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Show MORRIS PULLS MAY FROM PROGRESSIVES Says He Will Support Hughes and Urges Roosevelt Roose-velt to Do Same. INDIGNATION AROUSED Resolution Is Adopted De daring That Party's Mission Mis-sion Is Not Yet Ended. 1 Nephi L. Morris, Bull Moose candidate candi-date for governor four years ago, formally for-mally withdrew from the Progressive party yesterday, after he had failed to induco the local Progressives .to join him in supporting Hughes, the Republican Repub-lican presidential candidate, and in urging urg-ing Colonel Koosevelt to support I Hughes. J The Progressives accepted his with-I with-I drawal as a matter of course, but they ! got somewhat warm when they learned j tnat Mr. Morris had already wired Colonel Roosevelt to get into the Hughes band wagon. Tho Progressives hastily telegraphed Roosevelt to do nothing of the sort aud told him that Morris had turned Republican and therefore did not represent the Progressives of Utah. All this happened at a luncheon given yesterday by the Salt Lake Progressives Progress-ives at the Newhouse hotel, iwhere resolutions reso-lutions were adopted opposing anv indorsement in-dorsement of the Republican national ticket and declaring for national, state and local Progressive tickets. Copies of the resolution were sent -to Colonel Roosevelt and to A. T. Moon, Progressive Progress-ive national committeeman for Utah, who is now in the middle west, awaiting .the important meeting of the Progressive Progress-ive national committee in Chicago June One Dissenting Vote. The resolutions were adopted with only one dissenting vote that of Nephi L. Morris. The resolutions follow:-Utah follow:-Utah Progressives in conference assembled are of the opinion that the mission of the Progressive party, par-ty, as set forth in the "contract "with the. people" in 1912, has not yet been fully accomplished either in state or nation. We believe it is the duty of the national Progressive committee to see to it that the Progressive party is thoroughly organized in the nation na-tion and that national, state and county tickets should be placed in tho field for the coming campaign, and we are unalterably opposed to ' any indorsement of the Republican candidates. That we hereby express our continued con-tinued confidence in our national committee representative, A. T. Moon, and trust him to properly represent Utah Progressives at the meeting of the national committee June 26. Mr. Morris attended the luncheon and spoke vigorously against the resolutions when they were proposed by George M. Sullivan and Judge George F. Goodwin. Ho told the Progressives ho had telegraphed tele-graphed the day before to Colonel Roosevelt urging; him to finally decline the Progressive nomination for president presi-dent and give his support to Hughes. Gives Valedictory. When the resolutions were passed with only his voice dissenting, Mr. Morris again took the floor and gave his valedictory address. He said that he had been a Republican before the Progressive party was formed and that he had decided to go back to that party, and support Hughes for president. presi-dent. Mr. Morris added: i To urge Colonel Roosevelt to run as the third presidential nominee is equivalent to asking him to place the stamp of insincerity upon all that he has said in opposition to and criticism of the Wilson administration. ad-ministration. It is almost universally univer-sally conceded to be a contest between be-tween Mr. Hughes and Mr. Wilson, so far as the candidates are concerned. con-cerned. The third party movement can only contribute to the Wilson side, thus the colonel's candidacy on a third party ticket would be equivalent equiva-lent to his undoing all the marvelous marvel-ous work he has done in the eighteen eigh-teen months' anti-Wilson campaign, which started with one man, himself, him-self, and in that time has grown to several million adherents. If you Progressives were sincere, when you approved the colonel 's announcement on preparedness and foreign policy and when he vigorously vigor-ously condemned the Wilson administration, admin-istration, how can you promote a third party movement whose mea- Burable success would unquestionably unquestion-ably mean the , perpetuation in power of the Wilson party? Mr. Moris added that when Mr. Roosevelt became a receptive candidate before tho Republican national convention, conven-tion, a contract was implied which would prohibit him from accepting a nomination in opposition to that party. Mr. Morris also indorsed the Republican Republi-can national platform and Judge Hughes's record. McMillan Is Heard. When Mr. Morris had concluded his Progressive swan song, Hugh A. Mc-Millin, Mc-Millin, one of the active Progressive workers, took the floor. ' ' Mr. Morris 's resignation was not unexpected," stated Mr. McMillin. "The only regret I have at this time is that I sat supinely .by and -permitted" Mr. Morris to go on with his 'keynote' speech at the recent Progressive state convention, where he read into that speech talk of alliance with the Republicans Re-publicans which was not in the manuscript manu-script when he read it over to the Progressive leaders the day before." The rest of the Progressives parted with Mr. Morris more in sorrow than in anger. 1 ' So long, take keer of yourself, ' ' they said, and shook him bv the hand. "These polite regrets, though, in no wise lessened their annoyance over Mr. Morris Js telegram to Colonel Roosevelt nor deterred thein iu taking speedy steps to correct any impression Roosevelt Roose-velt might have gotten that th- Progressives Pro-gressives in Utah wanted an indorsement indorse-ment of Hughes. . With the cony of the resolutions as adoted, the Progressives telegraphed j Colonel Roosevelt an explanation that, Mr. Morris was not a Progressive and that he was, therefore, far from representing repre-senting the wishes of tho Progressives in this state. As has been hinted, Mr. Morris's withdrawal from the Progressive party and his flop back into the Republican party occasioned no surprise among the Progressives. Last winter when Senator Sena-tor Reed Smoot and his Republican henchmen were casting about for someone some-one to run for governor against William Spry they hit upon Nephi Morris, and launched' an early boom for him. The populace failed utterly to acclaim Mr. Morris as a Republican gubernatorial possibility and nothing has been heard of the boom since. The Smoot crowd ruthlessly abandoned it and it perished, probably on State Senator W. W. Seeg- : miller's doorstep, where it was last seen, j Many Speeches Made. j To return to the Progressive luncheon, j There was a considerable number of , short speeches by various Progressives, ! declaring for a maintenance of the par-tv, par-tv, and for national and local tickets of its own. Two of the speakers were returned- delegates from the Progress- j ive national convention Stephen II. Love and Mrs. L. M. Crawford. Other speakers included George Goodwin, P. J. Bonohue. Allen T. San ford, George M. Sullivan, N. A. Robertson, George M. Holmberg. ( 'ouuty Commissioner J. I H. Wheeler. W. D. Livingston and State Chairman Wesley K. Walton, who presided. pre-sided. Reference was made to a combination with the Democrats on a nonpartisan judiciary ticket in this, the Third ju-i dicial district. No reference was made I to a combination with the Democrat.- on state, congressional and county tickets, tick-ets, although t hat possibility has oc curred to the Progressives since they nr more aloof than ever from the Republican Republic-an party. J |