Show I SPEAKERS SPEAKER'S TARIFF ATTITUDE PROBABLY MISCONSTRUED SAYS SECRETARY SHAW I U A A A A 3 C V 4 4 Vt It 11 Vt 4 41 I t f. f DES MOINES Io Ia I Sept 17 17 b i 1 Speaker Henderson refused to reconsider re- re x i 1 V. V consider his withdrawal from the f. f tr Congressional race r In the Third i L V. V district This morning the fol- fol b. b i I lowing telegraphic reply was rel recd re- re ret t l tl cd In response e to a request to Y r reconsider hl his action netlon v- v V. V at t Dubuque In 11 Sept 17 17 K r M Lafe Lae Young and S. S W W. l r Des Moine Your Ja-Your la Your 1 y r Joint telegram un sincerely t K r S elated but cannot reconsider for 01 s Ir tP after an age spent In lighting fighting for fOI fori Y i my country countr State and district I fr t 5 cannot acquiesce in administer administer- administerIng fy r Ing Ins free tree trade poll poison on to cure tho the b. b t tV V trust t evil eyll which I abhor t D B B. HENDERSON fit A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A WASHINGTON Sept 17 Secreta Secretary 17 Secretary Shaw said today todar In commenting upon Speaker Hendersons Henderson's declination of a a. that while he refrained either from flom criticising or Justifying the Speakers Speaker's course cours he con considered dered it of or of very great reat Importance and due to G Gen n Henderson that hl his position be not mis mis- understood Either many newspapers misunderstand misunderstand stand Gen Hendersons Henderson's position or I do I understand under him tt to stand stan pat on the tariff plank of or the 10 iv Io platform which favors ors such revisions as ns changed conditions condition make advisable In hi his hiM addless address address ad ad- dress to the R Republican publican voters of the Third Io Iowa Ioa a district he says a s 's While I have been against a a. general general gen gen- en- en eral revision re I have never t I been opposed to making needed changes and I am not now 10 Nor do I understand stand him to object to the trust anti plank which is is in a a. different dif ferent section of the State platform I and which only declares against allowing allowIng allowing allow allow- ing the tariff to become a shelter for trusts It goes Roes no further than Intimating intimating tIng t- t ing that such a n thing may occur It does docs not say such u a thins thing does exist Commenting on this plank in his address ad ad- address dress the tho General says It is s a bold hold declaration that if modification of or the tariff are required to prevent monopoly from helt Hs itself lf under the wings of or protection then th the tariff shall be modified to prevent nt th that condition As I under understand tand him lie he n hinds finds ds himself to agree with the Inter Interpretation placed upon this plank b by man many of his constituents constituents constituents and firm finn party friends ric To what point If It an any the Republicans or oC Iowa are advocating a a. removal reino of or the tariff on trust-made trust or controlled goods good as 18 a remedial measure I am unable to speak I think Gen Hendersons Henderson's friends ought to see to It that his position be correctly correctly correctly cor cor- interpreted to the people and that he be not placed In the false light of having ha declined to be a candidate for tor Congress because as to use the language lan Inn guage e of the 10 Iowa a lla platform to such changes in the tariff from time to time as become advisable bl through the progress progress pro pro- gress ress of our Industries and their chan changing changing chang chang- In ing relations to the commerce of or the world would HENDERSON DEFINES HIS POSITION IN A ALETTER ALETTER ALETTER LETTER TO PEOPLE DUBUQUE In ia Sept 17 Speaker 17 Speaker Hen Henderson save gave ave out an address last evening which stabs stab's s hl his bin views on the trust question and says because of or these views which arc are not in accord accord I with the State Stat platform and with the opinions of or prominent members of his party part r he declines to accept th the nomi- nomi Continued tl on Page Pago 2 2 tt t t r I r I r ad e i- i ii i- i t i i- i ii r sUa i- i ii i- i i- i ii i- i ii i- i it t- t ti i- i ii r i- i R ii i- i i- i ly G ri ril R l' l 4 i- l SPEAKER D D. 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B HENDERSON 4 44 4 4 t f 4 t 4 44 4 t HENDERSON OUT OF LINE WITH PARTY DECLINES CONGRESSIONAL NOI NOMINATION Raises Banner saner of o Protection Protection tion Against Free Trade Policy O lC Advocated voca e in Republican Platform in Iowa rowa own C Continued ed from rl Pago Pado o t. t t nation The ad address Is Ig tte to ta the Republican lican voter of ot the Third Iowa db district tract fla J says being a a. t Republican he Is 13 a n. protectionist and I If it he ever entertained a as nl to tin the wl wisdom rIom of ot the protection protection pro pro- policy a ar r comparison son between the present and past would would d blot out such f doubt He then speaks with satisfaction tion of the tariff planks of oC the two last two national platforms olms and says Control Rests Bests in Con Congress ress For three year yeah eara I have advocated giving control of or trusts to Congress in my ju Judgment prot proper er supervision can cnn never ne b be behall had hall until Congress has power to treat them thera I 1 nm em m glad to see lee from speeches mart made by our fearless and upright ht C Chief Executive tb thai h he Is advocating Federal control over these there corIX corporations and hll In some same quarters t they ma may sneer at al it tt I 1 have not seen an any proposition yet et except this that Sf seems at all aU likely to bring re re- re lief No Io prop proposition has ever been made by the tho Democracy ex except pt to put everything everything every TY thing thin on the free Cree list and give hc tho this country country country coun coun- try free Cree trade In other words they pro- pro poso pasa to kill the child dead In order r to cure it They c to slaughter every cry Interest t In tn tho the United StAt States whether capital or labor in a i wild wll l and blind effort elfort el- el fort tort to provide a. a remedy for Cor trusts Trust Question Serious In my opinion If It combinations could coulet be regulated and controlled we WC would wo-ild have havo very veri tr little demand for tor changes chances In tho tariff laws IanS To show ho how strongly the Republican party rt feels upon this subject In Its Us State platform this year It declarer In favor of any modification of or th the tariff that may be required to prevent affording shelter to monopoly Our Democratic Democratic friends treat this as moving Into free trade trado grounds It Is nothing of tho sort It is a hold bold declaration declaration declaration declara declara- tion that If It modifications of the tariff are arc r required to prevent mono monopoly IY from shel ishel Itself under the wings g of or protection protection protection tion then the tariff shall be bo modified to prevent that condition con ker Pos Position Jio For For- Formy m my part If ft apy epy gr great Rt Interest In Inthis Inthis inthis this country countr Is prospering through through and protective protective pro pro- policy or any other legislation n and andIs Is using Its advantages cs growth and prosperity prosperity pros pros- to plunder the American people Ifor I Ifor for tor one am ready to strike It b by whatever Ic legal nl means i wp imay may be bo able providing pro pro- viding that Inso o doing we do not hurt In Innocent tn- tn Interests I am not prepared to toSa Sa say I would be by willing to strike down and destroy American combinations and lot ht foreign combinations come In and do dothe dothe dothe the work but butI I would like t to control our own corporations corporations' so O that there could be f t lr play amon among the American people I have hae beet been more mor amused d than hurt at nt the tho suggestions that I have ha heard against t tany any than chances es cs In In inthe the tariff White While I been against against t a general revision recognizing recognizing tho the wisdom of or President Roosevelt elt In his Is first message to Congress Con in which ho he advises S against It it I have hav never been opposed to making t f needed changes and andI I I am not now I must say and emphatically I call that I do not bellevo b a schedule schedule schedule sched sched- ule of tho DIngley tariff law can cnn be bo so nm amended as to r relieve t people from the oppre oppression slon of trusts or combinations of capital however nam named an and that such action must Involve tho the retarding of our our expanding commerce alid n the getting and holding of foreign markets Indeed I behove be- be lie hove such auch plan to 1 be fraught with grave dangers clangers to the tho people Advocate of Reciprocity I am a firm believer er In reciprocity I worked with untiring zeal to secure reciprocal reciprocal arrangements arran between Cuba and this country UJ I 1 was successful In passing passIng pass pass- Ing It through tho House Tho The Senate old did not act on tho the bill because It Jt would have permitted this the opening of or the whole question ques ques- tion of tariff revision Tho The House has nothing to say about the ratification of treaties but tho the reciprocal al resolutions upon which it legislated In respect to Cuba Cubi were v-ero not In the nature of oC treaties but they were reciprocal arguments ar in which 1 think our country must have the best heISt of the bargain doubtless the they would have havo been e of Ie great advantage to Cuba while 1 I cannot ep speak k for the prospects of favorable ble action upon uvon bills billa sent sont to Lathe the Senate I 1 still hope and believe bellevo that b by bya a n treaty tho the same Mme result may bo be accomplished and I ha have have- hano no doubt that President President dent Roosevelt ett is now working on the question of ot a n treaty with Cuba to give tl that th struggling young oung republic needed help a help heap too In which while they will wB be bo gainers earners wo we will not be losers And now let mo me sa say and let there bo be bon bono no n misunderstanding as DS to my position 1 I believe In protection that will protect the tile hand lland pf pt labor tho the wheels heels of or Industry every even farmer and merchant and I ama am nm a against wicked con corporations that would woud trample upon tho rights of or people to to fairplay fair fairplay play ploy and the tho fruits of ot honest efforts I Iam Iam Iam am against nn any legislation that would throw m my country In panic and bring back horrors horr i bequeathed l to us b by the last Democratic administration Plain Statement In conclusion o I desire to say ray that after a 0 c careful study of ot conditions and AUld political views in Iowa anI and in my own district I Iam art aril satisfied that I lam nm not In harmony with a great many of ot the Republican voters who Ic e c that fret free trade In whole oV 61 In part part- will remedy the trust evil lI 1 I I. I believe that Jt H will not liot but such Huch sucha a r s Hitch to I Involve lh Nution In dangerous results arid no so O believing ln I Ishall Ishall shall ahA not ACCt accept accent t tho nomination for Conf Congress Congress Con Con- f bre gress which was so BO generously t tendered me mc and I 1 have huyo decided ch accordingly I cannot part from a 3 i 1 people coplo that 1 I have ha loved and that have hac honored mo too without IC leaving an expression on of ot my earnest anc and i FORMAL FOR IAL WITHDRAWAL OF HENDERSON i 4 44 4 DUBUQUE la In Sept 17 Sp Speaker Speaker ik r Henderson H on finding that his vl views s 's sIn 4 4 in respect to to the treatment of or rusts b by reducing the tariff In whole or orr 4 part put are n not t In accord with the views vim's of or many of or his party In Iowa ha has has' f declined rI to accept accept- tha nomination the for Congress s and has withdrawn from from fromI I 4 f I. tho the race Speaker Henderson has addressed the following letter to C C. E. E f- f Albrook of or Eldora la Ie chairman of ot the notification committee 44 f 4 4 My e de dear r Sl Sir Sic Sic-I I I have never ne a answered s the kind notice communicated d 4 t b by you yoU and your our your ns associates ad advising ad me nie of ot my nomination for the elev- elev f h by acclamation as n Republican candidate for Congress for th the 4 f- f Third Congressional district of oC Iowa own Reported conditions ms In the public 4 f mind In m my district upon public policies Induced 1 me to take this delay Since m my return tl to the district I have made a n. careful study as to 4 the sentiment In the tho district and State Stale and I believe bellevo that there is not no f little sentiment t and a n growing o one e among Republicans that that i I do not truly 4 44 4 represent their views on the tariff question f t 4 Believing this condition to and knowing that I do not agree 4 f 4 with many of or m my people that trusts trusty to which I am am and have been op- op f 4 f po posed ed can he be curbed or the people benefited h by free trade In whole holc or In 44 4 4 part I must decline to accept the the nomination so graciously and 44 4 4 made 44 4 4 I OIl h have we devoted de twenty of oC the best years NU of my life to the service of ot oft 4 4 t my people and my country an and hove have h e fought ht for what I believed to be 44 4 4 best for the farmer the thc laborer nn and 1 the tho business Interests ts of oC this district 44 4 4 and State I am grateful for the devotion that has hns ever cr been accorded 44 4 t 4 me and to the hour of my death will hold In a grateful heart tho memory 44 4 t tt 4 t of ot that devotion 44 4 1 4 I will later on give In some some dc detail my views and convictions on our 44 4 4 conditions and on public questions an and state m my reasons wh why the Re- Re 44 4 4 publican parly party and nd Its policies should continue In the confidence of oC the 44 4 4 voters oten of oC the United States and why the thc doctrines of oC the Democracy 44 4 4 should find no lodgment In the fal faith h and teachings of the Republican f 4 part party Ver Very truly yours ours D. 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B HENDERSON 4 41 T 1 t j f t sincere views Ies on and other vital public pub pUb- lie lic qu questions D B B. lIr DEnSON HENDERSONS HENDERSON'S ACTION CAUSE OF SURPRISE AMONG POLITICIANS WASHINGTON Sept 17 The The The dispatch dispatch dis dis- patch announcing Speaker Hendersons Henderson's declination of the Congressional nomi nomination nation caused a 11 sensation In Washing Washing- ton on Vcr Very few felt public men are arc In Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington at this time but all nn here expressed expressed ex ex- pressed regret that th the the- Speaker had determined de- de on the course announced in the I Dubuque dispatch The reasons leadIng leadIng leading lead- lead Ing up to his action were perhaps as much a matter of or comment as tho the re refusal refusal re- re I to stand for re Public men acknowledge that there Is a demand demand de de- mand In of or the West Wesl and I Northwest for a revision of or the tariff along certain lines notably In the cases cases cases' of or articles whose e manufacture is I controlled controlled con con- trolled by tho the trusts Their opinion Is I that Hendersons Henderson's decision will make this issue more moro acute and It Is suggested suggest suggest- ed that the President Is conferring at at this time with leading Senators from the East and West Yest presumably on th thery the very ery question which h has S forced Hen Hen- Henderson derson derBOn out of or line with his party in Iowa The Iowa Republican convention h held ld In the latter part of or July JuI took strong ground on the question of reduction orth of or th the tariff on g goods whose hose production In InthIs Inthis Inthis this country countr Is controlled by the trusts making the following declaration on n that |