Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-25
10 OPPOSE HENDERSON
State Senator COPYRIGHT Will
Seek Nomination for Con.
gress in Third District.
First Opposition for Henderson
Since the Third District
Was Created.
New Candidates Friends Prom.
Use to Make Hard Fight
for Him.
,ecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Waterloo, March 25.-The waterloo
Daily Courier announces Senator y. b.
lcourtrisht as a candidate for congress
in opposition to Speaker HENDERSON
| The Courier says:
"Hon. o. B. COPYRIGHT of Waterloo
will be a candidate for the Third as
trict republican nomination ior con-
gress. He will be put forth for the
honor by the republicans OF black
hawk county. and his friends VIII MAKE
La fight for him from now untli aleei
tho convention Is held and he is either
nominated or defeated. For tne liS.
time since the present congressloiiai
district was created, in 1882, twenty
years ago, Col. Henderson OF Dupuque
will have opposition in the COMPRESSION
al convention. For twenty years, ever
since Dubuque county was mace part
of the congressional district, the pro-
gram has been for the delegates 70
meet. unanimously nominate COZ. heh-
derson, adopt strong and laudatory res
olutions and adjourn. Never mas an
other name been mentioned III eleii
conventions, and with only one OF Two
exceptions, never has any republican IN
the district even whispered or Oppose
ton to the Dubuque statesman. Soi.
Henderson has grown in the natlonal
house from an unknown member, pS
successive stages, to one of the most
nopular congressman personally; then
to advancement to places on important
committees; then to the acknowledged
leadership in the house, and then TO the
speakership of the greatest legislative
body in the world. The republicans
who, by announcing Senator Courtrlght
today, declare their opposition 70
Speaker Henderson, say they nave Ioi-
lowed the congressman with PRIDE thru
all the successive advancements; that
they have voted for him year after year,
have worked for him and have given OF
their means to forward his ambitions.
They say they have done this without
hope of reward, and that they nave al
WAYS dweat with satisfaction on Hen
derson's success, until recently. Now,
they hold, he is no longer In accord
with his constituents. They declare
he has written letters which plainly
Indicate he does not agree with the
sentiment of the great majority OF the
republican party of the district. one
Of these letters, they assert. was Writ
ten to Waterloo in response to petit
ton from the business men of this city
and Cedar Falls, asking Speaker Hen
| LIT fr,Hn
modification of the tariff schedule on
steel The speakers reply to this letter.
they declare, placed him in posluon
directly opposed to the great west.
Then they note his letter to Mr.. Funk
of Iowa Falls, in which 1T Is held the
speaker put himself on record as OPP
posed to Cuban reciprocity, thing all
the republicans of this district favored
But these republicans acknowledge that
Mr.. Henderson is now in line on Cuba
and that he was really the leader Of the
fight which has made the proposed 20
per cent reduction on the Cuban sugar
tariff possible. They say, however In
explanation of this, that the speaker
was driven into line by the overwhelm-
ing sentiment of the country contrary
to his first position. Again these re-
publicans put forth the claim that the
west end of the congressional district,
composed thruout of republican coun-
ties, is entitled to recognition; that
Dubuque, the only democratic county
in the district, having had that honor
for twenty years. should be satisfied.
These are the reasons given today by
leading republicans of Waterloo who
fol ,,V.t,, ~
Senator Courtright's consent to become
candidate before the republican con-
.gressional convention. They will urge
them in the different counties of the
district, and declare they have hope
that the people will sustain them In
their claims.
Senator COPYRIGHT, who is a mem
Der of the state senate, now serving his
first term from the district composed
of Grundy and Blackhawk counties, has
been at his home here in consultation
with number of his friends. The re-
suit of the conference was that he
agreed to make fight for the nomina-
ton. Senator COPYRIGHT is an attorney
and a self-made man. He is SO years
of age, having been born in De Kalb
county, ILL., in 1S49. His father was one
Of the California gold hunters of that
year. After his father returned from
the west the family lived on farm in
McLewin county, ILL.,, until 1859, when
they moved to Iowa, locating in Grundy
county. In 1874 Mr. COPYRIGHT became
possessed of a desire for newspaper
work and purchased the Ackley Inde-
pendent, which became the Ackley En-
terprise, and conducted the paper as a
strong republican organ for some time.
Then he sold the paper and moved to
Parkersburg, where he studied law.
While studying he assisted his father
in conducting an agricultural imple-
ment business. He was admitted to the
bar and after practicing at Parkers-
burg for several years moved with his
family to Waterloo in 1894 Here he is
senior member of the firm of Court
right & Arbuckle, and is recognized as
one of the most successful attorneys in
this part of the state. The only po-
litical Office he has ever held he is now
filling as state senator, and is acknowl-
edged to be making a commendable
record. He is a strong man in repub-
lican counsels and personally popular.
In speaking of the contest yesterday
Senator Courtrieht said he would enter
the field without animosity for any man
and intended to conduct a fair, open
and clean canvass Of the district, de-