New Britain herald., 1924-07-10
CLARKSBURG HOLDS
 GALA CELEBRATION
"Old Home TOwG'' RelOlCes Over
 Davis Nomination

clarkshurg, ", Va, July lh,-The
 ''fe0l friends of John ", Davis were
 rejoicing today They saw him start
 ed on the way to the White House, a
 path they have been blazing for four years,
 That Mir, Davis declined to take an
 active interest in their campaign 10
 make him president disheartened the
 Home Town Club" not a bit, Its
 members kept plugging away. boom
 ing Davis and today his neighbors
 surveyed the result of their persist
 enee with entire satisfaction, As the
 nominee of the democratic party they
 have invited him hack home for a
 celebration and as a rehearsal last
 night staged a demonstration in his
 honor comparable to the political ral-
 lies of generation ago,
 Many of the most active leaders in the Home Town club were in New York pushing the drive for Davis at Madison Square Garden but every body in clarkshurg Is Davis man and when the news was flashed that Davis had been nominated the town called 1t day and celebrated. When whistles began to blow and church bells started to ring everybody knew that the deadlock had been broken and that the moving spirits of the Home Town club sitting with the West Virginia delegation, had attained their objective.
 Bandsmen left their work, hurled ly obtained their instruments and started parade, giving a musical touch to the din and noise.
 Hundreds fell into line. some walk ing. others In automobiles. Up and down the streat they went, yelling, singing and shouting, their numbers always increasing.
 Meantime active preparations were under way for a'more formal demon- stration and the word was hurriedly passed around that MT. Davis nomin- alton would be celebrated at Davis rally" on the courthouse plaza at dusk. The evening demonstration had it's prelude in an old fashioned poll tical parade with the marchers carry | ing Davis banners and red fire torches. | In it were civic organizations, pa triotic societies, men, women and chill dren, all Davis boosters. On the steps | of the courthouse where Davis plead- ed his first case IS a lawyer, Samuel R. Bentley, president of the Chamber of Commerce, stood before a crowd that damned the street from curb to curb. and declared that Clarksburg re- ioiced In the honor that had come to 1er distinguished fellow-townsman. Other speakers reviewed MT. Davis career and one was cheered to the ,cho when the acclaimed MT. Davis s the next president of the United States"
 The demonstration continued far nto the night. Bonfres were lighted ,n neighboring hillsdes and the fire works display rivaled that of the re- ,ent Fourth of July celebration.
 The town was in the gala attire to- lay. All buildings in the downtown ection were decorated with flags and bunting as well as many houses in the esidental section. Among them was he Davis homestead where the Stars , nd Stripes appeared shortly after Lews of the Davis nomination was re- eived. .
 The boom for Davis as president, ad its inception at the San Francisco , four years ago. There the q Vest Virginia delegation boomed their z avorite son without success and re- lrned to the hills of West Virginia T esolved to keep the movement alive. Everywhere they went they talked o 'avis. In hotels, on railroad trains T nd in public and private places their 5 o-workers bent every energy to build d p sentiment. Long before the pre- t onventibn campaign of 1924 got un- c