The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-06-30
Governor Mckinley Formally No
titled of His Nomination For
President.
Speech of Senator Thurston Re-
questing His Acceptance -Peo-
pie Demanded 1t.
I'm Response Governor Mckinley
Expresses Thanks and Out
lines His Position.

lines, His Position.
CANTON, O., June 3O-The members
of the committee appointed by the ST.
Louis convention to notify Ex-Governor
Mckinley of his nomination, reached
here Oh a Cleveland Terminal and Val
ley special at II 80. The permanent
reception committee, lately organized
for the campaign, headed by Judge
Baldwin, William r. Day and Henry
Wise, were at the depot to meet the
party. Decorated tally hos and car
riages were in waiting at the station.
The parade was organized, the Grand
Army band and the citizens troop Of
cavalry leading the vehicles occupied
by the guests. Citizens fell in behind,
and an enormous crowd quickly gath
cred about the Mckinley home, where
the duties of the committee were dis
charged and where the general public
had been invited, through the press
On arriving at the Mckinley home,
the comm1tee and guests found an
enormous crowd assembled about the
residence but an open space on the
north side was reserved, and the party
was quickly seated upon the camp
chairs provided. Mrs. Mckinley and q
company Of friends occupied the front
porch as the party arrived. Just as the
crowd was quieting down Governor
Mckinley came out on the porch and
was given most enthusiastic ovation,
cheer after cheer arising from the
crowd
Senator Thurston stepped upon the
platform and delivered the official nOti-
fication. He was greeted with applause
and was frequently interrupted by the
cheering of the sentiments he expressed.
He spoke as follows:
Governor Mckinley:
We are here to perform the pleasant
duty assigned us by the Republican Ma
tional convention, recently assembled in
St Louis, that of formally notifying you
of your nomination 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 principle adopted by the
convention.
we dSSuTe yOu tIldb YOU uIC tLo
nous choice of united party, and your
candidacy will be Immediately accepted by
the country al an absolute guaranty Of
Republican success.
The People Demanded 1t.
Your nomination has been made in obe-
dience to q popular demand, whose uni
versatility and spontaneity attest the affec-
ton and confidence of the plain people Of
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you are their champion. Their mighty
uprising In your behalf emphasizes the
sincerity of their conversion to the cardinal
principles Of protection and reciprocity, as
best exemplitied in that splendid congress
sional act which justly bears your
name. Under it this nation advanced
to the very elimination Of
prosperity far surprising that Of all
other peoples and all other times; pros
perity shared in by all sections, all inter
ests and all classes; by capital and labor;
by producer and consumer; a prosperity
SO happily in harmony with the genius Of
popular government that it's choicest bless
ings were most widely distributed among
the lowliest toilers and the humblest
homes.
In 1892 your cOuntrymen, unmindful Of
your solemn warnings, returned that
party to power which reiterated it's ever
lasting opposition to protective tariff
and demanded the repeal of the Mckinley
act. They sowed the wind. They reaped
the whirlwind. The sufferings and losses
and disasters to the American people from
four years of Democratic tariff, are vastly
greater than thos which came to them
from four years of civil war.
One Great Good Remains.
Out of it all one great good remains
Those who scorned your counsels speedily
witnessed the fulfillment Of your prophe-
sizes, and, even as the scourged and repent
ant Israelites abjured their stupid idols
and resumed unquestioning allegiance to
Moses and to Moses God, 80 now your
countrymen, ashamed 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 plat
form mean that the end of the wilderness
has come and the promised land of Ameri-
can prosperity Is again to them an insured
inheritance.
Means More Than Protection.
But your nomination means more than
the endorsement of protective tariff, Of
reciprocity, of sound money and of honest
finance, 1Or all OF Wnlch you nave SO
stcadfastly stood. 1t means an endorse
,ment Of your heoric youth; your fruitful
years of arduous public service; your
sterling patriotism; your satlwart Amer
icanism your Christian character, and
the purity fidelity and simplicity of your
private life. In all these things you are
the typical American; for all these things
you are the chosen leader of the people.
God give Won strength 70 so hear the hon
ors 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 re-
public, and secure the safety welfare ant
happiness Of its liberty flowing lco.l lie