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Show UTAH PROGRESSIVES ILL IT USE CMS. E. HUGHES H 81 Salt Lake, June 27. Judge Brigham H W Clegg, one of the leaders of the Utah H J Progressives, last night sent a tele- H a. grnm to National Committeeman A. T. H Q Moon in Chicago, urging him to use H J3 Ills influence with the other commit- H Si tcemen who declined to indorse H ' Hughes tovcall another national con- H llj ventlon of Progressives, if necessary, M J to put a third ticket in the field. H if J Judge Clegg was exceedingly Indlg- H El nant over the action of a majority of B J the Progressive national committee in H Chicago yesterday. H "I believe," ho said, "that the Pro- H i grossive party has oeen deliberately Hn J betrayed. I will never support Hughes, . H)lJ;j and I know that the other Utah Pro- IM 1 grcssives feel the same way. We are !j proud that National Committeeman ! Moon refused to ho a party to the be- 1 trayal of tho party." I Judge Clegg continued: "It looks to me liko Perkins and the others have been planning from the start to sell the Progressive party H, e ! out betray It to the Republican Hv I party, and Colonel Roosevelt, it strikes H ! me, has shown a streak of yellow. Hl'j). "No self-respecting Progressive can Hf I ' stand for this indorsement of Hughes; Hll they will not be led into the Repub- Hj lican party like lambs to the slaugh- H $' ter. The Veal Progressive Is Indepen- i ! dent, with a mind of his own, and he B n! will not be sold. H ll Judge Clegg, who was a delegate to H jf the recent Progressive national con- H M? prominent Utah Republicans, whoso H a) names he withheld, approached him In Hf ffii Chicago before tho Progressives had H i, nominated Roosevelt, or the Ropubll- H Sj cans had nominated Hughes, and told H 1( him that Colonel Roosevelt wanted to H S rehabilitate liis name in tlie country; H B that ho would finally decline tho Pro- H grcssive nomination, would come out B 9 1 for Hughes, and would be proclaimed H fj! by the Republican papers as a "pat- H 7 riot rather than a partisan." H 1 1 " did not believe it then." said H ; Judge Clegg, "but ItJias all happened H ; just as those Republicans said it H j would. In one way I am glad, for I did V. not want the Progressive parly to be m I j too greatly beholden to Roosevelt. I i M Ii didn't want it to be a one-man party." ( Hl j Third Party Needed. fl jl "J am a real Progressive. I believe M there is room for the third party, to ' H ' t hold the balance of power for good H . against the older parties. When I j H: ; joined tho Progressive party I burned B; , I the bridges behind me, and will not M be led like a lamb into the Republican M, I party." H i Judge Clegg said he hoped it might m j still be possible for the Progressives ( M ; 1 to name a candidate for president he M i urged this in his telegram to Mr. m 1 Moon but if that was not possible, H j . he would vote for President Wilson H ! rather than Hughes, g j The telegram sent by Judge Clegg I to Nntional Committeeman Moon follows: fol-lows: v "Use your best influence with the fifteen true and loyal Progressives who voted against the Hughes deal to fill the vacancy on the Progressive j national ticket, even if it Is necessary to call another national convention." Wesley K. Walton, chairman of the 1 Progressive state committee, Secre- tary N. A. Robertson and other Pro- gresslve leaders were out of tho city yesterday. Judge Clegg said they would be back today, and that a meeting meet-ing of local Progressives probably would be held this noon at the Wilson h ( to discuss the situation. H i , oo |
