The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-07-10
M'KlNLEY Is TOLD
THAT HE HAS RECEIVED TILE NOM.
NATION FOR PRESIDENT.

The COMMITTEES ON Notification Pee.
forms Its Duties at Cunton-Chais.
man Thurston Makes the Notiflca-
tion Speech and Maj. Mckinley
Rcplies-Lnrge Crowd IL Present.
Canton, Ohio, July 1.-The notlfica-
tiOn committee reached here at 11:aJ.
Judges G. E. Baldwin. William, r. Day
and Henry A. Wise were ut tile depot
to meet the party with decorated tally
hos and carriages. The parade was or
ganized. the Grand Army band and the
citizens troop Of cavalry leading the
vehicles occupied by the guests. Citi-
NI,s fell in behind aud an enormous
crowd quickly gathered about the Atc-
Finley home. The crowd was enor.
nous and the cheering was incessant.
Maj. Mckinley was cheered again and
again when he appeared. The ccre-
monies occurred on the lawn in front
of Mr.. McKinley's house.
Formally Notified.
Chairman Thurston addressed Maj. Nc.
Einley us follows:
Gov. Mckinley: We are here to perform
the pleasant duty assigned us by the Re-
sembled in st. Louis. that Of formally no.
Trying you Of your nomination as the can
didate Of the Republican party for presi-
dent Of the United States. We respectfully
request your acceptance OF this nomination
and your approval Of the declaration OF
principles adopted by the convention.
We assure you that you are the unani-
nous choice Of q united party. and your
candidacy will be Immediately accepted by
the country as IN absolute guaranty of
Republican success. Your nomination has
been made in obedience to a popular de-
mand. whose universally and spontaneity
attest the affection and confidence Of the
plain people of the United States. BY COM
mon consent you are their champion. Their
mighty uprising in your behalf emphasizes
their conversion to the cardinal principles
OF protection and reciprocity as best ex-
emplified In that splendid congressional act
which justly bears your name. Under 1t
this nation advanced to- the very cumina:
ton OF prosperity far SURPRISING that of
oil other peoples and all other times;
prosperity shared in by all sections, all
interests. and all classes; by capital and
labor; by producer and consumer; a pros.
perity SO happily in harmony with the &C.
MUS of popular government that Its
choicest blessings were most widely dis
tributed among the lowlicst toilers and the
humblest homes.
In 1892. your country, rnmindful of your
solemn warnings returned that party to
power which reiterated its everlasting op-
position to protective tariff and demanded
the repeal of the Mckinley act. They
sowed the wind. They reaped the whiri-
wind. The sufferings and losses and dis
asters to the American people from four
years Of Democratic tariff are vastly
greater than those which came to them
from four years Of civil war. Out of it
all one great good remains Those who
the fulhllment of your prophecies, and
even as the scourged and repentant Israel
ties abjured their stupid idols and re.
sumed unquestioning allegiance to Moses
and Moses God, so now your countrymen,
shamed OF their errors. turn to you and to
those glorious principles for which you
stand, In the full belief that your candidacy
and the Republican platform mean that the
end Of the wilderness has come anu the
promised land of American prosperity is
again to them an insured inheritance.
But your nomination means mo1e than
the endorsement of protective tariff Of
reciprocity, Of sound money aud OF honest
finance, for oil of which you have SO stead
lastly stood. 1t means an endorsement Of
your heroic youth; your fruitful years of
arduous public service; your sterling pa-
triotism; your stalwart Americanism; your
Christian character, and the purity, fidelity
and simplicity Of your private life. In all
these things you are the typical American;
fos oil these things you IRE the chosen
leader of the people. Godgive you strength
to bear the honors and meet the duties of
that great Office for which you are now
nominated and to which you will be elected,
that your administration will enhance the
dignity and power and glory Of this repub'
lie, and secure the safety, welfare and hap
piness of Its liberty-loving people.
Mckinley RepliesS
AS Mr.. Mckinley stepped forward to re-
ply he was given an ovation. When the
cheering ceased he spoke as follows:
Senator Thurston and Gentlemen Of the
Notification Committee of the Republican
their presidential cand' date, by great
party convention representing so vast
number Of people Of the United
States. is a most distinguished honor,
for which would not conceal my
high appreciation, although deeply sensible
OF the great responsibilities Of the
trust. and my Inability to bear them with
out the generous and constant support Of
my fellow.countrymen. Great MS is the
honor conferred. equally arduous and in,.
portant Is the duty imposed. and in ac-
cepting the one assume the other. relying
upon the patriotic devotion Of the people
to the best interests Of our beloved conn.
try, and the sustaining care and aid Of Him
without whose support all we do is empty
and vain. Should the people ratify the
choice of the great convention for which
you speak. my only aim will he to pro.
mote the public good, which in America Is
always the good Of the greatest number
the honor Of our country, and the welfare
Of the people.
The questions to be settled in the national
contest this year are as serious and i'm.
portant as any Of the great governmental
problems that have confronted us in the
past quarter Of century. They command
our sober judgment and a settlement free
from partisan prejudice and passion, bene.
hcial to ourselves and betting the honor
| and grandeur Of the republic. They touch
| every interest Of our common country.
Our industrial supremacy. our productive
capacity. our business and commercial pros.
perity. our labor and its rewards, our ma.
tional credit and currency. our proud finan.
c!al honesty and our splendid free citizen.
:hip-the birthright of every man-are all
Involved In the pending campaign, and
thus every home in the land Is directly and
Intimately connected with their proper set.
Element. Great are the issues involved in
the coming election and eager and earnest
| the people for the rights and determino