The record-union., 1892-06-21
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
WASHINGTON, June Ex-Governor Nc
Kinley of Ohio, Chairman of the COM
mittee to notify the President of his re-
nomination, arrived here this morning.
The committee assembled in the parlor
OF the Ebbitt House, where the Governor
read the address which he proposed to
| deliver to the President. The address is
| brief, and was received with enthusiasm.
The committee has accepted an invitation
! from Col. Z. Shepard TO dinner to morrow
evening at the Manhattan Athletic Club,
New York. The Republican clubs of the
city of New y ork have invited the COM
mittee to be present at the mass meeting
! tomorrow evening. This invitation was
also accepted. The committee proceeded
| to the Executive Mansion about o clock.
Some 200 guests We're assembled in the
east room when the committee entered.
/ X few minutes later the President, ac-
conipanied by Secretary Foster and other
/ members Of the Cabinet, entered.
without any prellmlnarieS Governor
Mckinley made a speech notifying the
| President OF MS nomination. Ii was in
/ substance us follows:
President EeuTisot: This committee, repre-
| senting every state and Territory in the
! Union, are here to perform trust committed
| TO them by the National Republican ConVun-
lon, which convened az Minneapolis on June
|tIl, Oh Drlng hg You an Official notification Of
| your renoaIlnation as the Republican candi-
uate for President OF the United states. Your
nomination was but registering nv tha con-
ventiOn the viii OF Il ma orgt-? Of the Republi-
cans OF the United States and has been re-
! cclVed IN every quarter with profound salts
faction. Your administration has more than
Justlned your nomination iouC years ago, aad
! the confidence OF the people implied by your
| election. alter one o. the most careful sue
| cessful and brilliant administrations in our
! history, you received q denomination fur-
nishing an approval OF your work which
! must bring to YOU the Keenes5 qualification
Inc dlthcult ana embarrassing questions which
/ conIfontei your administration have been
met with ability, with haeiity 10 duty and
with II lotty patriotism which ill the Ameri.
can hearts with glowing pride.
We Oeg % manu- 10 Uu the platform of prin-
ciples unanimously adopted by the conven-
I Jon which placed you IL nomination. It is
! our American document OF protection, which
! snail serve the highest interests of American
! labor and American development: reciprOcity
which, While making world S market for our
( surplus products, SHALL not destroy American
! est money, which shall rightly measure labor
and the exchanges OF people and cheat no.
! body; honest elections, which are the true sit
! uation of public authority. The principles
constitute for the most part a platform of
I principles OF which you have alraitiy Y hy word
/ and deed given your earllo ost appeal and when
/ Sentative
| In conclusion, we sire to extend to Won
! our hearty congratulations and express our
qualification at the great honor paid you by
| Il denomination.
HARRISON ACCEPTS.
The President, accepting the nonina-
/ ton, said:
| Gentlemen Of tie Committee: When four
| years ago, ON the anniversary of the decara-
| tion OF National independence. committee
! designated by the Republican National Con
! vention held in Chicago came 20 my home i'm
! indianapolis TO notify me OF my nomination
| for the Presidency, my sense OF gratitude was
! forced into the far background by an over
| whelming sense of the responsibility of the
| leadership in a civil contest that involved so
much To my country ana ieilow-citizens. No
one so mucn rs realized that the strength OF
| q campaign must be found in ReDublicpD
| principles, and my hope was that nothing i'm
life or word Of mine might weaken the appeal
! of our American policies to the American
! heart. That appeal did not fail. A Republi-
can President and Nice-President and Repub-
| llcan Congress were chosen. The record has
been made, and we are now TO submit to the
! judgment OF q patriotic people. OF my own
relation to the great transactions In the lpgis
| latiOn ana administration when must he fine
! basis OF this Juagment, it does not become me
! 20 speak.
gratefully accept, sir the assurance given
! by the Republican State Conventions and by
the National Convention, through you. that
no char3e OF inaaequacy or delinquency to
| the prilc pie has been lodged against tho a.
I
ceSSiul WORK done by able heads of the eyecu
tive department and representatives abroad
l desire most cordially to acknowledge. Tac
work of the ttaty-Lrst Congress. in which YOU
sir bore such a conspicuous and useful Part
viii strongly and most benc1lcially influcuc,
national reciprocity fora generation to come
The general results of three years of ReDulj-
lican control have been gratifying. The home
market for farm production has been retained
and enlarged by the establishment OF great
manufacturing industries, while new markets
abroad OF large and increased value which
had been obs.iEately closed to as have been
opened 10 our meats and breadStufls by the
removal OF unjust discriminating restrictions
and by numerous reciprocal trade agreeIlt n "a
under Section of the Mckinley bin These
acts OF administration and legislation can
now fortunately be judge by their fruits In
1890 ii was conflict OF predictions; now cur
/ auVersarieS must ia e trade statistics and
prices current.
But it is not appropriate that should at
this time discuss these public questions |
| hope before long to be able by Iette. TO con
yey 10 yoa more formal accept2Rce OF tie
nomination which the National Republican
Convention has rendered 20 me- and 70 give
briefly my reasons !or adEcring to the declare
tion of principles adopted by The convention
and which you have 50 admirably sunmar-
lied.
win you accept, sir, for yourself and your
associates upon the committee, and Tor the
VIII lie body OF the great convention whose
delegates you are, my profound thanks Tor
tins great honor, and Will YOU sir. allow me
| to express my sincere appreciation OF the
gracious and cordial terms in whicn You have
conveyed this message.
The Presidents speech was received
with enthuS asm and hearty applause.
and ct the close the members of the com
mittee pressed forward and congratulated
1 him on his denomination. He shook
| hands cordially with each member. and
invited them TO luncheon. The party
proceeded TO the state dining-rooni. the
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