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Show MR. HTTT. Robert Roberts Hitt, who has declined de-clined the Republican nomination for Representative in Congress from the Thirteenth Illinois district, has served the people of tho United States since 1874 in the diplomatic service as Assistant As-sistant Secretary of State and in Congress, Con-gress, with credit to himself and profit to bis countrymen. He has been a member of every House since the Forty-seventh Congress. In 1904 a Strang movement for his nomination for Vice-President Vice-President was started, and hud Mr. Hitt's health remained good Mr. Fairbanks Fair-banks might not have received the honor. hon-or. A sound, experienced counselor, a cultivated, honorable gentleman, Robert Rob-ert Roberts Hitt's popular reputation is not commensurate with the valuable services he has performed for his country. coun-try. New York Sun. |