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Show 1 h 1 hi nliK II IIi it I TO SUPPORT TFT H WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 Tele- H graphic pledges of (support from nine H Republican governors were given out B tonight from the campaign hoadquar-, B ters of President Tad. H Tho executives gone on record for H the president's nomination are: H Eberhart, Minnesota Carroll,; Iowa; 1 Haj, Washington; Goldsborough, M IIar land; Tener. Pennsylvania; Hoop- B cr, Tennessee. Spry, Utah; Pennewlll, B Dclaware Potheir, Rhode Island. B In addition to the signed stato- H managers claimed tho support of De- B neen, Illinois, Oddie, Nevada, and. H Meade, Vermont. H Tho announcement from tho Taft H hureau is taken as an answer to the H announcement of seven governors, H upon whose invitation Colonel Theo- H doro Roosevelt based his formal entry H-to the presidential contest Twenty-two states have Republican B governors and all are accounted for in B the various statements of preslden- H tial preferences, as follows: B Declared for Taft, 9; claimed by B Taft managers, 3. Declared for Roose- H -velt, 7, declared for LaFollette, 1; H preference not announced, 2. H The governors who have declared B for Roosevelt are Glasscock, West H Virginia. Aldrich, Nebraska; Bass. B Xev Hampshire, Obbom, Michigan; B Stubbs, Kansas, Hadley Missouri; H Jolmson, California. H Governor Carey of Wyoming also B signed the "governors' letter," urg- H ing Colonel Roosevelt to becomo a H candidate, but It is now asserted that H lie has renorved judgment Neither Bj lias Governor Vcssoy of South Da- B Icota announced, his choice. The Cal- B ifornla executive did not sign the let H tor, but has since declared for the for- H mcr president. Governor McGovern H of Wisconsin is committed to Sen- B atcr LaFoIlottc H Tho nine govornors who have come H out for President Taft take the posl- H tion that his record entitles him to Hj rcnornination and election: H Following arc extracts from the H governors' dispatches. H Ebcrhdrl, Minnesota "President H Tr.ft's administration, measured by H all standards of accomplishment and H fidelity to duty, entitles him to tho H endorsement of a second term, whicn H I believe the inherent sense of fair- H ncss and justice of tho American peo- H pic will ungrudgingly give him." H Carroll, Iowa "There is no justice H in the opposition to President Taft. H Ills administration has been clean H and capable, and in harmony with H platform pledges. A just and rlght- H cous application of the square deal H; would accord him renomiuatlon with- H out a contest." B Ha, Washington Few ndminlstra- H tions can point to tho enactment of H so many wise and progressive laws as H that of President Taft. " I feel H It the duty of every progressive Re- H publican to support Mrv. Taft for re- H nomination and re-election." H Goldsborough, Maryland "I is niv H opinion that President TaXt has given H tho country one of the best admiuls-H admiuls-H ' trations In its history. I firmly be- H Jievo that when the- lecord of the Re- H publican party under his wise leadcr- H ship is fully made known to the pco- H plo they wi'lj rally to his standard, rc- H nominate and re-elect him." H Toner Pennsylvania "In view of H of tho manner in which President Taft Hj has conducted his office tho progrcs- . filvo and substantial achievements of 1 his administration, I unhcsi(.at- H ingly predict his re election." B Hooper, Tennessej "President Taft Hj is personally popular in Tennessee B and his administration commends gen- H cral public conQdence. Tho state organization Is loyally supporting the HHP pre-sideut from present indications, " lie will get tho vote of Tennessee in H tho national convention." B Spry, Utah "I am glad to relter- B ate my personal preference for Mr, B Taft, as presidential nominee. B I regard him as th most logical aa I wcll.as; the strongest man whose namo has been mentioned hi connection I with the Republican presidential nom- B Inatlou. I nra confident that Utah B vjll send a Taft delegation to tho na- WV tional coirvention' h Pennewill, Delaware 'T am strong- h Jy in favor of President Taft's renom. i Jnatlon. His splendid record should Lv insure hi3 rc-olectlon by a large ma- 1 jority." 0 Pothlor, Rhode Island "Prosldent Ijf 1 Taft is a safe man at the head of tho 1' . nation. His administration has been 1 j able and statesmanlike in the broad- A lH9ilEfiBHiBHlHittflttlMiHMB9fi?9r"'B"w'"r est sense His record enMtlcs him 1 to a rcnomlr.ntlon ,n which event ho should rcceio a most emphatic popular pop-ular cndoinomont ' In making public the governor's tel-egrums. tel-egrums. tho Taft bureau also sao that Republican gubernatorial candidates candi-dates In the last elections 'In stntos now headed by Democratic oxccj-tlves oxccj-tlves but vhlch arc counted as normally nor-mally Republican, have declated almost al-most unanimously for Taft |