Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1888-07-06
The Notification Committee Calls on
General Harrison and He For
mally Accepts. f
The Committee Gives Expression to
American Sentiments and Harri-
son an American Reply.
A Pleasant Fourth of July for In
diana's Illustrious Citizen, Sol
der and Statesman.
The Notification.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 4.-The notification
committee representing the late republican
national convention to-day officially in
formed General Harrison of his nomina-
tion as the candidate of the republican
party for the Office of president. Hon. NJ.
NJ. Estee OF California, late chairman of
the republican convention, and Charles w.
Cllsbee acted as secretaries of the commit
tee. Thirty-three members of the commit
tee were present. A crowd of between two
and three hundred people stood gazing be-
fore General Harrison's house while the
committee alighted and headed by Chair
man Estee and Governor Foster entered
the house in marching order. Mr.. Russell
Harrison and Capt. NJ. G McLain met
the delegation at the door and escorted
them through the hall into the parlor, be-
ing the center room between the drawing
room and the library. In the latter room
and in the hallway were crowd of the
friends and neighbors of General Harrison,
including many ladies. The members of
the committe formed themselves into
seml-clrcle around the parlor, which was
tastefully decorated conspicuous about the
mantle being very antique portrait of
"Old Tippecanoe." General Harrison
looked pale and careworn, his expression
being one of deep seriousness.
CHAIRMAN EsTEE STEPPED FORWARD
and said: General Harrison: We are
commissioned by the national republican
convention to officially notify you of your
nomination as the republican candidate
for president of the United States. In do
ing this we may be permitted to remind
you that your selection met the hearty ap-
proval Of the whole convention. Nor was
your nomination due to accident or the re-
suit of hasty OF inconsidarate deliberation.
1t indicated rather that you possessed in a
more eminent degree those peculiar quail
ties which commended you to the peoples
favor: The platform adopted by the ma
tl0nal republican convention marks out
with clearness and precision the creed Of
the party. The American system of pro-
lection to American labor, and American
products in American markets: the sacred
ness and purity of the ballot; the protec-
tl0n OF American citizens, native and
adopted, at home and abroad, on land and
sea; the prohibition of Cinese immigration;
the building up Of our navy; the erection
the Old soldiers and sailors of the republic
are questions which occupy conspicuous
places in our platform"
GENERAL HARRISON
adjusted his nose glasses and drawing his
manuscript from his bosom read his reply
in full rich voice and with degree of
seriousness and earnestness that visibly
impressed everyone who heard him. He
said: "Mr. Chairman and Gentleman of the
Committees: The official notice which you
have brought of the nomination conferred
upon me by the republican national con-
vention, recently in session at Chicago, ex-
cites emotions of a profound though of a
somewhat conflicting character. That at
ter full deliberation and free consultation
the representatives of the republican party
OF the United States should have concluded
that the great principles enunciated in the
platform adopted by the convention could
be in some measure safely confided to my
care is an honor OF which am deeply SEN
sible and for which am very grateful. /
do not assume or believe that this choice
implies that the convention found in me
any pre-eminent fitness or exceptional
fidelity to the principles of government to
which we are mutually pledged. Ny salts
faction at the result would be altogether
spoiled if that result had been reached by
any unworthy methods or by disparage-
ment of the more eminent who divided
with me the suffrages of the convention.
I ACCEPT THE NOMINATION
with so deep sense of the dignity of the
Office and of the gravity of its duties and
responsibilities as altogether 10 exclude
any feeling of exultation or pride. The
principles of government and the practices
in the administration upon which issues
are now fortunately so clearly made are SO
important in their relations to the national
and to individual prosperity that we may
expect an unusual popular interest in the
campaign. Relying wholly upon the con
siderate judgment of our fellow citizens
and the gracious favor of God, we will con-
fdently submit our cause to a free ballot
The day you have chosen for this visit sug.
gests no thoughts that are not in harmony
with the occasion. The. republican party
has walked in the light of the Declaration
of Independence It has lifted the shaft
of patriotism upon the foundation laid al
Bunker Hill. It has made the more perfect
union secure by
ss MAKING ALL MEN FREE.
Washington and Lincoln, Yorktown and
Appomattox, the Declaration of Inde