The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-21
THE PRESIDENT NOTIFIED.
Told Of His Nomination by the FL.
oquent Mckinley.
MR.. HARRISON'S REPLY TO THE
OHIO GOVERNORS WORDS.

The Ceremony Took Place in the Famous
East Room at the White House, Where
the Committee of Notification and Two
Hundred Guests Were Gathered-An
Interesting Five Minutes to Republi-
cans Everywhere.
WASHINGTON, June Ex-Governor Nc
Kinley of Ohio, chairman of the COM
mittee to notify the President of his re-
nomination, arrived in this city on the
train arriving at 11.50, and Immediately
drove to his hotel, where he
arrived at 12.1 Is. The governor proceeded
at once to the red parlor of the Ebbitt
House, where the other members of the
committee had assembled to await his ar
rival. He was warmly greeted as he en-
tered the room, and after shaking hands
with many of his friends he called the
committee to order and requested all
persons not members of the committee
to retire. The governor then said that
it the committee desired it, he would
read to them the address which he would
deliver to the President. The address
was brief, and was received with enthu-
siastic applause. Governor Mckinley
called to the chair Colonel Elliot F.
Shepard, who invited the members of
the committee to be his guests at din
ner to be given by him in their honor at
6 O'Clock tomorrow evening, at the Man
haitian Athletic Club, New York. This
invitation was accepted, as was also the
invitation of the Republican Club of the
city of New York to be present at the
mass meeting to be held at Carnegie
Music Hall tomorrow evening.
At about o'clock the committee pro-
ceeded to the Executive Mansion. There
were about 200 guests assembled in the
simply yet beautifully decorated east
room of the White House when at l o.
clock the notification committee entered
by the west door and ranged themselves
in semi-circle, Governor Mckinley be-
ing the keystone of the arch. A few
moments later the President, leaning on
the arm of Secretary Foster, and follow
ed by the other members of his cabinet,
entered, and without any preliminaries
Gov. Mckinley delivered the following
speech, notifying the President of his
denomination:
Address of Gov. Mckinley.
President Harrison:-This committee,
representing every state and territory in
the Union, are here to perform the trust
committed to them by the National
Republican Convention which convened
at Minneapolis on June 7, 1892, of bring
ing you official notification of your
nomination as the Republican candidate
for President of the United States. We
need hardly assure you of the pleasure
1T gives us to convey this message from
the Republicans of the country to their
chosen leader. Your nomination was
but the registering by the convention of
the will of the majority of the Republi-
cans of the United States, and had been
received in every quarter with profound
satisfaction
In 1888 you were nominated, after a
somewhat prolonged struggle, upon a
platform which declared with clearness
the purposes and policies of the party if
entrusted with power, and upon that
platform you were elected President.
You have had the good fortune to witness
the execution of most of those purposes
and policies during the administration
OF which you have been the head and in
which you have borne a most conspicu-
embody into law any one of those pur-
poses or policies, it has been no fault of
yours.
Your administration has more than
justified your nomination four wears ago.
and the confidence of the people i'm
piled by your election. After one of the
most careful, successful and brilliant ad-
ministrations in our history, you receive
denomination, furnishing to you the
keenest qualification To be nominated
for second term upon the merits of his
administration, is the highest distinction
which can come to an American Presi-
dent. The difficult and embarrassing
questions which confronted your admin
istration have been met with an ability.
with fidelity to duty and with lofty
patriotism which fill the American
heart with loving pride. Your domes-
tic policy has been wise, broad and
statesmanlike; your foreign policy firm,
just and truly American.
These have won the commendation of
the thoughtful and conservative, and the
confidence of your countrymen irrespect-
your triumphant election in November.
We beg to hand to you the platform of
principles unanimously adopted by the
convention which places you in nomina-
ton. 1t is an American document. Pro-
lection, which will serve the highest in
terests of American labor and American
development; reciprocity, which, while
seeking the worlds markets for our sur
plus products shall not destroy American
wages or surrender American markets
for products which can be made at home:
money, which shall rightly measure the
labor and exchange of the people, and
cheat nobody; honest elections, which
are the true foundation of all public au-
thority-these principles constitute for
the most part the platform-principle to
which you have already by word and
deed given your earnest approval, and of
which you stand today the exponent and
representative. Other matters treated of
in the platform will have your careful
consideration.
Response of President Harrison.
The President, in accepting the re-
nomination, said:
Gouernor Mckinley and Gentlemen of the
Committee:
When four years ago, on the anniver-
co Of tI,o Il &c