Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-10-27
DEMOCRATIC THUNDER!
A Centennial Affair for the Democrats
Of Clearfeld County.
AN HUNDRED FOLD BETTER
THAN EVER BEFORE.
DE GoLYER, MURRAY a COMPANY ASSIGN
ED WHERE THEY BELoNG-DEMA-
doGUEs OF THE FIRST WATER.

For twenty-five years we have been
q spectator Of big meetings in Clear
feld-Democratic, Wing, Know Moth
ing and Radical-but tho hugest af.
fair OF the kind came of on the 10th
inst On that afternoon people tum-
bled into town by wagons, horses and
car loads. Eleven cars iull inside and
on the platform came from the eastern
end OF the county, while the West,
North and South came in by hundreds
in wagons and on horseback to swell
the crowd. The like OF it was never
witnessed in Clearfield. The torch
light procession in the evening put
everything in blaze of glory, while
the musical strains Of the brass and
martial bands was perfectly dealening.
There was the Curwensvillo Cornet
Band, Philipsburg Cornet Band, Osce-
ola Cornet Band, Houtzdalc Cornet
Band, and the Orpheus and Citizens
Cornet Bands, of Clearfeld, besides
some eight or ten Martial Bands from
different parts of the county.
The Bradford township delegation
of a large number of wagons, and vehi.
cles of every description, and about
fifty horsemen, astonished both Repub.
lican and Democrats.
The delegations Of people, flags,
transparencies, drums, etc, from Penn,
Pike, Curwensvillo, Knox, Bloom, and
other sections in the southern end Of
the county, were immense, and arriv-
ed in town about two o'clock and join.
ed the procession. The afternoon pa
rade was large and imposing. At half
past thi ee o'clock the audiences listen
ed to brief addresses from the Court
House steps from Ex-Governor Curtin,
General Pearson, Major Dundas and
Senator Wallace, who all signifed their
intention of speaking TO the crowd at
great length in the evening
The question that puzzled Chairman
Burchfield in the evening was "Where
in the world will we put these people,
the town is full, the streets are crowd
ed, and it is not possible to find room
for them anywhere p However, soon
after dark, the Court House and Pics
Opera House was chock full Of people
while the streets in the vicinity of the
Court House and the depot were
crowded with a moving throng, all
anxious to hear somebody make q
speech.
Aitera torchlight procession made a
circuit Of the town, meeting was or
ganized in the Court room, presided
over by Adam Humphrey, and another
in Pies Opera House with Judge Bar
rett as presiding officer, and score oI
Vice Presidents and number of Sec
retaries.
The Speakers present, General A. Il
Pearson, of Pittsburg, Major W. W
Dsndas, of Philadelphia; Ex Governor
Andrew G. Curtin, our nominee fol
Congress, and State Senator Cyrus T
Alexander, of Bellefonte, and Senator
Wallace, alternately addressed thu
tbrong in the Court House and Operi
House. The gathering was the larg
est in numbers and display that evel
assembled within the borders of Clear
field county, exceeding the crowd o
1876, and every looker.on manifested
that fact in his countenance 1t wal
indeed q glorious day and night fol
tho Democrats of Clearfied county.
Some of tho solid men there who
are seldom led estray by excitement
the next morning claimed 5000 major
ty for Hancock, because Of the mag
nifcent turn out and display on The
part ofthe people at this demonstration