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Show PROGRESSIVES URGED to voiefojj wm Leaders in Utah Issue a Statement to Members j of the Party. FUSION IS COMMENDED Fear Is Expressed That Change in Administration May Prove Disastrous. After a conference yesterday afternoon after-noon with Hugh T. Halbert, former Progressive presidential elector from Minnesota, Progressive leaders in Utah issued a statement in which they urged the members of the Progressive party in the state to do everything in their power for the election of Woodrow Wilson and the entire fusion ticket. The statement was signed by A. T. Moon, Progressive national committeeman committee-man from Utah; Wesley K. Walton, chairman of the state central committee; commit-tee; N. A. liobcrtsoo, secretary of the state central committee, and W. D. Livingston, Liv-ingston, chairman of the state executive committee. In the statement the history of the party in the nation and its activities in the state are nrieflv set forth, with the declaration that Progressives from principle would not follow any particular particu-lar leader unless he squares himself with their principles. Fusion Still Favored. The fusion in Utah of two years ago was com mended and it was set forth that the Progressives now wish to complete com-plete the object for which they have been contending by supporting President Presi-dent Wilson and the entire Progressive-Democratic Progressive-Democratic ticket in Utah. Fear is expressed that if Charles E. Hughes' is elected under present condi- j Hons the managers of the Republican party will construe the result as warranting war-ranting the continuance of stand-pat re- , actionary .Republican policies. j ' ' We believe, ' ' the statement says, ; ''that there are enough voters in Utah who believe in Progressive principles to carry the state for Wilson and the fusion ticket, and these voters hold the balance of power. j Wilson Is Praised. I "We believe that the splendid record of Progressive legislation secured during the past tour years under the leadership of , Woodrow Wilson Is convincing proof that : he is much more progressive than Charles 'Hushes and wh are fearful that a ' change in the national administration at tiiis time would undo much of the good progressive legislation heretofore enacted, and many of these measures might be repealed. "Measures like the corrupt practices act now pending in the senate and other unfinished progressive legislation would be jeopardised by a swapping1 of horses in midstream. "We, the trustees of the Progressive party in the state of Utah, do, therefore, urjje all Progressives believing in the principles of our party to do everything In their power from now until election day for the election of Woodrow Wilson and our fusion ticket." |