President Roosevelt, indeed, deciared his purpose to work for the killing trust-born evils, but he ungod first careful examination and then careful action. He had no purpose of using a tariff reduction as a club with which to strike, Too Slow for the W
But such a programme as this was too slow for some of the Western Republicans. The Iowa State convention in its platform declared for "such modification of the duties as shall be required to pre-Fent their affording a shelter for monopoof David B. Henderse:
Now, as it happens, the speaker of the House of Representatives, David B. Henderson, comes from Iowa, and in the natural course of arents he would he a candidate for ro-election this fall. The Speaker of the House is practically the most powerful member of the administration, after the President. He substantially controls the lower bronc of Coneress to the extent at least of being able to prevent any legislation adverse to his party or to "tis faction of the party. The power he holds, of course, as a sift by the chaise of a majority of the fellormembers of his party, but Henderson has had their entire confidence, and his retention as Speaker in the next Congress has been a foregone conclusion.
Now Henderson i High-tant! Man, a Protectionist of the old school, and the vation of his party in his own State was therefore specially distasteful to him. Yet so strongly Republican is his district that there is practically no doubt that. holding the views that he dees, he would have been returned by a large majority. fe Declines re-election, But he threw a bombshell into the amp of the Republicans by declaring that ae should not be a candidate for re-clection, giving as his reasons that he "does not truly represent the view of his con-
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