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Show Pershing Is Not Candidate Washington. A flat statement that "if by chance the nomination" for the vice presidency ".should be offered to me, I should decline to nt-cept nt-cept it," was made by General John J. Pershing. Any statement that has been made that I would be n candidal candi-dal e for vice president has been made without my authority," aid the general gen-eral in a formnl statement. "I am not a candidate and if by any chance the nomination Khould he offered to me I should decline to accept it." |