The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-09-23

said that he is possessed of wealth and
can take his ease, so in resigning his
position as assistant secretary of the
navy, joining the army and going to
Cuba with the Rough Riders - show
ed that he possesses true American
grit and his conduct at San Juan hill
was commendable and heroic.
The speaker was quite severe in his
criticism of Judge Parker and quot
ing from the Irish-American, a news
paper printed in New York city, re-
peating the charge that the distin-
guished democratic nominee for pres
ident had stated in a grocery store at
Esopus that dollar day was enough
! to pay for unskilled labor and that he
was sorry to pay even that much, and
argued that Judge Parker if elected
would give an unwilling and unfriend-
ly ear to the demands of labor.
Mr.. McFarlane spoke for an hour
and a half lit seemed longer than that
to the democrats in the audience) and
was accorded an attentive hearing.
Mr.. Gunby was next introduced and
spoke for about the same length of
time. Very few. speakers in Florida
are more eloquent, insinuating and
pleasing that Ed Gunby and he SEEM
ed to have been at his best Wednes-
day night.
He said he felt at home in Ocala,
for it was here, almost in the identi-
cal spot, that he made the second po-
litical speech he ever attempted, and
as :sthe people here treated him so
nicely on that occasion he has
loved them ever since and if he gets
into congress Ocala can get what she
wants.
His likening the democratic party
totthe moon and the republican party
to.the sun was original and poetic.
He said the democratic party was
like the moon because it is SO varia-
BILE and changeable; it is sometimes
full and sometimes half full Gust like
so many democrats); it is sometimes
silvery and sometimes golden; and is
sometimes, indeed, very frequently
on the wane. Judge Parker he de-
scribed as the ''man-in-the-mOOn."
At first he was almost indistinct but
as he was observed more closely he
, became more recognizable. In other
words, until he secured his nOmina-
ton the Judge was as an Egyptian
sphynx but as soon as he secured the
plum he out-Heroded republican or
gold:democrat in his declaration for
the gold standard. Like the man-in-
the-moon he said Judge Parker would
GO into total eclipse on the Sth of No
vember. If the almanac is searched
he said it would be found that the
moon would be totally invisible on
that date. While the moon reflected
only borrowed light, and never built
a fire nor turned a wheel, he de-
clared the sun reflected its own light,
gave out its own heat, warmed and
vitalized the whole earth, was unva-
riable, Interchangeable and eternal in
the heavens. In every way he affirm
ed this brilliant orb was like the G. o.
D. in stability, the same yesterday,
to-day and tomorrow, and in the
distribution of its blessings was uni
form and impartial, showering them
upon the just and the unjust.
Mr.. Gunby said that during the
reign of Mr.. Cleveland this country
passed through series of most un-
precedented hardtimes as result of
the Wilson bill. Banks, he said, fail
ed in Ocala and all over the land;
people in affluence were reduced to
poverty, but as soon as the republican
party was restored to power, and the
policy of protection again put in OF
Grafton, like the revivifying and fruc-
tifying rays of the sun, prosperity al
most instantly illumined the
whole American continent. Pros
perity, he said, had made city of
Tampa; that it had increased from a
struggling village of three or four
thousand tc over thirty thousand and
nroperty values more than an hun