Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-21
NEWS FOR HARRISON.
The President Is 4pprised of His
Nomination by a Committee,
WHOSE SPOKESMAN is M'KINLEY.
TelicitOus Remarks Accompany the Tender
and IFS Acceptance.
psIzEEL SPEAKS IN GOTHAM TONIGHT

tee to notify the President of his renomi-
nation, arrived in this city this morning
The Governor proceeded at once to the Red
Parlor of the Ebbett House, where the other
members of the committee had assembled
to await his arrival. He was warmly
greeted as he entered the room, and after
shaking hands with many of his friends he
called the committee to order.
The Governor said that, if the committee
desired it, be would read to them the ad-
dress which he would deliver to the Presi-
dent The address was brief and was re-
ceived with enthusiastic applause, Gov
ernor Mckinley called to the Chair Colonel
Elliott L. Shepard, who invited the men,
bers of the committee to be his guests a: a
dinner to be given by him in their honor
tomorrow evening at the Manhattan Ath-
letic 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 a mass meeting to be held
at Carnegie Music Hall tomorrow evening
At this meeting addresses will be made by
Governor Mckinley, Representatives J. c.
Burrows Of Michigan, and Dalzell, of Penn
sylvania.
The Notification Committee Received.
At about / o'clock the committee pro-
ceeded to the Executive Mansion There
were' about 200 guests assembled in the
simple vet beautifully decorated East Room
of the White House, when at l o'clock the
Notification Committee entered and ranged
themselves in a semi-circle, Governor Nc
Kinley being the keystone of the arch. A
few moments later the President, leaning
on the arm of Secretary Foster, and fol-
lowed by the other members OF his Cabinet
entered, and, without any preliminaries
Governor Mckinley made his brief speech,
officially notifying the President of his
denomination. He spoke as follows:
President HARRISON - This committee,
representing every State and Territory i'll
the Union, are here to perform the trust
committed TO them by the Republican Ma
tionai Convention, which convened at
Minneapolis on June 4, 1892, OF bringing you
official notification of your nomination as
the Republican candidate for President of
the United states.
We need hardly assure You of the pleas
ure it gives US TO convey this message from
the Republicans OF the country to this
chosen leader. Your nomination was but
the registering by the convention OF the Will
OF the majority o: the Republicans of the
United States. and has been received in
every quarter with profound satisfaction.
In lSs9, you were nominated after some
what prolonged struggle upon platform
which declared with clearness the purposes
and policies OF the party intrusted with
power, and upon that platform you were
elected President.
Election Promises Are Fulfilled.
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
rt If
there has been failure to embody into law
anyone of these purposes or policies, it has
been no fault of yours.
Your administra tion has more than iusti-
fed your nomination four years ago and the
confidence of the people implied by your
election After one of the most careful,
successful and brilliant administrations in
our history, you received denomination,
furnishing an approval of your work, which
must bring to YOU the keeneSt qualification
To be nominated for the second term upon
the merits of his admin istr-l tion is the high
est diStin ction which can come to an Ameri-
can President. Tie difficult and enbarras I
sing questions which confronted your ad- !
ministration have been met with ar ability, !
with a fidelity TO duty and with a lofty |
patriotism which fill American hearts with |
glowing pride Your domestic policy has |
been wise, broad and stateSmanlike: your |
foreign policy firm, Just and truly American. |
They both have won the colEmendation of |
the thoughtful and conservative, and the |
confidence OF NOut cOuntrN10en, irrespective |
OF party, and will, we believe, insure your |
triumphant election in November. We beg |
to hand to You the platform OF principles |
unanimously adopted by the convention |
which placed you in nomination. 1t is an |
American document |
The Republican Platform Summarized.
Protection, which shall serve the highest |
interests of American labor and American |
development: reciprocity, which, while |
seeking the worlds markets for our surplus |
products, shall not destroy American wages |
nor surrender American markets for prod |
ucts which can be made at home; honest |
money, which shall rightly measure the |
labor and exchanges of the people and |
cheat nobody: honest elections, which are |
the true foundation of all public authority. |
These principles constitute for the most |
part the platform-principles to which Won |
have already by word and deed given your |
earnest approval. and of which YOU stand !
to-day the exponent and representative. !
Other matters treated of in the platform |
will have Your careful consideration. am |
hidden by my associates, who come from |
every section of the nation, TO assure you of /
the cordial and hearty support OF a har- |
mOnious and united Republican party.
In conclusion, We desire to extend to you |
our personal congratulations and to express |
our qualification at the rare honor paid you |
by a denomination, with a firm faith that |
the dest!nies of this great people will be con- |
fided TO your care and keeping for another |
four years.
The address was delivered slowly, and at |
the beginning in sucn low tone that it was |
hardly audible; but the Governors voice |
strengthened as he proceeded. He was |
warmly applauded at its close. The Presi- !
dent, in accepting the denomination, said:
President Hnrrison'S Mods. Po.pnns..
Governor Mckinley and Gentlemen of the Com 4
mIttee:
When, four years ago, on the anniversary |
of the Declaration of our National Indepeud-
ence, committee designated by the Republi
can National Convention held in Chicago
came to my home in indianapolis to notify
me of my nomination for the Presidency, |
D. sense of gratitude, great as it was was
forced into the far background by an over
Whelming sense OF the responsibility of |
leadership in civil contest that involved SO |
much to my country and to my fel-
much would be .ound when the
record ola quiet life had been brought un-
der the strong light OF public criticism, to
enthuse my party followers, or upon which
an assurance of adequacy for the highest
civil affairs might be rested No one so
much a. 1 realized that the strength of the
campaign must be found in Republican
principles, and my hope was that nothing i'll
life or word o. mine might weaken the appeal |
Of our American policies to the American
heart That appeal does not sfaiL A Re-
publican President and Vice President ana
a Republican Congress were chosen.
The record has been made and we are
now to submit it to the Judgment OF q Datri-
otic people or my own relation to the
great transactions in legislation and in ad-
miuistGation, which must be the basis of
this Judgment, 1t does not become me to
speak.
! gratefully accept sir, the assurance
given by the Republican state conventions
and by the National Convention, through
yoI, that no charge of inadequacy or delin-
Quency to principle has been lodged against
the administration. The faithful and highly
successful work done by the able heads of