Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-19
HILL CANNOT
Be FORCED OUT
OF MAYORAL RACE
Progressive Candidate Goes
Back at Those Who Threat
en- to Excoriate Him.

All efforts to have Frank A. Hill
quit the Progressive race for mayor,
In favor of Thomas L. Raymond, the
Republican nominee, have failed. On
Saturday afternoon Mr.. Hill was APP
preached and told that If he did not
withdraw a committee organized
in the interest of Raymond would
draft a set of resolutions excoriating
him. Mr.. Hill announced that he
would not even consider it.
THE Republicans have failed to
realize that we are not a faction, but
party as distinct as the Republican
or the Democratic party" says Mr..
Hill, in a signed statement issued
today.
81 was not surprised to see the res
olutions of the committee. l was
told that my life would be made UNI
bearable If I did not get out for
Raymond. I was also amused to
read the verbal assault in the edi-
torial columns of the Call, the an
Gent organ of the Republican party
and devoted to the interests of the
Old Guard in all its ambitions.
"Of course, the Common Scold,' or
what some humorist has termed the
Evening New-sance, represents no
party and no particular political
principle. 1t says it is supporting the
Democratic administration, and here
it comes out for reactionary Re-
publican for mayor, a Republican
Board Of Works and a Progressive
for the Legislature. 1t is excoriating
the Democratic party in the city
and praising the Democratic party
in the State and nation. It demands
Democratic support for Wilson, and
it decries Democratic support for
Haussling. Its editor is the great
est political gymnastic marvel in the
world.
"But to get back to the Republican
proposition that I withdraw in favor
of the reactionary Raymond. The
effrontery of the Republican claim
for the Progressive vote is only
equaled by the futility of its effort.
The Progressive party In New Jersey
is composed of men who are fighting
for principle. These voters stand for
principle rather than men and if
they didn't they would have gone to
the Republican or to the Democratic
party long ago.
'And why should Progressive who
sticks by his party for principle pre-
fer to waste his vote on the party
from which he split because it
hadn't any principle to speak of, and
why should he relent in his opposi-
ton to the men whose control of the
party in 1912 was resented as the
unforgivable sin, when he sees the
very same men once more at the helm
and heaping upon the estranged ele-
ment all manner of insult and
epithet?
"I am amused at the attempt of the
Republicans to force back these
voters to a system from which they
revolted on no other grounds than
the necessity facing the Republicans
to beat the Democrats. | imagine
that Progressives, who are fighting
for principles and not for men, will
quietly ignore this sort of talk and
vote their ticket whethersi it succeeds
or whether 1t Is defeated.
"That is what the Republicans will
do and what the Democrats will do
and 1 am unable to discern decent
and tenable reason why the Pro-
gressives should feel themselves
called upon to be driven away from
their principles and right back into
the camp where their principles are
reviled and rejected. 1t doesn't look
logical and it is not going to happen
despite the labored efforts of the
Sunday CALI to make it appear
they are all going to pieces. If the
Progressives have any principles they
hold dear and sacred, do not believe
they are going to risk them to the
mercy of the same old gang and
Raymond, fellow Progressive, is and
always has been reactionary."