The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-17
DECLINED BY
 HENDERSON Will Not Accept Congress SiOnal Nomination. AT ODDS WITH HIS PARTY Does Not Believe in Revision
 of the Tariff.
AT ODDS WITH HIS PARTY
Says Such Action Would Result in Ruining of American Indus tries Without Curbing
 the Big Trusts.

Dubuque. Ia., Sept. 16.-Speake~ Hem derson of the House of representatives, finding that his v.ews in respect to the iff in whole or part, are not in accord with the views of his party In command in Iowa, today declined to accept the nomination :or Congress and las with drawn from the race
 The following letter was addressed to c. E. Alb ook, chairman of the Notiflca- ton Commit e, Fl Dorado, Ia.. by Mir. Hende; son:
 My Dear Sir-I have never answered the k.nd notice communicated by you and your associates advising me of my nom- ination for the eleventh time by accla- nation. as the Republican candidate for Congress for the Third Congressional Dis trict of Iowa. Reported conditions in the public mind in my district upon public policies. induced me to make this delay.
 Since my return to the district, have made a careful study as to the sentiment in the district and State. and believe there is no little sentim mt and grow ing sentiment, among Republicans that I do not truly represent their views on the tariff question.
 Declines to Accept.
 Believing this condition to exist. and knowing that do not agree with many of my people that trusts, to which l am and have been opposed. can be cured. or the people benefited by fires trade, in whole or in part, I must decline to accept the nomination so generously and enthusias- ticaliy made
 CT have devoted twenty of the best years of my life to the service of my people and my country, and I have fought for what I believed to be best fer the farm CT the laborer and the business inter- ests of this district and State. am grateful for the devotion that has ever been accorded me, and to the hour of my death I will hold in grateful heart tho memory of that deyot'on. will give later on in some detail, my views and convtc- tions on our conditions and cn public questions, and will state my reasons why the Republican party and It's policies should continue in the confidence Of the voters of the United States, and why the doctrines of the Democracy should find no Judgement in the faith and teachings of the Republican party.
 ''very truly yours,
 ID. B. Henderson"
 Sneaker Henderson announced his with drawal after a conference of several hours with Chairman Chaser of the Congress sional Committee and several friends this afternoon. He had been contemplating this action for two weeks, but had lnti- mated nothing of it to friends until yes- terday. At today's conference his friends impIored him not to take the action but he said he had made up his mind and no argument could cause him to change his decision.
 Henderson Talks.
 When asked for hls reasons for ms withdrawal Speaker Henderson 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 industries. The foreign trusts are fighting the American trusts and I don't believe that for the purpose of controlling American trusts. we should make a market for foreign trusts. thereby crushing out the indus tries of this country. After my confer ence last Saturday at Waterloo and after hearing the views of the Chairman of my District, I concluded that my views on tho tariff question were at variance with those or many of my party and l did not desire to appear in a false posi- ton
 Speaker Henderson gave out an address ihs evening which states his views on the tariff and trust questions and be- cause these views. In his opinion are not in accord with the State platform and with the opinions of prominent members of his party, he declines to accept the nomination.