Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
GROVER ACCEPTS.
Officially Notified that He Has Been
Named for a Second
Term.
He Accepts, and Says He Will Be
Heard From Formally in Due
Time.
WAsHuNaroN. Lu,,e 81.

WASHINGTON, June 81.
The committee appointed by the st. Louis
convention to notify President Cleveland Of his
denomination, together with the members Of
tho National Democratic Committee, called
upon the President at the White House yester-
day afternoon. and formally notified him of his
nomination. Mrs. Cleveland and nearly all the
present.
Gen. Patrick A. Collins, Chairman of the
Notihcation Committee, addressed the President
"Nfr. Cleveland we come as q committe au.
thortzed and instructed by the National Demo.
cratic Convention. recently held ut st. Louis, to
Tor the office of President Of the United States
curing the next four years. It would i'll become
the occasion or your presence to express ct
length the fuli meaning and significance Of that
great assembly, It's expression will be found
ana heard elsewhere and otherwise from now till
that day in November when this free and in
w rsoTd their
to congratulate you upon this hearty and unani-
nous Endorsement Of your course as President
by the great historic party to which in all the
days Of your manhood you have belonged, and
TO congratulate the country upon the assured
continuance Of your wise, just, and patriotic ed
Mr.. Charles D. Jacobs of Kentucky read the
following letter of notification:
10 the Hon. Grover Cleveland, of New York:
SIR: The delegates to the National Democratic
tory OF our Union, having assembled in the city
OF St. Louis, on June 5, for the purpose of nomf-
mating candidates for the offices OF President and
Vice President of the United States, it has be-
come the honorable and pleasing duy of this
committee to formally announce to you that
without ballot, you were by reclamation chos-
en- as the standard-bearer Of the Democratic
party for the chief executiveship Of this country
ut the election to be held in November next.
Great as is such distinction under any cir
cumstances, it is the more hattering and pro-
found when it is remembered that you have
been selected as your own successor to an
Office the duties OF which, always onerous, have
been rendered of an extraordinarily
sensitive, difficult. and delicate nature because
Of a change of political parties and methods
after twenty-four years of uninterrupted
domination TGis exaltai ion is, if possible,
added to by the fact that the declaration of
principles based upon your national mes
sage to the United States relative to q
of the Government throws down the direct and
defiant challenge for an exacting scrutiny of the
administration of the executive power which
four years ago was committed to it's trust by the
election of Grover Cleveland President OF the
United States, and for the most searching in
quiry concerning its fidelity and devotion to the
pledges which then invited the suffrages of the
people,
IAN engrossed copy of that platform, adopted
without q dissenting voice. is here with rendered
to you. In conveying, sir, to you the RESPONSE
committee beg, individually and collectively, to
express the great pleasure which they have felt
at the results attending the National Convention
of the Democratic party, and to offer to you their
best wishes for official and personal success and
happiness