Candidates For The Presidential Nomination
- William Howard Taft (Ohio)
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Illinois)
- Charles W. Fairbanks (Indiana)
- Joseph B. Foraker (Ohio)
- Charles Evans Hughes (New York)
- Philander Chase Knox (Pennsylvania)
- Robert M. La Follette (Wisconsin)
- Leslie M. Shaw (Iowa)
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