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Show 111 SITS Fffll "Deserter From Progressives Is Traitor to Humanity," His Words. ACTION IS CONDEMNED Local Bull Moosers Adopt Resolutions Pertinent to His Candidacy. Progressives of Salt Lake county have come out strongly against NephI L. Iorris, the former Progressive leader, who is now a. candidate for the Republican Repub-lican nomination for governor. They have adopted resolutions saying that If he is nominated they will Join with the Democrats Demo-crats to beat him. The Progressives say they regard Mr. Morris, who was the Progressive candidate candi-date for governor four years ago, as a traitor to their party. Yesterday they dug up copies of the party paper, the Progressive, of two years ago containing a speech by Mr. Morris, In which he branded as a traitor to the cause of humanity hu-manity anyone who would desert the Progressive Pro-gressive movement. These they showed to country delegates to the Republican state convention, who wanted to know why the Salt Lake Progressives were so strongly opposed to Mr. Morris's Republican Repub-lican candidacy. This speech published in the Progressive Progres-sive was delivered at a Progressive conference con-ference in this city two years ago. At that time, the Progressives pointed out, Mr. Morris pledged himself against any amalgamation with the Republican party, which is the subject of a series of caustic paragraphs. The Progressives derisively de-risively quote from Morris's speech, "No, we will not amalgamate ; we stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.." Speech of Morris. The subject of that address was "Shall "We Amalgamate With the Republican Repub-lican Party?" and, as reported by the Progressive, he spoke as follows: The Progressive movement is greater great-er than the Progressive party. The Progressive party of the United States is a manifestation of a movement move-ment which is world-wide in its scope, a movement which is characteristic of the age, one which is working for a genuine democracy and is battling against every foe to those principles upon which a democracy is established, estab-lished, socially, industrially and politically. politi-cally. When the contract with the people, which was the declaration and programme pro-gramme for action of the Progressive party, was announced, it was said by some of the loading thinkers of the day that the Progressive party programme pro-gramme of America had given a twenty years' setback to Socialism. The unrest and discontent among the great masses of the human race in various countries. If not in all countries, coun-tries, has been protesting in various ways against the wrongs that humanity human-ity has long and patiently suffered. Age of Co-operation. This is an age of co-operation, with human welfare as its underlying motive mo-tive and universal brotherhood as its ultimate object. In England the peo- ' pie have arisen to protest against the feudal power; in France, against the ecclesiasticism ; in Germany, against imperialism ; in Austria and Italy, against landlordism ; in Turkey and Prussia, against autocracy, and In America the protest is made against a combination of corrupt wealth and corrupt politicians. In a very large measure the responsibility respon-sibility for this evil in America has grown out of the corruption of the Republican party by a long exercise of power. That party, which has a venerable history, in Its decline and fall gave forth such manifestations as were manifested by Cannonism and Aldrichism, both of which were quickly quick-ly followed by such offensive forms of corruption as are implied In the term Lorrimerism. As a result of these offensive tendencies ten-dencies In a party which has held the United States In Us hands-for almost a quarter of a century, there came an awakening of the popular conscience, Rnd the result was, in two words, a democracy triumphant. Party Not to Blame. You cannot blame the Progressive party for this great Democratic victory. vic-tory. When the protest against these wrongs first appeared it was in the form of insurgency, which grew up under Republican partisan tyranny. Insurgency grew and gained in strength and eventually crystallized Into the Progressive party. The failure of the Republican party to revise the tariff downward, and thus treat with indifference the solemn sol-emn pledge It had made the American Amer-ican people, along with an accumulation accumula-tion of party sins, resulted in a political po-litical revolution, which turned the house of representatives over to the Democratic party and came within elx of making the senate Democratic. The Republican party was still blindly devoted to Its despotism, and at the Chicago convention of 1912 committed a political crime against the democracy of the country. In that act it dug its own grave, into which It Is being rapidly lowered. We hear the dull clods fall upon the casket; dust to dust! Peace to its ashes! In an article which recently appeared ap-peared in a popular weekly -iournal, ex-President Taft announces that the one supreme mission of the Republican Repub-lican party is to defeat the Progressive Progres-sive party In its presidential electfons. We would regard such a mission of gigantic proportions, to aay the least To see so great a thing done by so small a power as Utah and Vermont combined Is a thing incredible. Called World Movement. I am to speak upon the subject, "Shall We Amalgamate?" Since ours 1b a cause and causes are greater than men, would it not be a forsaking of our cause to amlgamate with the element ele-ment whose avowed mission is to compass our defeat? These grpat world movements, of which the Progressive Pro-gressive movement Is the last to attract at-tract the attention of the thinking people of our ago, are always of necessity ne-cessity in the interest of humanitv, and the forsaking of such a cause is turning traitor to the causo of humanity. human-ity. The short-sighted look only upon the aggravation some mere detail of a grpat pvent, and overlook the thing Itfiplf. For example, the making of brinks and the gathering of their own straw was not the cause which brought Moses into divine relationship relation-ship for the purpose of working out the emancipation of ancient Israel. God doesn't care much for bricks and straws. AnrMent Israel had a high mission to perform among the races of men, and for the accomplishment of that mission in the economy of God, the bricks and st raws became a mere aggro vat Ion which set the cause afoot with irresistible force Since ours is a cause and not a party seeking office, snail we amalgamate? amal-gamate? Should Moses have capitulated capitu-lated to Pharaoh and withdrawn the plagues of lice and frogs and blood and gotten together with the Egyptian Egyp-tian powers? If he had, he would have forsaken the cause of humanity and the cause of God and would have perished in the waves with Pharaoh and his hosts as traitors to a great cause. Had the nobles and princes at Runny mead e clasped hands in conciliation con-ciliation with King John, we would have had no Magna Charta, no triumph tri-umph of liberty in that age. Had Columbus submitted to the council at Salamanca and said, "Yes, the shadow of the earth upon the moon is a lie, the earth Is fiat." we had known no scientific research, no discovery of his age; there had been no revival of learning in the middle ages. Had Duther, at the Diet of Worms, said otherwise than he did, modern Europe would not possibly be as it is today, nor America, for the matter of that. Had Washing! on, Jefferson, the Adamses and Franklin gotten together to-gether with the representatives of the court of King James, had thev con ciliated and compromised. It Is probable proba-ble that the divine right of kings would be in force today and we had had no Declaration, of Independence, no constitution, no republican, no human hu-man progress. Had Lincoln in his controversy with the south yielded in the argument argu-ment and had said, we shall have a divided nation, half free and half slave, we would have had no union and no emancipation. So we, men who fight for principle In preference to party, believe ourselves our-selves to be the representatives of a great cnuse. f;ir greater than our party can ever be, for it is the cause of humanity. No, we will not amalgamate ; we stand at Armageddon and we ba ttlo for the Dord. Regarded as Traitor. Progressive If.iders of Salt Lake county recalled that speech of Mr. MoitIh's when they met at luncheon at the Wilson hotel ho-tel tiie other day and unanimously adopted adopt-ed resolutions to the effect that If the HepuliIicKiiH nominated Mr. Morris for governor wilh the idea that he would have (he Progressive voters with him, they were mi.sta.Nrii: 1 hat they regarded Mr. Morris us a traitor and that iT lie was nominated by the Republic-ins the Progressives Pro-gressives would unite with the Democrats to defeat him. Among the Progressive party leaders & at that meeting were W. D. Livingston, chairman of the Progressive stale executive execu-tive committee; State Senator Frank Evans. Ev-ans. Progressive National Committeeman A. J. Moon, Chairman J. H. Punier of the Progressive countv coininitee, W E Schoppe, secretary of that committee; Judge Brigham CI egg, Hugh A. McMil-Iin. McMil-Iin. Sheriff John S. Oorless, County Treasurer Treas-urer R. C. Nay lor, County Assessor H Parsons, County Auditor C. A Weaver Mrs. Alice Paddison, Mis. L. M. Craw-ford, Craw-ford, County Commissioner J. II Wheeler Wheel-er B. B. Ramey, George M. Sullivan and others. Bitter Against Morris. Many of the Progressive leaders sav that there is a sentiment among them to join the Republicans this vear If they get any encouragement, but they will not stand for Morris, and that if he is nominated nomi-nated they will join the Democrats and work against him. If Morris is not nominated, nomi-nated, they say, most of the Progressives favor the Republican part v. "There are $000 to IluOO Progressive voters in Salt Lake county," .said J. II. Turner, chairman of the Progressive county committee, when asked about the attitude of the Progressives. "We have a perfect organization. When Morris ieft the Progressive party he didn't take half a dozen Progressive votes with him. "The Progressives of this county feel that Nephi L. Morris Is a traitor to the Progressive party. For his own advantage advan-tage he attempted f o lead the Progressives Progres-sives into tiie Republican part v. Since last winter Morris has been in conference confer-ence with a faction of the Republican party to advance his own interests. And all of this time he was In the councils of the Progressive party, telling us that he would not accept an indorsement for governor gov-ernor in the Republican paMv unless it came afler he had been nominated by the Progressives. Desertion Resented. "As I said, the Progressives fee (hat Mr. Morris has deserted and betrayed t hem and that Is why t hev are now against him. That is why lie resolutions resolu-tions were adopted without a dissenting vote at the luncheon meet ing of Progressives Pro-gressives the other day al the Wilson hotel. ho-tel. Mr. Morris eerlainly cannot expect the Progressives to help him a ft er the way he lefi us and that, is whv. if he should be nominated by the Republicans, it. would drive the Progressives into a union with t ho Democrats. "There is a tenrlencv among Progressives Progres-sives In afiiliate with the Rep u hi lea n partv provided the Republicans do not nominate Morris and offer the Progressives Progres-sives some enrnu ru genie ri I . Many Progressives Pro-gressives are not in accord with the Democratic Dem-ocratic administration." H. Ij. Cummins, secretary of tiie state committee, to read the call. This perfunctory per-functory matter attended to, the temporary tempo-rary oftlcers will be introduced and Mayor A. R. Heywood of Ogden, the temporary chairman, will launch upon Ills "keynote" "key-note" speech. Folio wing the speech, the convention will elect its three Important committees commit-tees on credentials, permanent organization organ-ization and order of business, and platform plat-form and resolutions. The members of these committees will have been chosen I previously by the individual county dfcle-, dfcle-, Rations, in caucus. Each county will have one member ot" each committee. Tiie convention, unless It breaks all precedent, will recess immediately after the naming of the committees. Then the re:il fireworks will begin to tro up. There will probably be pood displays of pin-wheels, pin-wheels, Human candles and skyrockets in all three committees. There Is certain to bo an interesting session of the committee on permanent organization and order of business. Senator Sen-ator George Sutherland and his friends will try to have the nomination of United j States senator put aiiead of the nomination nomina-tion for governor. Jenkins With Senator. The friends of Jenkins are said to be witli the senator in this, but the friends of Governor Spry and Nephi Ij. Morris are known to be decidedly against It. They want the nomination of governor first, and it was stated last night that thev would stand pat on It. One of Senator Sen-ator Sutherland's supporters said last night that the senator would appear before be-fore the committee and request that the senatorship come first. The Spry and Morris people said they might not insist on the senatorship coming last, but it certainly would not be first. There will probably be rivalry for 'control 'con-trol of the committee on platform and , resolutions, the friends of each candidate : wanting the privilege of writing the plat-j plat-j form upon which the candidates will i stand. There is sure to be a strong plank I declaring for state-wide prohibition, no i matter who writes the platform. This is ! conceded on all sides. Matter of Speculation. How soon the convention will get down to the serious business of nominations de pends on now long the committees take to whip their affairs into shape and make their reports back to the convetion. Probably Prob-ably it will be 2 or 2:30 o'clock at the very earliest. Then some time will be consumed in reading- and adopting the reports. re-ports. All the nominations come thereafter, there-after, which is why some of the delegates dele-gates are hooking rooms In Ogden a nd figuring that the state convention will last over to Wednesday. All the candidates will have headquarters headquar-ters in Ogden today. Governor Sprv and Mr. Morris both have suites reserved at the Reed hotel. Other candidates will be there, also, and there will be many headquarters in the Eccles building. List of Nominations. The nominations to be made by today's convention are: Governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer, st a le auditor, superintendent of public instruction, judge of the supreme court and United States senator. Dr. I'J. G. Go wans, for state superintendent superin-tendent of public instruction, seems to be the only candidate unopposed. For judges of the supreme court some friends were mentioning Judge C. W. Morse of Salt Lake county yesterday! Judge I"). N. Straup is a candidate to succeed suc-ceed himself on the supreme bench. Also mentioned are Judge A. H. Christciisen of Sa.npete county and Judge J. A. Howell of Oeden. State Senator Frank Kvans, Pro-igiessive Pro-igiessive of Salt Iake, said yesterday he ! was not a candidate for the supreme , bench. |