Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-22
MR.. REID IS NOTIFIED.
Officially Told of His Nomination for
the Vice Presidency.
he ATOWS HIS PARTY LOYALTY
And Feels Assured of the Republican Sue
cess at the Polls
SYMPATHY EXPRESSED FOR Mr.. BLAINE

NEW YORK, June 2l-The members Of
the committee appointed bv the Minneap.
oils convention to notify Mr.. Whitelaw Reid
of his nomination for the Vice Presidency
have been for several days gathering at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel in this city. This morn
ing the members of the committee took car.
riages at the hotel and proceeded to the
Grand Central Railroad station, where, at
1929 o'clock they proceeded in a train for
White Plains, from which place they were
taken to Ophir Farm, Mr.. Reid's country
residence, where they carried out the mis-
sion intrusted to them. They took lunch
with Mr.. Reid, and were his guests for the
remainder of the day until 4 o'clock, when
the train left on its return to New York.
The committee arrived at White Plains
about 11:l5 O'Clock, and proceeded at once
to Mr. Reid's residence. They were cor
daily received by Mr.. Reid, and at once
proceeded to the business of the day. Sena-
tor Dubois made the speech of notification.
The Speech of Notification.
"MR. REID-The National Republican
Convention, recently held in Minneapolis,
selected a representative from each State
and Territory from among its delegates to
notify you that the great Republican party
of the nation had selected you as its can
didate for Vice President of the United
States Speaking for them, it is now NY
pleasing duty to give you that formal mott
1cation.
This honor, one of the highest which
free and thoughtful people can bestow,
came to you unsought and with unanimity
l.
appreciate the patient and skilltul diplom-
acy oy which YOU opened the markets of
France 10 the product of the farmer. The
securing of market is the ultimate OBJ
ject of all nations in modern politics, and
YOUR success in that great field will COM
mand foT you the hearty approval of the
producers of the United States We be-
lieve that the people will sustain Repub-
lican principles, will indorse the person.
ality of our standard bearers and that the
wisdom of our action at Minneapolis will
be fully demonstrated by your triumphant
election at the polls in November next"
Mr. Reid Makes a Reply
Mr.. Reid replied in the following terms:
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen:
"Your visit at my home and this formal
statement sinks deep on my mind the impress
sion which the known act of the convention
had already produced. The occasion is too
great for the expression of merely personal
feelings. Even nv natural and heartfelt
sense of gratitude for the confidence shown
and the high trust devolved seems in this
case too unimportant to those you represent
for more than word. The party which
has guided this country on its path of pros
perity with but four years interval since
1850 gives official notice through its duly
authorized representatives in A independent
States and five Territories of its choice for
the second Office within the gift of 65, ,000,-
600 of ireemen, who cover a continent and
are soon also to possess more on the seas
"a profound sense of responsibility and q
most earnest desire to discharge the trust
YOU have reposed, to the satisfaction of
those you now represent and to be success
1ul, for the best interests of the country
afterward, are the overmastering emotions
of the hour. Not having sought the great
honor you confer as you have Justly stated,
am the more prompt in saving that as a
citizen and Republican shall not shrink
from the duty you impose. There will be
a more convenient opportunity for such ex-
preston of political convictions as may be
thought appropriate to the times and to the
actual issues
He ADOPTS the Platform in Full.
''But having already carefully considered
the statement OF our party principles, put
forth by your convention, may say at
once that l accept and adopt them in full
They are the principles and the party under
the sway of which the country has attained
its phenomenal growth and prosperity
under which the plain people have ruled;
labor has been freed, honored and better
rewarded than elsewhere; the largest exam
pie of equality before the law the world
has yet seen has been secured and educa-
tion, morality and the general welfare have
been promoted To reject these principles
and this party would be to indict the g1ori-
Gus history of the nation for almost the
past third of a century.
You find a natural leader in the eminent
public servant, the substantial results of
whose wise and faithful administration fur
nish such inspiration for the canvass
had expected to find associated with him
my distinguished friend who now adorns
the Office OF Vice President As the dele
CATION of my State and with it the repre-
sentatives of the party at large have thought
1t politically wise to adhere to the doctrine
of rotation in Office it gives me the right to
claim not merely the earnest support of
united party, of which we are sure, but the
best counsel and the most watchful personal
leaders without exception, to the end that
this great Commonwealth may again throw
its decisive vote as it did four years ago and
indlsputably can do again on the Republi-
can side.
Sympathy Expressed for Blaine.
VI cannot suppress on this occasion, in
which he would have taken such cordial
interest, one word of afectionate recollec-
tiOn for my friend in so many Presidential
campaigns, the great statesman whose pres
ent cruel bereavement, following hard upon
two similar blows, has touched the tenderest
sympathy of all, not merely of his political
associates, but of both parties and of the
whole country.
my State, and / think I may venture to
add my profession. will appreciate the man
ner in which this nomination has been
made and announced, deriving an added
grace as it does from the unanimous vote
from this body of representative men from
every section of the country.
'The political sky is bright with promise.
1t seems Republican year; and, invoking
the favor OF Almighty God upon a cause
which we profoundly believe just, we may
courageously face the contest with the con-
fdent hope of victory at the end"
No Barbarous Method