Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1902 — HENDERSON IS OUT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HENDERSON IS OUT.

SPEAKER DECLINES NOMINATION FOR RE-ELECTION. ThinkaHimself Not in Line with Party —Candidate’aWithdrawalDue toAdoption of “No Monopoly-Sheltering Tariff Plank” by Hawkeye Republican*. Believing himself out of harmony with some of the people of his district and of the State on the question of tariff revision, David B. Henderson of lowa, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has declined renominatioh. The tariff plank in the platform adopted by the Republican State convention on July 30 was the point which had the chief influence in ,prompting Mr. Henderson’s action. He held it a step in the direction of free trade and declining to follow the party into ways he could not approve, he decided to retire. Format Letter of Withdrawal. Mr. Henderson’s withdrawal was announced in the following letter, addressed to C. E. Albrook, chairman of the notification committee, at Eldora: “My Dear Sir—l have never answered the kind notice communicated by you and your associates, advising me of my nomination for the eleventh time, by acclamation, as the Republican candidate for Congress for the Third Congressional District of lowa. Reported conditions in the public mind in my district upon public policies induced me to make this delay. Since my return to the district I have made a careful study as to the sentiment in this district and State, and I believe there is no little sentiment, and

a growing sentiment, among Republicans that I do not truly represent their views on the tariff question. Declines the Nomination. “Believing this condition to exist and knowing that I do not agree with many of my people that trusts, to which I am and have been opposed, can be' cured, or the people benefited by free trade, in whole or in part, I must decline to accept the nomination so generously and enthusiastically made.

“I 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 for the farmer, the laborer and the business interests of this district and State. I am grateful for the devotion that has ever been accorded me, and to the hour of my death 1 will hold in a grateful heart the memory of that devotion.

“I will give later on, in some detail, my views and convictions on our conditions and on publie questions, and will state my reasons why the Republican party and its policies should continue in the confidence of the voters of the United States, and why the doctrines of the Democracy should find no lodgment in the faith and teachings of the Republican party. Very truly yours, “D. B. HENDERSON.” Plank Speaker Objects To. The tariff plank in the platform to which Mr. Henderson took exception is as follows: “We stand by the historic policy of the Republican party in giving protection to home industries, and point for its vindication to the extraordinary rapidity with which our national resources have been developed and our industrial and financial independence secured. We favor such changes in the tariff from time to time as become advisable through the progress of our industries and their changing relations to the commerce of the world. We indorse the policy of reciprocity as the natural complement of protection, and urge its development as necessary to the realization of our highest commercial possibilities.”

DAVID B. HENDERSON.