Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-11-08
OUR MASS EFFORT !!
The Old Union Savers In full
Force.
A STREET ILLUMINATION !!
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TILDEN, HENDRICKS AND RE,
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tlchrneiui ouI On luesuiy, OVtooer
3lst, 1876, although not particularly
on exhibition ourself we felt like
clasping hands with the thousands Of
our Democratic friends (wcre ii posi-
ble) and get up Il regular Centennial
affair right here in the woods Of Clear
field county, Notwithstanding the hun.
dreds of our people who had been de-
coycd off to Philadelphia to see the
sights there.
We have witnessed some pretty
large gatherings in our county The
celebrated Peace Meeting Of 1864, and
the Centennial gathering on the 4th of
July, 1876, for numbers never wcss
exceeded until Tuesday a week. One
of our foreign speakers, who was not
born in the woods, when he took
look at the moving masses, exclaimed
"Why, whore in creation do all these
people sleep in this pine country How
many are here from the other side OF
tho Allegheny Mountain It's not
possible that these people all live in q
small circle in this wild country ~ Mr..
Gibson was finally persuaded that the
crowd before him was q portion of the
Democratic inhabitants of Clearfeld
county. But to return; The former
big meetings were thrown in the shade
on the 3lst ult The afternoon parade
was one Of the quietest and best dis
play in numbers that ever entered the
borough. The torch.light procession
at night was simply wall of fire
around and through the town. The
exhibition was magnificent in the cx-
treme but when the sixteen loaded
cars arrived from the eastern end of
the county, and unloaded their human
freight at the depot, with the bands of
music, banners and torches, the sight
was superlatively grand.
Chairman Test had no idea in the
early part OF the day, that it would be
necessary to organize before evening /;
but at three o'clock p. m. he surren-
dered, went to work with carpenters,
etc, and erected q stand on Market
street in front OF the Mansion House,
facing the Court House. At about
four o'clock, he called the multitude to
order, or rather tried to; but it was
marching along" and music all the
time, until finally he succeeded to call
a halt, when he moved that Hon.
George r. Barrett act as President,
which motion was unanimously agreed
TO- together with long list of Vice
Presidents and Secretaries.
Judge Barrett on taking the stand
delivered short and pungent address,
eodifying in hi, legal way the many
crimes committed by the party in
power
At the CONCLUSION of Judge Barrett's
remarks Ex-Governor Bigler was
called upon the stand and proceeded to
deliver the following practical speech :
SPEECH OF EX-GOVERNOR BIGLER
shall speak kindly of the masses
of the Republican party, for, in some
measure, they have my sympathy.
They have been deceived and betray-
ed by their leaders. They were prom
ised purity in the administration Of the
government, frugality and honesty in
the use of the public funds, a reduction
of taxation and peace for all sections
of our common country. But the ad-
ministration has given them the con-
verse of every one Of these PROPOSE
tions, and to establish these allegations
only few facts need be submitted.
In eleven years of peace nearly four
thousand four hundred millions have
been collected from the people for the
use of the National Government alone.
being over four hundred millions per
annum, absorbing the entire surplus
tba nn5lic deht has besn rcdmcod oniw
ohont Ave- bundrcd m;Ilions Per ca1
II. toxotion which in Democratic
timoa wos n merc fraction has tberehv
hesn run nm 70 niab,een dollar ncr
onnum E;gbtcon dollars for ovarv