San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-05
ghe 1ai1y Eight.
Office No. 4 East Commerce Street.
HARRISON NOTIFIED.

In reply to the committee who on
yesterday formally notified him of his
nomination, Gen. Harrison made the
following modest and direct reply, re-
serving for future occasion more
formal acceptance of the honor ten
dered:
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of
the Committee The official notice
which you have brought of the nomi-
nation conferred upon me by the re-
publican national convention recently
in Session at Chicago, excites emotions
of a profound, though of somewhat
confli citing character. That after full
deliberation and free consultation the
representatives of the republican
party of the United States should
have concluded that the great princi-
pies enunciated in the platform adOp-
ted by the conven ton could be in some
measure confided to my care is an
honor of which am deeply sensible
and for which 1 am very grateful. 1
do not assume or believe that this
choice implies that the convention
found in me any pre-eminent fitness
or exceptional fidelity to the princi-
Piles of government to which we are
mutually pledged. My satisfaction
with the result would be altogether
spoiled if that result had been reached
by any unworthy method or by dis
paragement of the more eminent men
who divided with me the suffrages of
the convention. L accept the nomination
with so deep sense of the dignity of the
office and of the gravity of its duties
and responsibilities as altogether to
exclude any feeling of exultation or
pride. The principles of government
and the practices in administration
upon which the issues are now for
tunately so clearly made, and which
are so important in their relations to
national and to individual prosperity
that we may expect an unusual popu-
lar interest in the campaign. Relying
wholly on the considerable judgment
of our fellow citizens and the gracious
favor of God, we will confidently sub
NIT our cause to the arbitration of
free ballot.
1.-THE day you have chosen for this
visit suggests no thoughts that are
not in harmony with the occasion.
The republican party has walked in
the light of the declaration of indie
pendcnce. 1t has lifted the shaft of
patriotism upon the foundation laid at
Bunker Hill. 1t has made the more
perfect union secure by making all
men free. Washington and Lincoln,
Yorktown and AppomattOX, the dec
laration of independence and the pro-
clamation Of emancipation are natur-
ally and worthily associated in our
thoughts today. AS soon as may be
possible, l shall by letter commune
cate to your chairman a more formal
acceptance of the nomination, but it
may be proper now for me to say that
/ have already examined the platform
with some care, and that it's declara-
tons, to some of which your chair
man has alluded, are in harmony
with my views.
1t gives me pleasure, gentlemen, to
receive you in my home, and to thank
you for the cordial manner in which
you have conveyed your official mes
sage"
A unique feature Of the occasion was
the procession of hackmen white and
colored, who without previous notice
being given of their intention marched
into the hall and rendered their con-
CALCULATIONS to TIN nominee, who, on
being informed of their presence
came out and greeted them cordially.
He evidently appreciated the atten-
ton. One hundred veterans of the old
Tippecanoe & Tyler Times also called
up Gen. Harrison, carrying the old
banner of the campaign of 1910, and