The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-07-01
NOW He KNOWS IT.
Mckinley Officially Notified Of
His Nomination.
A FORMALITY AT CANTON.
Committee Headed by Senator Thurs
ton, Visits the Candidate.
At His Home-McK cKinley Accepts the Dis
tinguished Honor in u Lengthy
Speech Approving the Platform
Adopted at st. Louis.
A FORMALITY AT CANTON,

lected at the St. Louis convention to
convey to Maj. Mckinley the official
notification of his nomination, arrived
in Canton on special train from Cleve-
land at 11:30 o'clock Monday morning.
The members of the committee were
met at the station here by a reception
composed of some OF the
foremost citizens of Canton, and were
driven in open carriages to Maj. Nc
Kinley's residence, accompanied by
mounted escort. The preparations at
Maj. McKinley's were simple Seven
ty-fve chairs were placed on the front
lawn under the trees and facing the
house. On the rear lawn a large tent
was erected and in it was long table
on which covers were laid for hun
dred guests,
Maj. Mckinley received the men,
bers of the committee on the veranda,
The streets about the house were filled
with men, women and children. The
crowd surged in at the gates and
pressed close up to the chairs where
they sat.
The last time Maj. Mckinley saw
presidential candidate notified of his
nomination was four years ago, in
Washington. The scene of the action
was the White House. Benjamin Har-
rison was the candidate and Mckinley
made the speech of notification. Har-
rison, doomed to crushing defeat, stood
in the spacious East room, surrounded
by his cabinet and concourse of dis
tinguished people was present.
1t was ten minutes past II when the
notification committee reached Maj.
McKinley's house. Mrs. Mckinley and
the majors mother occupied chairs
near him on the vcranda. His brothers
family and his nieces were close about
him. The chairs back of the notiica-
tion committee were filed by ladies of
Canton, Columbus and Cleveland whose
husbands are prominent in business
and public affairs.
Frank Hiscock, Senator Thurston,
Mark Hanna and C. N. Fairbanks oc-
cupied the first carriage. They were
greeted with tremendous cheers. Maj
Mckinley met them outside the gate
as they alighted from the carriage, and
shook hands. Senator Thurston was
in excellent voice. His tones were as
clear and commanding and far-reaca-
ing as they were in the St. Louis con-
ventien hall His speech was received
with much enthusiasm and applause.
He said:
Wemre here to perform pleasant duty as
signed us by the republican national conven-
tion recently assembled in St Louis-tbat Of
| formally notifying you of your nomination as
the candidate Of the republican party for pres
| ident of the United States We respectfully
| request your acceptance of this nomination and
| your approval Of the declaration of the princi-
pies adopted by the convention. We assure
| YOU that you are the unanimous choice Of d
united party, and your candidacy will be i'm
mediately accepted by the country as .an abso-
| Lutte guaranty OF republican success.
Your nomination has been made In obedt.
| enee to a popular demand, whose uniHerSality
and;spontanety attest the affection and conf
| denCe of the plain people Of the United States
| ByCommon consent you are theirGhampion
| Their mighty uprising in your behalf empha-
| sizes the sincerity OF their conversion to the
| cardinal principles of protection and reciprocf
w rs best exemplided in that splendid congress
| sonal act which justly bears your name. I'm
| derit this nation advanced to the very culmi-
nation of a prosperity far SURPRISING that oi
| all other peoples aud all other times; pros
penity shared in by all sections, al interests
| and all classes: by capital and labor; by pro
ducer and consumer; prosperity so happily III
hapmony with the genius of popular govern
mcpt that its choicest blessings werc mos
widely distributed among the lowliest toilerS
and the humblest homes
| In 1892 your countrymen unmuuiul OF vow
solemn warnings, returned that p9r,y 20 powe,
which reiterated its everlasting opposition to
protective tariff and demanded the rcpeal,g
| the Mckinley act. They sOwod the wind. They
reaped the whirlwind. The'suferngS audloSses
| and disasters to the American people from fOul
yeam Of democratic tariff are vastly greater
| than those which came to them from four year.
| of civil war.
Out of it all one great good remains, ThCSt
| who scorned your councils speedily witnessed
the fnlhllment Of your prophecies, and even a'
| the Soourged and repentant Israelites abjureC
their stupid idols and resumed unqueTdioninl
| alliance to Moses and to Moses God, so nos
your countrymen, shamed Of their errGs, turI
to you and TO those glorious principles fG
which you stand. in the full belief that in YOU
candidacy and the republican platform the ent
OF the wilderness has come .and the promised
land Of American prosperity IL again 10 then
an insured inheritance.
But your nomination means more than tn,
Endorsement of protective tariff, of reciproc.
fly, OF sound money and Of honest finances, fo
all Of which you have steadfastly stood L
means ar Endorsement OF your heroic youth
your fruitful years OF arduous public service
your sterling patriotism. your Stalwart Ameri'
| canism your Christian character, and th(
purity, fidelity and simplicity of your private
| life In all these things you are the typiea
American; for all these things you are thC
chosen leader OF the people. God give yol
| strength so TO bear the hOnors and meet tn,
| duties OF that great ONCE for which you arr
now nominated, and to which you will bt
elected that your administration will enhance
! the dignity and power and glory OF this repub.
lie, and secure the safety, welfare and happi
Sess of It's liberty-loving people.
When Mr.. Thurston finished, Gov
Mckinley, who was standing few
feet from him and slightly in his rear
stepped forward, holding the manu-
script of his speech in his left hand.
He was greeted with thunderous ap.
plause. Maj Mckinley read his speech
in clear, far-reaehing voice. 1t was
listened to intently and he was com
PEELED to halt several times by reason
Of loud applause and cheers. He said
Senator Thurston and gentlemen Of the no
tifcation committee of the national conventions
o be selected as their presidential candidate
by great party convention representing sc
vast o number Of the people Of the United
States is most distinguished honor, for whicl
| would not conceal my high appreciation nj.
though deeply sensible OF the great responsi.
tilties Of the trust and my inability TO beal
them without Tie generous and constant sup.
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