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Bill Taft: “My fellow citizens, I am glad to see you because I am glad to know that the population of Arizona, which I believe will…”

On the recordOctober 12, 1909
My fellow citizens, I am glad to see you because I am glad to know that the population of Arizona, which I believe will soon become a State, is of a character to deserve it.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Address at Prescott, Arizona

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