The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-30
HIGH TARIFF HIS ONE HOBBY
M'KINLEY's FINANCIAL ALLUsIONS
STILL A LITTLE HAY.

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The Major Receives the st. Louis
Conventions Notification Commit
tee on the Lawn of His Home at
CanfOn-SenatOr ThurstOn's NOtifi-
cation speech Rather FIat-The
Reply of the Candidate Also Lack
ing in BriIIiancy.
Canton, O., June "a committee, con-
sisting of one member from each state
and territory, selected at the St. Louis
convention TO convey to Maj. Mckinley
official notification Of his nomination. ar
rived in Canton on a special train from
Cleveland this morning at I:S0 o'clock.
They were met at the station here by
reception committee composed of some of
the foremost citizens of Canton. and were
driven in open carriages to Maj. McKin-
ley's residence, accompanied by mounted
escort. Seventy-five chairs were placed
on the front lawn under the trees fac
ing the house. On the rear lawn a large
tent was erected and in it was a long
table on which covers were laid for 100
guests.
1t was 1910 o'clock when the notifica-
ton committee reached Maj. McKinleys
house Mrs. Mckinley and the majors
venerable mother occupied chairs near him
on the verandah. His brothers family
and his pretty nieces were also close
about him. The chairs back of the noti-
1icatiOn committee were filled by ladies
of Canton, Columbus and Cleveland,
whose husbands are prominent in bust
ness and public affairs. 1t was a charming
open air scene, sWeetly idylhc in charac-
ter Frank Hiscock, Senator Thurston,
Fairbanks
pied the first carriage. They We're greet
ed with tremendous cheers. Maj. Mckln-
ley met them outside the gate as they
alighted from the carriage, and shook
hands warmly.
Senator Thurston was in excellent voice.
HIS tones were as clear and command
ing and far-reaching as they We're in the
ST. Louis convention hall. His speech
was received with much enthusiasm and
lie said. "Gov. Mckinley, we are here to
perform the pleasant duty assigned us by
the republican national convention, re-
Gently assembled in st. Louis, that OF for
mally notifying you of your domination
as the candidate of the republican party
for President of the United States. We,
respectfully request your acceptance OF
this nomination and your approval OF the
declaration of principles adopted by the
convention.
I'VE assure you that you are the unan-
imous choice of the united party and your
candidacy will be Immediately accepted
lV the country as an dDsOluLt \ udi AMY VI
republican success. Your nomination has
been made in obedience to a popular de-
rnand, whose universally and spontaneous
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 empha-
sizes the sincerity of their conversion TO
the cardinal principles Of protection ana
reciprocity as best exemphhed in that
splendid congressional act which justly
bears your name. Under 1t this nation ad-
vanced to the very elimination OF pros
perity far surprising that Of all other peo-
pies and all other tlmes;a prosperity shared
in by all sections, all interests and all
classes; by capital and labor, by producer
and consumer; prosperity so happily in
harmony with the genius of popular gov
eminent that its choicest blessings were
most widely distributed among the lowliest
toilers and the humblest homes. In 1872
your countrymen, unmindful OF your sol
emn warnings, returned that party to
power which reiterated its everlasting op-
position to a protective tariff and demand
ed the repeal of the Mckinney act They
sowed the wind. They reaped the whirl-
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 scorned your counsels speed
lily witnessed the fulfllment of your pro-
phecies, and even as the scourged and
repentant Israelites abjured their stupid
idols and resumed unquestioning allegi-
ance to Moses and to Moses God, so now
your countrymen, shamed of their errors,
turn 10 you and to those glorious princi-
pies for which you stand, in the full be-
lief that your candidacy and the republi-
can platform mean that the end of the
wilderness has come and the promised
land of American prosperity is again to
them an insured Inheritance.
But your nomination means more than
the Endorsement of protective tariff, of
reciprocity, of sound money, and of hon
est finance, for all of which you have
steadfastly stood. 1t means an endorse
ment of your heroic youth, your fruitful
years of arduous public service, your
sterling patriotism, your stalwart Amer
icanism, your Christian character and
the purity, fidelity and simplicity of your
private life. In all these things
You are the typical Ameri-
can; for all these things you are
the chosen leader of the people.
God give you strength to so bear the hon.
ors and meet the duties of that great Of
flee for which you are nominated and to
which you will be elected, that your ad-
ministration VIII enhance the dignity and
power and glory of this republic and Sc
cure the safety, welfare and happiness of
its liberty-loving people"
When Senator Thurston finished, Gov.
Mckinley, who was standing a few feet
from him and slightly in his rear, stepped
forward, holding the manuscript of his
speech in his left hand. He never looked
better His eye was clear his color good
and he held himself like one who sees vic
tory in the distance. He wore a dark frocs
coat, as is his custom, and black trou-
,sers He was greeted with Humorous APP
plause.
Maj Mckinley read his speech in a clear
far-reaching voice. 1t was listened to in
tently and he was compelled to halt sever
al times by reason of the loud applause
and cheers.
Mai. McKinley's response was as fol.
lows: Senator Thurston and gentlemen
of the notification committee of the repub
lican national convention: To be selected