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Show UTAH PROGRESSIVES REPIiiPEHS Charge Leader With Mismanagement Mis-management of Roosevelt's Roose-velt's Campaign. SEND HOT TELEGRAM To Attend Luncheon Today and Consider Joining With Democrats. Utah Progressives yesterday sent a telegram to George W. Perkins repudiating re-pudiating his advice and charging that he mismanaged Roosevelt's campaign. At noon today they will hold a luncheon meeting with National Committeeman A. T. Moon, due to arrive from Chicago Chi-cago this morning, for an important discussion dis-cussion of their plans. The return of Committeeman Moon at this time is unexpected, as it was thought he would remain in Chicago until the meeting of the national committee com-mittee on June '25. The report that he would be home today did not come direct to the Progressive leaders. In case he does not come they will confer at luncheon lunch-eon at the Wilson hotel anyway. "We refuse to hold off on our plans at the request of Mr. Perkins," said Colonel Wesley K. Walton, chairman of the Progressive state committee yesterday, yester-day, "and the chances are that we will form an alliance with the Democrats in Utah, as we did two years ago.' Text of Telegram. The telegram sent by Chairman Walton Wal-ton to George W. Perkins follows: George W. Perkins, 1547 Forty-second Street building, New York: Your wire received. (Asking the Progressives to withhold action.) The Progressives of Utah have already acted. We are for a third ticket in nation and in state. In Utah wo have an unbearable condition twenty years of rotten rule of the Republican Republi-can party and we must defeat It, even though wre form a coalition with the Democrats to accomplish the I purpose. We feel that the national I committee should insist that Colonel 1 Roosevelt run. We believe that Roosevelt's campaign has been mismanaged, mis-managed, and It is a mistake to request re-quest the Progressives to remain silent si-lent pending the meeting of the national na-tional committee. Very few Progressives Progres-sives will support Hughes under any i circumstances. WESLEY K. WALTON, Chairman, Progressive State Committee Commit-tee of Utah. Unofficial negotiations for a joint state ticket are to be undertaken at once by Progressives and Democrats. Each party has some diplomatic agents, ready to confer with the other side, and they will proceed unofficially to formulate proposals propos-als that will be set before both the Democratic Demo-cratic and Progressive state conventions. Done With Perkins. The Democratic state convention will be held in Ogden In August, on some date following the Republican convention, which Is set for August 9. The Progressive Progres-sive state convention will be called for Salt Lake City the same day the Democrats Demo-crats meet In Ogden. Progressives Interested In the unofficial negotiations for an alliance include State Chairman Walton, N. A. Robertson, secretary sec-retary of the state committee-; National Committeeman A. T. Moon, Allen T. San-ford, San-ford, W. D. Uvlngston, Hugh A. 1k-Millin 1k-Millin and J. H. Turner. The Democrats include State Chairman S. R, Thurman, Professor Joseph F. Merrill, former National Na-tional Committeeman W. R. Wallace. F. K. Nebeker. Cuthbert L. Olson and Isaac Blair Evans- A conference will be called soon, at which more members of both parties will join the conferees. Progressive leaders say emphatically that they are through with Perkins as a national leader a.nd advisor. They point to the text of Chairman Walton's telegram tele-gram as proof of it. The Progressives axe waiting Impatiently a conference with National Committeeman Moon, who has been In the east ever since the Chicago conventions. |