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Show NEPHI MORRIS OUTLINES STAND In a formal statement Issued last night, Nephl L. Morris, Progressive candldato for governor of Utah In 1912, declares ho regards the defeat of President Wilson as tho paramount lssuo of tho 191C campaign nnd announces an-nounces that ho will do nil ho can to bring about amalgamation between tho Republicans and Progressives. Ho stntes that ho Is opposed to a combination. In tho Judiciary with the Democrats nlono. His statement follows: fol-lows: "In order to correct certain erroneous erron-eous statements and unwarranted Impressions Im-pressions which havo been mndo, I deslro to state that I am not acting on tho advlco of any political advisor advis-or uor havo I authorized anyone to npeak for mo on political matters and resent such presumption on tho part of any porson. I have no camv-palgn camv-palgn manager for tho slmplo reason that I am not conducting a campaign. I stand exactly whero 1 stood1 In the (Continued on Page, Eight) NEPHI MORRIS (Continued From Pago One) Progressiva convention of last Saturday, Satur-day, when I urged for patriotic reasons, rea-sons, that tho Progressives and Republicans Re-publicans get together. "On the Monday evening following tho convention referred to my Republican Repub-lican friends of tho thirty-fifth district, dis-trict, in tholr primary paid me tho" compliment of nominating mo ns a dolognte to tho Republican Judicial convention. At that tlmo I understood under-stood that tho Progressives wero not going to unite with tho Democrats In n so called nonpartisan proceduro unless the Republicans nlso Joined, Anything short of that makes non-partisanship non-partisanship Impossiblo. I nm opposed op-posed to a combination oVen in thi) Judiciary with tho Democrats alono. For similar reasons I took no part in tho cnrapalgn of two years ago'yln Salt Lnko county whero tho Progressives Progress-ives and Democrats combined. "I stand oxactly whero I stoodlnBt Saturday when I urged that tho '(Progressives '(Pro-gressives and Republicans get together. togeth-er. I nra ncUng in harmony with tho Progressive national commlttco when I sny I am proparcd to do myiport in sinking pact differences between the Republicans und Progressives; 'in ottlcr to unlto nil opponents ottho Wilson democracy in tho coming cam- pnlgn. While I hato the highest 'regard 're-gard for the rank and fllo of thp Utah democracy, I must regard tho defeat of Woodrow Wilson as the' paramount Isbuo of 191G." |