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GOVERNOR, 1903

pass the notorious troubles that arose when Blake Walters was cashier of the Pennsylvania State Treasury from 1878 to 1880 and party leaders were accused of having been accommodated with state funds to use in speculation.”

With this illustration of the reckless wickedness of the most decent of the Philadelphia newspapers in my time, ready to harm, without information and without inquiry, the record of my first year as governor closes.

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