Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-17
HENDERSON is OUT.
Declines 10th denomination to
Congress from Iowa.
Feels He Does Not Agree With His
People on the Tariff.
Cannot Side With Them in Belief on
g Free Trade.

a Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 16.-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 accordance with the views
of many of his party in Iowa, has this
day declined to accept the nomination
for Congress and has withdrawn from
the race.
The following letter was addressed
TO c. L. Albrook, chairman of the no
tihcation committee, Eldora, Iowa, by
Mr. Henderson:
My Dear Sir:--I have never an
swered the kind notice communicated
ny you and your associates advising
re of my nomination for the llth
lime by reclamation as the Repubil-
IAN candidate for Congress for the
Sd Congressional district of Iowa. Re
ported conditions in the public MIND
IN my district upon public policies IN
duced me to make this delay.
since my return TO the district
have made a careful study as to the
continent in the district and state and
! believe that there is no little SEN
tinent ana a growing sentiment among
Republicans that | do not truly rep
resent their views on the tariff ques-
ton. Believing this condition to eX-
ist and knowing that | do not agree
with many of my people that trusts
to which I am and have been Opposed.
can be cured, or the people benehtted
by tree trade, in whole or in part,
must decline TO accept the nomination
so generously and enthusiastically
made.
II have devoted 20 of the best years
of my life to the service of my people
and my country and | have fought for
, what | believed to be best for the
farmer the laborer and the business
interests of this district and state.
Il am grateful for the devotion that
has ever been accorded me and to the
hour of my death I will hold in d
grateful heart the memory of deVo-
ton.
Il will give later on, in some detail.
nv views and convictions on our con
ditions and on public questions and
will state my reason why the Repub-
Iican party and its policies should
continue in the confidence of the
voters of the United States and why
the doctrines of the Democracy should
+ lie Republican party.
VERY truly yours,
ID. B. Henderson,
Sneaker Henderson announced his
withdrawal after a conference of sew
eral hours duration with Chairman
Chaser of the congressional committee
when asked for his reasons for his
.vithdrawal. Speaker Henderson said:
My letter TO Chairman Albrook is
the whole thing in nutshell. You
cannot kill the trusts by applying free
trade without killing our own indus
tries The foreign trusts are fighting
VIVA American trusts and | don't be-
lrse tnlt for tine purpose Of controlling
American trusts we should make a
market for foreign trusts, thereby
cushing out the industries of this
ountry.
After my conference, last Saturday
ut Waterloo, hearing the views of the
chairman of ny district | concluded
that my views on the tariff question
were at variance with those of many of
my party, and ] did not desire to APP
pear In a false position"
-p.agtr Henderson gave out an adj
dress which states his views on lH.
tariff and trust questions and bee auau
these views. in his opinion, are not in
accord with the state platform and
with the opinions Of prominent mem
bers of his party. he declines to ac-
cept the nomina ton. The address is
to the Republicans of the third Iowa
district
He says. being n Republican, he is a
proteC ZIONIST and if he ever entertained
a doubt as TO wisdom of protective
policy at hasty comparison between
the present and the past would blot
out such doubt He then speaks with
satisfaction if the tariff pllnks of the
last two national platforms.