANDIDATE TALK
Radical Change in Front Attributed
to the Speaker.
WESTERN INTERESTS FORGOTTEN
His Reply to n Petition for Reduc'
items Causes afStir in His
.1.- District.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal
Waterloo, Iowa, Jan. 27.-The position
taken by Speaker David B. Henderson in
his letter to the republican business men
of Waterloo and Cedar Falls in response
to their petition asking him to favor
reduction of the tariff by the present con-
gress, is going to be the cause of many
days of work and worry for the congress-
man, if it does not cost him his seat in
the national house.
There is no doubt of the fact that in de-
claring himself opposed to any attempt at
revision of the tariff the speaker has Of
Tended great majority Of the leaders
Of his party, not only in Blackhawk coun-
ty, but throughout every county in his
district. The salve which he attempts to
put on the wounds of his petitioners, by
the statement made in his letter that in
his opinion some revision could be wisely
made, and some schedules reduced, in
stead of tending to act as healing lotion
has had the effect of Increasing the irri-
tation because he follows it up with the
claim that such move would result in
business injury and depression Of in
dustres, because it would make inevitable
the tearing up of the whole tariff system.
Believe as Does Babcock.
Leading Waterloo republicans in discus
sing the letter from their representative
say that he has taken entirely the wrong
view of the matter. They approve what
Colonel Henderson says about the good
effects of a protective tariff and say they
they do not ask for ANY general tearing
up of the present law, but only for a
change in a few schedules which have
proven hardship to the country. They
refer specifically to" the steel schedule
which has made possible and profitable
the great steel trust with it's absolute
hold on the market. On this question
these republicans, western men who have
remained with the republican party in all
its battles for years, who De4ieve inn
plicitly, with the faith instilled by con-
slant worship at the Iowa shrine of the
organization, in all it's general principles
Of government, are standing firmly on
the policy outlined by Congressman Bah
cock in his recently introduced bill in
congress.
They declare that in previous campaigns
where the tariff has been an Issue the
cry Of the party leaders has been, Let
the friends of the policy correct it's in
equalities where they exist They say
the party is fully pledged by it's orators
and it's platforms in many campaigns to
has been found no longer necessary to up
hold the high rates of the Dingley bill.
They say further that the party to be
honest with itself should at least make
an attempt to correct abuses which all
now acknowledge exist in the present
schedule, and that the representatives of
the republican party in congress cannot
bind it to the weak policy of fear which
Speaker Henderson has outlined.
Losing Faith in Henderson,.
These some of the things the repub-
licans in this section of Iowa are talking
now. And they are going farther even
than this. Many are bitter in denuncia-
ton of Colonel Henderson and are aver
ring that he is no longer representative
of his home congressional district, or OF
the west, but that he is under the con-
troll of the high tax barons of the east.
AS an evidence Of this last statement.
they point to the fact that in years gone
by Colonel Henderson has been proud to
be known as the western congressman,
who, above all others, kept his ear close
to the ground and was quick to hear and
glad to consult with his constituents, and
use his best efforts to represent their
wishes in all questions before congress.
One of the signers of the petition, a lead
ing republican and prosperous business
| man, said:
Speaker Henderson no longer belongs to the
third congressional district of Iowa or to the
west He did belong to us until he was
elected speaker of the house. Before he was
chosen to that position you will remember
the cry was raised by the eastern high tariff
kings that his elevation would result il
tumult for the party, that the west was op.
posed Of the present tariff law and that he
would stand as the exponent of this section
/ of the country. The cry was in the mair
correct. The west was opposed to tariff fol-
tariffs sake, and believed in Speaker Hen
| derson it would have a champion for it,
cause. But suddenly this agitation ceased
! the eastern congressman withdrew their op
position to the Iowa man and he was elected
From that day you can count his slipping
l
! was elected to represent.
Other republicans are talking In the
| same strain. There Is no doubt that they
actually believe these statements an6
! that they are coming to believe they are
not represented in congress. AS to the
petition which was sent to Speaker Hen.
| derson from this county. it counted among
| its signers bankers, wholesalers, retail
merchants, manufacturers, lawyers AM
newspaper men. Everyone of the count.
J officials signed it, and it also bore tn,
/ names of the editors OF three republican
papers, two of them daily publications a
Waterloo and one at Cedar Falls.
Lack n Leader.
So far all Of the opposition to Speaker
Henderson has been mere talk Will,
he is denounced as not only misrepresent
| ing the sentiment Of his district, but a
! utterly ignoring the tariff revision dec
laration of the last republican state plat
form, and while the hope is expresse
that another republican may be name
next fall as candidate for congress, n
leader has been found to crystalline thi
thought There are several men in tn
i district who have congressional ambitions
Among them is Charles &. Pickett. MI
Pickett is the law partner of Attorne
General Mullan. He is noted as "a bril-
| liant orator and is grand exalted rule
! of the Elks. He will not take the initia
/ tive in move to dethrone Speaker Hen
4 derson, however, and no one else seem
i willing TO make the test Of strenntl1