The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-25
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, September IS, 1902.
The report that Speaker Hender-
son has decided not to run for the
Fifty eighth Congress proved as great
a surprise to the democratic leaders
as it did to the republicans and num-
erous theories were offered in expla.
nation. That it is a most tangible
evidence that there is friction in re-
publican circles is admitted by all.
The Iowa republicans are badly split.
the Dolliver-C er-Cummings- E.oberts fac
ton favoring tariff revision, as oppos-
ed to the Allison Henderson. Shaw
Wilson combination which opposes
the slightest change in the duties
which have proven of such great SER
vice to the trusts. That the former
faction represents the majority ofIowa
republicans, was proven by the tariff
plank adopted at the recent state con-
venton. From these facts, GER
tain democrats draw the conclusion
that Speaker Henderson foresaw de-
feat in his efforts for re. election, par
ticularly as he wes likely to be op-
posed by so strong a candidate as
Ex-Governor Boies, and he took time
by the forelock ana declined to run.
AT all events, 1t must be conceded
that he has 'Tetired under fire." and
most searching fire.
Another and more ingenious theory
which is advanced in Washington is
that Senator Allison Immediately tele-
graphed speaker Henderson from
Oyster Bay to The effect that the
President had agreed to suppress his
tariff reform views out of respect to
the Wall Street interests and that the
Speaker then declined the nomination
on the ground that he was not in
sympathy with the tariff revision plank
of the state convention, in order that
the republicans of his district might
renominate him and thus, at least to
a certain extent, repudlate the plank
referred to, and at the sans time de-
liver blow TO the aspirations of the
Dolliver, Cummings Roberts faction.
Gen. Henderson is know to be very
shrewd politician, however, and it is
quite possible that he sees farther into
the future than do the majority, and
that he has taken this opportunity to
retire and devote himself to his law
practice which will prove more remu-
nerative now than it would if he wait
ed to be defeated.
The latest rumor current in Wash
ington is to the effect that the demo.
Gratis of the third Iowa district have
unearthed certain unsavory incidents
in the private life of Mr.. Henderson,
incidents in which figure most promi-
nently the "fowing bowl" ETC., which
they were preparing to make public
during the campaign and that the
Speaker preferred to retire from pub
lie life rather than undergo this sort
of hre. The rumor is unconfrmed
and is given here for what it is worth.
*"
The important conference at Oyster
Bay, which was participated in by the
President, Senators Hanna. Aldrich,
Allison, Spooner, and Lodge and
Postmaster General Payne, occurred
on Tuesday ard the outcome was In
entire accordance with that predicted
in these letters some time ago. The
President yielded his tariff revision
views to the men who warned him
that any reduction of the duties on
trusts made products would effect his
defeat in 1904. He agreed to 10 be-
fore the country and advocate tie al
ready timeworn issue of Cuban re-
ciprocity and constitutional amend.
ment for the control of the trusts.
He is, however, going up to Minnesota
where republican candidates are
promising their constituents that the
election of a republican House will
mean tariff revision and he is likely to
have some very embarrassing questions
put to him. The western republicans
will not be put off with the advocacy
of constitutional amendment which
1t will take years to effect. They
have clearly stated that they want
such reduction of the duties as will
insure a prompt decrease in the prices
of the necessaries of life and when
Mr.. Roosevelt attempts to divert their