Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-08
Levi z. Morton Notified

Levi p. Morton Notified.
New NoRK, July Tine members of the
committee TO officially notify Levi p. Morton
OF his nomination for the vice presid ency
were astir early this morning. Judge
Estee of California, chairman Of the com
mittee, was receiving visitors in Murray Hill
hotel at o'clock. Secretary Dougherty
worked most Of the night and looked wearied
this morning. He went TO the depot at {
o'clock, and when he returned to the com
mittee parlor he found half a dozen of the
delegates awaiting him. As they came in
Captain Dougherty had each affix his sigma
ture TO the address which will be presented
TO Morton. The document is very brief and
general in its terms, filing less than a page
oil parchment paper. Delegates Hendricks,
Root and Carson, tho colored contingent, did
not meet the party at the hotel and were not
at the depot when the committee entered the
car at half past 10 o'clock. Ex-Governor
Charles Foster, of Ohio, did not accompany
the committee. The other gentlemen com
posing the committee all left, as well as sub,
stitutes from other states.
In the parlor car Marietta, occupied by the
committee, Secretary Doughtery soon after
starting convened the committee for a meet
ing on ways and means, and each member of
the committee then deposited with the sec
retary his pro rata share of the expense of
transportation. The time of the trip was
consumed in discussing the political situa-
tion.
Upon the arrival of the train at RhinebeclS
the notification committee was met at the
depot by the local committee and amid
cheering and the booming of cannon, es-
cortcd TO Huntington Place, where Mr..
Morton is living. Mr.. Morton, looking in
splendid health, stood in the center of his
drawing room and received the committee.
Mrs. Morton. elegantly attircd, stood beside
her husband during the notification cere-
mony. Mrs. Morton's mother, Mrs Street,
and her brother. w. l.. Street, and a number
of friends of the family were grouped IN the
rear. The speeches were short and to the
point. Chairman Estee, clad in black
frock coat and wearing Harrison and
Morton badge, was ushered into the drawing
room and advanced within few feet of Mr.
Morton. Immediately behind came the
other members of the committee. Mr.. Estee
then delivered the following address:
1.-The national convention of the republican
party, recently assembled at Chicago, nom-
mated as its candidate for president General
Harrison, and with equal unanimity selected
you as its nominee for vice president. BY
order of that convention we were appointed
a committee to notify its nominees of their
selection This pleasant duty has been per
formed in giving General Harrison, your as
sociate upon the ticket, that notification. It
only remains for us 10 discharge the further
duty conferred upon us by this official notice
to yon. The country has already passed
judgment upon your selection, and it has met
such universal approval that il is only left
for this committee to give its own expression
of their high approval of your own. personal
qualities as we'll as their confidence in your
eminent fitness for the position to which the
deliberate Judgment of the convention as
signed you. In conclusion we believe that
this notification to you will not be as mean
ingless formality, but that your nomination
will result in your triumphal clection.n
Mr. Morton replied as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Com
mittee: l am profoundly sensible of the
high honor that has been conferred on me by
the national republican convention recently
in session mt Chicago, and thank you gentle
men for the courteous and complimentary
terms in which YOU have officially announced
my nomination as the candidate of the repub-
lican party for the vice presidency | am
also deeply sensible of the honor conferred
upon the state of New York in the selection
of a citizen of the state to be one of the
standard bearers in the approaching peace
full conflict Of the two great political parties
OF the country for supremacy in govern
| mental control. New York represents to a
large degree the business interests of all
those ever-growing and .wIder.spreadng
communities of varied interests and indus
tries which it is the mission of the republi-
can party to foster and protect. The plat
form, so wisely adopted at Chicago, has this
mission boldlyin view, and by its enuncia-
tion of these principles makes the issue clear
and disttncts. | accept the position rendered
| ored representatives, and will in due time
address to you, Mr. Chairman, an official
communication TO that effect.
OAfter MIR. Morton had finished speaking
he invited the visitors to luncheon, which
ready to be served