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Show REGULARS ISSUE STATEMENT. I ! Declare Contests at Chicago Were Settled Upon Their Merita. Washington A statement, approved by President Taft. defending his nomination nom-ination by the Chicago convention was made public at the White House on Sunday. It reviews every con test before the Republican national committee and the credentials committee com-mittee of the convention and asserts that each contest was settled logically, upon Its merits. The statement was submitted to the cabinet at a recent meeting and received the approval of the president's official family. The statement, which Is a lengthy document of 144 printed pages, is a detailed denial of the charce that the r nomination of President Tafts was in complished by Ibe seating of fraud-u fraud-u ently elected delegates to the con I vention. |