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Remarks in Waterville, Maine

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Feb 4, 1909

I do not believe in the doctrine that to the victor belong the spoils; but I think even less of the doctrine that the spoils shall be divided without a fight by the professional politicians on both sides.

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Jan 21, 1909

The policy of conservation is perhaps the most typical example of the general policies which this Government has made peculiarly its own during the opening years of the present century.

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Feb 4, 1909

The noncompetitive examination in a case like this is not only vicious, but is in effect a fraud upon the public.

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Feb 26, 1909

It is hereby ordered that two small islands of the Pribilof group, located approximately in latitude fifty-seven degrees north, longitude one hundred and seventy degrees west from Greenwich, be and same are hereby reserved.

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