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Show CANDIDATE FILES FACETIOUS REPORT WASHINGTON, Nov 17 n.-presen-' tatlvc Graham, Republican, Illinois, didn't spend any money to his campaign cam-paign for re-election and lie so stated stat-ed in a. report filed wiih the clerk r the house. But he added this, said to be different from anything ever put in an expense report heretofore: ''Owing to the fact that the sena-i tors from my state have absorbed all the federal patronage, and owing to tfie further la nvntable la t that the darn fool alleged civil service order of th president has prevented in'-from in'-from naming postmasters while it makes me respousiblo for th'so ap-pblntlriorits, ap-pblntlriorits, I have tliouelit ii t;-.'. better bet-ter part of discretion to promise nobody no-body anything, and henco I am as virtuous vir-tuous us a new-born babe as far as promises are concerned. 1 have made none." |