Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-07-11
TOLDMORTON THE NEWS
The Notification Committee Waits
Upon Him This Afternoon.
INFORMED OF HIS NOMINATION
Chairman Estee Delivers the Address
Detailing the Action of the National
Convention at Chicago-Mr. Nor
toms Reply-His Letter
of Acceptance.

New YORK, July THE members OF
the committee, to officially notify Levi
P. Morton of his nomination for the
vice-presidency, were astlr early this
morning. Judge M. NJ. Estee, of Cali
fornia, chairman of the committee, was
receiving visitors in parlor of the
Murray Hill Hotel at 9 o'clock. Secre-
tary Dougherty worked most of the
night and looked wearied this
morning. He went to the Grand
and when he returned to the committee
parlor he found half dozen of the
delegates awaiting him. AS they
strolled in Capt. Dougherty had each al
fix his signature to the address which
will be presented to Mr.. Morton. The
document is very brief and general in
its terms, filling less than single page
of parchment paper. Delegates Hen
bricks, Root and Carson, the col
ored contingent, did not meet
the party at the hotel and were
not at the depot when the committee
entered the special drawing room car at
Foster, of Ohio, did not accompany the
committee. The other gentlemen COM
posing the committee all cleft substi-
tutes in their place. The delegates will
return on the o. clock train this after
noon and many will remain In town un-
til Thursday of next week. Chairman
Estee will spend next week at Long
Branch.
The parlor car Marietta, occupied by
the committee, was attached to the New
York Central express train that left the
Grand Central Depot at 1920 o clock this
morning. Soon after starting, Secretary
&bo Co
q meeting on ways and means, and each
member of the committee then deposit
ed with the secretary his pro rata share
of the expense of transportation. The
time of the trip was consumed in dis
cussing the political situation.
At Rhinebeck the committee was met
by local committee and amid cheering
and booming of cannon escorted to
Huntington Place, where Mr.. Morton is
living.
Mr.. Morton arrayed in black clothes
and looking in splendid health, stood
In the center of his drawing room and
handsome and elegantly atrired, stood
beside her husband during the
notification ceremony. Mrs. Nor
toms mother, Mrs. Street. and
her brother, w. L. Street, and a
humber of friends of the family, were
grouped in the rear. The speeches were
short and to the point. Chairman Estee,
clad in a black frock coat, wearing a
Harrison and Morton badge, was ush
cred into the drawing-room snd ad-
vanced to within few feet of Mr.. Nor
ton. Immediately behind came the
other members of the committee. Mr..
Estee then delivered the address as fol-
lows:
''The national convention of the Re-
publican party recently assembled in
Chicago, nominated rs its candidate for
president Gen. Harrison, and with equal
unanimlty selected you as its nominee
for vice-president. By order of that
convention we were appointed COM
mittee to notify its nominees of their
selection. This pleasant duty has
been IN part performed In
giving GEN. Harrison, your associate up
on the ticket, that notification. 1t only
remains for us to discharge the further
duty conferred upon us, by this official
notice to you. The country has already
passed judgment upon your selection,
and it has met such universal approval
that it is only left this committee to add
its own expression Of their high appre
citation of your own personal qualities,
as well as their confidence in your emf
nent fitness for the position to which
the deliberate judgment of the conven-
ton assigned you. In conclusion, we
believe that this notification to you will
not be meaningless formality, but that
your nomination will result in tri-
umphant election"
Mr. Morton replied as follows:
'sMR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF
THE COMMITTEE: | am profoundly sensi-
BILE of the high honor which has been
conferred upon me by the National
Republican Convention recently in ses-
sion at Chicago, and thank you, gentle
men, for the courteous and compliment
tarv terms in which you have officially
announced my nomination as the can
di date ofthe Republican party for the
presidency. am also deeply sem
sible of the honor conferred upon me
state of New York in the selection of a
citizen of this state as one of the stand
ard bearers in the approaching peace
full conflict of the two great political
parties Of the country for supremacy in
governmental control. New York rep
resents to large degree the business
Interests of all those ever-growing and
wider spreading communities of varied
interests and industries which it is the
mission Of the Republican party to fos-
ter and protect. The platform so wisely
adopted at Chicago has this mission
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these principles makes the issue clear
and distinct. I accept the position
rendered by the convention, of which
you are the honored representatives
and will in due time address TO you,
Mr.. Chairman, an official communica-
ton to that effect"
After Mr.. Morton had finished speak
ing ne invited his visitors TO luncheon,
which was ready to be served on the
balcony at the south side Of the house.
The view from the balcony is a beautiful
one. Rich wooded land extends as far as
the eye can see, and at the bottom of q
valley brook bubbles along. In the
distance the Fiskhil Mountains stand in
prominence. Mr.. Estee gave a toast,
S.The Next VicePresident, to which
Mr.. Morton gracefully replied. The
party then re-entered their carriages
and were driven to Ellerslie, where
they had a delightful time inspecting
Mr.. Morton's new park, and will return