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Show ' UIDIDG PRAISES PORTO RIGAN GOVERNOR Island Resident "Report Letter Let-ter Calling Him "Honest "Hon-est and Patriotic" WASHINGTON, Oct. Oovernor K. Mont Keily of Porto Biro, whom administration ad-ministration has been tinder repeated fir from various quarters. Is praised as "a thoroughly honest and highly patriotic pa-triotic man" In a letter said to have been written by President Harding and maris publio today by Carlos Marin Fernandas, a resident of the Island territory. ter-ritory. A copy of the letter, dated September a . If, and addressed to Fernandez at Are-clbo, Are-clbo, Porto Rico, was forwarded by him to Washington for publication. As ' quoted over the president's signature, the, communication says: "I was very greatly pleased to have rour thoughtful letter of September I. want you to know how. greatly Interested Inter-ested I am in every favorable report . which you make concerning the adinln latration of Oovernor Kelly. Of course. I know Oovernor Kelly to be a thoroughly thor-oughly honest and highly patriotic man, and If his activities have resulted In a greater loyalty and higher patriotic Interest In-terest oo the part of the Americana In he Islands tjf Poi to ftlt'u lie will have rendered a very great service to the government of both the Islands and the nation. "If there is some practical way of relieving re-lieving the distressed labor situation which you report. I am sure that Uov-' Uov-' ernor Reily In the Islands snd the government gov-ernment here at Washington will bs glad to be of asslstancs. It Is very distressing dis-tressing to know of such conditions as you report under the American flag." |