The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-15
GUNbYTALKSOF
PROGRESS|VES
IN PENSACOLA
BULL MOOSE CANDIDATE DELIV-
Frs ADDRESS ON CAMPAIGN IS
SUES, cRiTIcIZING REGULAR
REPUBLICANS-B SAYS
L'ENGLE DEFEATED BLouNT.

In a straight from the ) shoulder
speech which held large audience in
the Garden street parkway for one
hour and twenty minutes last night,
E. r. Gunby, of Tampa, the nominee
of the new Progressive party for con-
gresham at large plugged oratorical
hot-shot into the Lee-Chubb regular
Republican alliance in Florida, eulo-
gized Woodrow Wilson as fine man
and a wise choice by the Democrats,
said he expects him to win in the
coming election and talked generally
on progressiveisn and what it should
mean, to his mind, in the south
Mr.. Gunby was introduced by r. F.
Bingham, one of the local leaders of
the Bull Moose Mr.. Bingham opened
by stating that II. L. Anderson, of
Jacksonville, national committeeman,
was unable to be present because he is
filling speaking engagements in an
other part of the state. He then told
the audience that they must use their
heads when reading political accounts
or notices in The Journal, as, he said,
1t has 'the metropolitan idea" and is
trying to discredit Roosevelt
He based his statement upon a brief
and which he had previously quoted.
1t was to the effect that the Bull
Moose, having failed to interest the
men through William C. Hodges, last
weeks speaker, had decided to appeal
would devote much Of his time to the
suffrage question.
Mr.. Bingham, in his talk last night
also made reference to Claude LEngle
the Democratic opponent Of Mr.. Gun
by. as the man responsible directly for
the defeat of w. A. Blount by Nathan
P. Bryan In the primaries last year.
According to Mr.. Bingham, Mr.. Biount
would be United States senator now
had not Mr.. L'Engle published a GER
tain letter Of Mr.. Blount's in his pa
per. He said the letter in question
was an old one at the time of its pub
LEGATION but that II was used as If of
recent date and led a great many
voters in Florida to vote for Mr.. Bryan
in the belief that Mr. Blount had with
drawn from the race.
BECAME PERSONAL ONCE.
In his speech last night, Mr.. Gunby
became personal but once and that
time with the bluntness which char
acterized his every utterance. he very
deliberately stated beforehand that he
intended 1t TO be personal.
He was talking about Henry S.
Chubb when he said:
IF Chubb-Henry 8. Chubb-and
| this Is personal, very personal-if
Henry s. Chubb had been selected as
one Of the twelve disciples, the name
of Judas Iscariot would never have
| appeared in history"
He then referred humorously to the
| fact that there was a time when the
| Chubb family, up in Vermont, had
owned the Lee family and that he
thinks 1T not uniting down here in
the south that Joe Lee, negro collector
of internal revenue for Florida, should
own Henry S. Chubb.
Speaking OF Roosevelt and his poll
cies, he stated that he would not make
himself eligible for membership In the
Ananias club by coming out in favor of
all Of them There are sixty-nine
planks in the Progressives' platform,
he stated. and he cannot conscien-
| tiously advocate all of them.
| II have not always agreed with
Roosevelt" he said. st went to him
in 1902 and I went to him in 1904 and
asked him to help me make a white
/
II told him that what we wanted
down here were agricultural and me-
chanical training schools to educate
them into the spirit Of usefulness and
the way to be useful and emancipate
them from their political ideas.
/ The young colored men of today
/ are not growing up as good as their
fathers and that Is regrettable. We
u in
could not do without him. And ]
would rather see a negro on the in
side of the fence guiding a plowshare
| than see him on the outside with the
[ changing. Isn't that real friend
ship?
II put those things up to Roosevelt
I but he turned me down cold. He went
}. ahead and appointed the Republican
|. party In Florida to office. He did il
] twice-Taft once. Mr.. Taft will not
] do 1t again-he won't have the chance
He then stated he felt indebted tc
I Roosevelt for starting a third party
! fifty years after Lincoln freed the ne
4 gToes and giving the white man In
j Florida chance to free himself of the
D black man.
\ But for Roosevelt's starting the
third party I would have joined the
Democrats this year and voted fo1
Woodrow Wilson. For Wilson I hav'
no criticism. I think he is good mar
and that the party which nominated
him made a wise choice. If he 1.
elected and-man to man and talking
to you as I feel-he probably win be
have no fear that this country vii
go to the devil"
AS there were only a small numbel
of ladies in the audience there wa!
comparatively little time given to tn
suffrage question. To some extent Mr.
Gunby disagrees with Roosevelt Oh
woman's suffrage.
OPPOSES WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
81 am opposed to woman's suffrag
in the state of Florida he said, "ant
also to woman's suffering. Our hes
and most intelligent women in Florid;
do not want the ballot; they woul,
not exercise their right of franchise /
they had 1t and 1t would only brin;
TO the polls those women whom W
don't particularly care to see vote
| But In New York, Pennsylvania an
Ohio, where thousands Of girls an
women are operatives in the factor
and labor oFfau twelve hours da,