New Ulm review., 1896-07-01
NOW HE K NO VS. II
Governor Nc inley Formally No.
titled Of His Nominal ation For
President.
Speech Of senato Thurston Re.
questing His Acce ptanee Peo-
pie Demanded It.
In Response Governor Mex Kinley
Expresses Thanks and Out
lines His Position.

.hlnlSy mas DSGn FORMALLY nOTllleQs OF AIS
nomination by the Republican conven.
tion at St. Louis, for president of the
United States. Senator Thurston Oh
Nebraska delivered the speech Of Motif.
cation, and Governor Mckinley re.
sponded, expressing his appreciation OF
the honor, and reviewing the issues OF
the campaigns He laid particular stress
upon protection and reciprocity and
sound money
Senator ThUrston was accompanied
by the notification committe and a party
of prominent Republicans, to the mum
,ber Of about hundred. His. speech
requesting Governor Mckinley accept
ance 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. *.-l.- 49, -.
We assure you that you are the unani.
NOUS choice of a united party, and your
candidacy will be Immediately accepted by
the country as an absolute guaranty Of
Republican success. ..e@ ~
The People Demanded It.
Your nomination has been made in obe-
dience to a popular demand whose uni
itx,a nd itV ttnSt tho affpc- :
ton and confidence Of the plain people of
the United States. By common consent
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 exemplified in that splendid congress
sional act which justly bears your
name. Under it this nation advanced
to the very elimination OF
a prosperity far surprising that of all
other peoples and all other times; a 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 its 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 a 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, so 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 a protective tariff of
reciprocity, of sound money and of honest
finance, for all of which you have SO
steadfastly stood. It 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 you strength to so bear 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 and
happiness of its liberty loving people,
A MOST DISTINGUISHED HONOR
Reply of Governor Mckinley Accepting
" the Nominations
Replying to Senator Fhurston's ad-
dress, Governor Mckinley said
Senator Thurston and Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee of the Republic
can National Convention:
To be selected as their presidential can
didate by a great party convention repre-
senting so vast a number of people Of the
United States, is most distinguished
honor, for which would not conceal my