The record-union., 1896-07-08

At II O'Clock Mr.. and Mrs. Hobart,
accompanied by several ladies and gen.
tlemen, stepped out on the porch, and
Charles w. Fairbanks, Chairman Of
the committee, then spoke as follows:
Mr.. Hobart: The Republican Nation
al Convention recently assembled at
st Louis commissioned US to formally
notify you of your nomination for the
office of President of the United
States. We are met pursuant to the
direction of the convention to perform
the duty assigned us.
'In all the splendid history of the
great party which holds our loyal allie
glance the necessity was never more
urgent for steadfast adherence to those
wholesome principles which have been
the sure foundation rock of our national
prosperity The demand was never
greater for men who hold principle
above all else, and who are unmoved
either by the clamor of the hour or the
promise of false teachers.
''The convention at st. Louis in full
measure met the demands of the times
in its declaration of party principles
and in the nomination of candidates for
President and Vice-President. Sir the
office for which you were nominated is
of rare dignity, honor and power. 1t
has been graced by the most eminent
statesmen who have contributed to the
upDuilding of the strength and glory of
the republic. Because of your exalted
personal character. and Of your intelli-
gent and patriotic devotion to the en-
during principles of a protective tariff,
which wisely discriminate in favor Of
American interests and to a currency
whose soundness and integrity none
can challenge, and because of your pc
culiar fitness for the exacting and i'm
portant duties of the high office, the Re-
publican National Convention, with
unanimity and enthusiasm rarely wit
messed chose you as our candidate for
Vice President of the United States.
I'VE know it to be gratifying to you
personally to be the associate of Will
lam Mckinley in the pending contest
For you and your distinguished associ-
ate we bespeak the enthusiastic and
intelligent support of all our country
men who desire that prosperity shall
again rule throughout the republic
HOBART ACCEPTS.
At the conclusion of Fairbanks
speech Hobart replied as follows
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Committee: / beg to extend to you my
grateful acknowledgements for the very
kind and fiattering terms in which you
convey the formal announcement of my
nomination for Vice-President of the
United States by the Republican Con-
vention at ST Louis. ! am profoundly
sensible of the honor which has been
done me and through me to the State
in which all my life has heen spent in
my selection as a candidate for this
high office.
II appreciate it the more because it
associates me, in a contest which in
wolves the very gravest issues, with one
who represents in his private charac-
ter and public career the highest intel
ligence and best spirit of his party, and
with whom my personal relations are
such as to afford a guarantee of per-
feet accord in the work of the cam
paign which lies before me.
1T is sufficient for me to say at this
time that, concurring without reserve
in all the declarations of principle and
policy embodied in the st. Louis plat
form. / accept the nomination rendered
me. With a full appreciation of it's re-
sponsiblities, and with an honest pur-
pose. in the event that the people shall
ratify the choice made by the National
Convention. to discharge any duties
which may devolve upon me with sole
reference to the public good.