Show MIGHT CAUSE BIG BLAZE Reeds Opinion of Speaker Hendersons Act l STANDS BY THE IOWAN Former Speaker Is Firmly Opposed to Tariff Revision and Deprecates Such Action on tho Part of tho Rc publicansHe Believes Sentiment of the People of tho Country Is Radically Opposcd to Any Tinkering Tinker-ing With the Tariff Is in Sympathy Sympa-thy With Henderson TRIBUNE SPECIAL Washington D C Sept 27Thc Honorable Thomas B Reed exSpeaker of the House of Representatives who is in Washington for u day or two on Honc private business expressed himself him-self tonight as being greatly Interested In the outcome so far juj It affected the Republican party of Gen Hendersons declination to run again for Congress Mr Reed denied himself to newspapermen newspaper-men all day but this evening In hln enutloun New England way permitted himself to express a few opinions on the most interesting situation which has been injected Into politics for along a-long time SYMPATHT WITH HENDERSON In discussing the matter Mr Reed plainly evinced his sympathy with the present Speaker of the House and as If combatting the many critics of Gen Hendersons action who assert that the reiinon he gave for his withdrawal was not the real reason Mr Reed remarked scornfully I don t see why when a man In the political world assigns a good reason for sudden action on his part even if It be precipitate he cannot can-not he believed Why should not Gen Hendersons reason as advanced by him be the correct one True he may have feared defeat and withdrew for that reason and If ho did he Is not at all to be blamed OPPOSED TO TARIFF REVISION That Mr Reed Is llrmly opposed to tariff revision and deprecates such action ac-tion on the part of Republicans wua evinced by some very significant remarks re-marks he made They had better let the tariff alone he exclaimed and the exSpeakers manner was very emphatic o em-phatic as he said this E believe the Hcntlmcnt ofthe people of this country is radically l opposed lo tariif revision and If It Is not It certainly will be should tho tariff ever be revised BIG BLAZE MAY FOLLOW When Mr Reed was asked what In his opinion would be the effect of Speaker Hendeisnnr attitude on the Republican party he replied Well you know I am out nC politics and I look lo t I others for political forecasts but I might say that sometimes a great conflagration may be started by a very little match I APPRECIATES HENDERSONS MOTIVE MO-TIVE Former Speaker Reed Is In a better position to appreciate and understand the motives behind the action oC Gpu Henderson than any other man In the United States for In resigning from Congress three years ago he did so at a time whcai although he was not at that time Speaker there was no doubt Of his reelection The most strenuous efforts were made then to discover some ulterior motive for his resignation rather rath-er than that which he gavr that ho thought It time to engage In time business busi-ness which would give him better financial finan-cial return |