Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-30
!. C. BLAUVELT
/. DECLINES ORDER
TO QUIT MOOSE
Don't Generally Do Things to
Please Political Enemies"
He Declares.
SAYS PROGRESSIVE IDEAS
ARE "cAP PISTOL REFORM"
He Will Stay Behind Guns OF
Government Ownership and
Idle Land Tax.
sneoial 10 the E,enlng star.

special to the Evening Star.
HOHOKUS, Sept. 30.-James G.
nauvelt, who yesterL--y was read Out
of the Progressive party at the State
convention in Trenton, announced
today he would not get out. He is
Progressive, h& says. and intends to
stay so. He's not in the habit OF
doing things to please his political
enemies, he says. He's a Progressive
as a matter of principle, he declares,
and that fact can't be lost sight OF
by people who throw mud at him.
Mr.. Blauvelt's statement is as fol-
lows:
81 am not in the habit Of doing
things to please my political enemies.
am a member of the Progressive
state Committee, elected by the vot-
ers of Passaic county. I have used
all the influence could to bring
about government ownership and a
taxation system that would force idle
land into use. These are big ideas
that unfortunately some Progressives
are combating They foolishly be-
are opposing the ideas. There was
once a man who wrung the cocks
neck, believing that he could thus
put off the approaching dawn. The
trouble with these Progressives is
tbey are intolerant. For my part, |
have always welcomed full and open
discussions of every question, always
reserving to others the same right
that | claim for myself--to state our
opinion freely and without fear.
"Just what happened at the con-
tention yesterday I do not know.
Personally, ] could not be present,
as owing to the death of former Judge
Francis Child. the president OF the
Passaic Valley Sewerage Commits
sion, it was necessary That new
president be elected Immediately. As
\ public official I felt my first duty
was to attend the meeting of the
commission, which was heid AT
o'clock In Newark.
cas- / could not attend the Progress
siye convention / wrote a letter to
The State chairman and so advised
him. Whether this letter was sup
pressed or not / do not know. but |
note that one of the newspaper ac-
counts says / did not attend the con-
vention because | was one of those
who considered the party dead.
ST had no information whatever
that an attack was to be made upon
me, yet, as 1t appears in the papers.
there are signs that 1t was planned
beforehand The littleness and intoi-
GRANGE of these men can better be
-raItferstood when they abuse fellow
member in his absence and without
ast.taf- n ifIl
made not a single Passaic county
member OF the convention was pres
emit.
"Of course. they couldn't remove
ANYBODY, and some of those taking
part were irresponsible in themselves,
neither members of the State COM
mittee nor OF the convention.
''They also seem to rest under the
delusion that a member of the State
committee must have views conform
TO theirs On this theory James
Smith, jr., ought to be able to read
Woodrow Wilson out Of the Presiden-
ey or a majority of a committee ex-
pell all minority members. | was
elected for what | was and what the
voters hoped ! would be. and dis
iinctly. openly and avowedly as an
advocate of government ownership.
1.-THE trouble with these short
sighted Progressives is they want a
party not only which they can rule,
but in which their rule is undisput-
ed and they have killed the party
in their mad endeavor.
IT win stay in the Progressive
party and a member of the State
committee just as long as | believe
that by so doing I am advancing
government ownership and the tax
alton of idle land. These, to me, are
the two big siege guns, and | will
stand by them. If they make too
much noise for Progressives with
their cap-pistol reform, perhaps some
day they may give up their cause
and get behind the real gun that will
reduce privilege and increase oppor-
tunity for all who work and labor.
Il couldn't expect TO go through
without criticism and abuse, but in
this instance l feel somehow as
though someone had thrown me a
bouquet. l suppose that's due to my
view of the criticism and whence ii
comes"
Through mistake in transmission
II was said in yesterdays Evening
Star that George l.. Record zap
proved the resolution to read Blau-
welt out of the party. The WORD
should have been opposed" as ID APP
peared on the original copy filed with
the telegraph company In Trenton.