Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-07-02

Canton, o.. June 80. Maj. Mckinley
was yesterday made officially cogni-
zant of the fact that he was nominated
by the republican convention at ST
Louis for the presidency of the United
States This intelligence was conveyed
to him by a committee appointed by the
chairman of that convention and which
waited upon the standard-bearer Of the
party. Garrett A. Hobart, the
nominee for the vice presidency, will
receive official notification of the ac-
ton of the convention on July Z. The
committee which will perform this
office will meet at the Fifth Avenue ho-
and proceed to Patterson to perform its
mission next day. McKinley's com
mittee came from Cleveland on a spec
ial train and at once proceeded TO the
nominees house, a great crowd follow
ing. The visitors were received in the
library and filled II to .ts utmost capac-
ity. Besides Maj Mckinley, his
mother and Mrs. Mckinley, few others
were present Addressing ex-Gov. Nc
Kinley, who rose and faced the COM
mittee, Senator Thurston made an elo-
quent speech, to which Major McKin-
ley replied. The latter, after accepting
the nomination and declaring for pro-
lection, reciprocity and a larger reve-
nue.. thus alluded 70 the financial
question; THE American people hold
the financial honor Of our government
as sacred as our flag and can be re-
lied upon to guard it with the same
vigilance. They hold its preservation
above f,arty fealty and have often DEM
onstrated that party ties avail nothing
when the spotless credit OF our country
is threatened. The money of the
United States, and ever. kind or form
of it, whether of paper, silver or gold
must be as good as the best in the
world. 1t must not only be current at
its full face value at home but it must
be counted at par in any and every
commercial center Of the globe. The
sagacity and farseeing policy of the
great man who founded our govern
ment, the achings and acts of the
wisest finaneiers at every stage in our
history, the steadlast faith and splen.
did achievements of the great party To
which we belong aud the genius and in
tegrity Of our people have always de-
manded this and will ever maintain it,
The dollar paid to The farmer, the
wage Garner and the pcnsioner must
continue forever equal in purchasing
and debt paying power to the dollar
paid 20 any government creditor
Harry II, Smith, many years clerk in
the national house Of representatives,
presented Major Mckinley with a
gayel that was made from log taken
frcm the cabin occupied by Abrlhart
Lincoln in 1892 at New Salem, lit. Ma
jor Mckinley returned his thanks
Senator Hiscock, speaking to McKin-
ley on behalf Of New York, claimed
that in proportion to population as well
as in fat, New York would give larg
er majority for Mckinley next fall than
Ohio. C. T.. TOWNSEND spoke for
Maine. Senator Browning for Virginia,
lC. w Fairbanks for Indiana, Col Rem
mels for Arkansas, Col Calvin Manning
for Iowa, Judge hughes for Vermont,
Henry l.. Wilson for Washington slate,
Martin Van Buren, Jefferson for Massa-
onusetts and Capt, Jack Crawford for
New Mexico Mark a. Hanna, OF Cleye-
land and DeIegate-at-Large DR.. 1heo-
dore Flood, editor Of the Chautauqua
Magazine, also spoke. The party, af-
Ter being photographed left for Cleye-
land The meeting was very enthusi-
sstic 2
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