The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-30

and through you to the great party
you represent. more formal accept
ance of the nomination rendered me.
No one could be more profoundly CRATE
full than / for manifestations of pub
lie confidence of which you have so
eloouently spoken.
ut shall be my aim TO attest this
anpreciation by an unsparing devotion
70 what / esteem the best interests
of the people and in this work l ask
the counsel and support of You. gen.
tIen,en and of every other friend OF
the country.
1.-The generous expressions with which
Vs5l sir. convey the official notice of my
nomination are highly appreciated and
as fully reciprocated, and thank you
and your associates of the notification
committee and rhe great party and
come. for the high and exceptional dis
tinctiun bestowed upon me-"
A GAvEL.
When the applause after Governor
McKinley's response to Senator Thurs
ton had subsidized, Mr.. Harry H. Smith,
for many years clerk in the national
house of representatives at Washing
ton and parliamentary secretary or
coach for the four last Republican
conventions, said:
THE various gavel's presented to
the ST. Louis convention, / need not
enumerate. The one presented to it
for the nominee of the convention for
president which ] now hold in my
hand, possesses far sreater historic in
terest than any of the gavels presented
to previous conventions This gavel was
presented by Mr. W. H. Bartells, of
Carthage, Ills, and was made from a
log taken from the cabin occupied by
Abraham Lincoln in 1882 at New Sa-
lem, Ills. On one end of the head of
the gavel is inscribed on silver plate
the name of the donor and the above
stated facts. while on the other end on
a gold plate appears the words Ma
tional Republican convention held at
ST. Louis, Mo-, June 16, 1896, nomi-
mating William Mckinley for presi-
dent
This gavel, which stands as on an
emblem and type of sturdy Ameri-
canism and American homes and in
dustries was placed in my hands as
assistant secretary of the convention
and of the notification committee fer
presentation to you on
THIS MOST HAPPY OCCASION.
TT gives me the profoundest pleas
ure to discharge this duty, and to say
that in handing you this gaveI I but
express me opinion not alone on the
great mass of members of the Republi-
can party of the United States, but of
many thousands of independent Demo-
Gratis who stand for honest money, that
in November next the work Of the con-
vention which nominated you VIII be
crowned by a majority never received
h11,f Nv afI 81 ttoA DE-
publican party, and that following in
the path of the martyred Lincoln,
whose memory is represented by this
gavel, you, like him. will discharge
the duties of the great office to which
you will surely be elected in November
next with unselfish patriotism and I'm
swerving fidelity to the constitution
and principles of American liberty only
represented by the Republican party"
AS the applause subsidized after Mr..
Smiths presentation of the handsome
gavel Governor Mckinley stepped for
ward tor the edge of the veranda and
said:
TALKS TO SMITH.
''Mr Smith. 1 thank you for this
beautiful gift and for the courteous
terms in which you have conveyed the
wishes of the convention. / am glad
great national Republican convention
and especially am L grateful for the
remembrance on account of the his
toric associations connecting it with
the name of the martyred Lincoln,
whose memory is an inspiration to
every American. I thank you again"
(Cheers.)
Before the notification party could
get seated for lunch a representative
delegation from Columbus, 325 in num-
Der. called.
Governor Mckinley responded to a
presentation by Attorney General D.
K. Watson.
You have Gone me great honor,
which l highly appreciate by the call
you have made upon me today. l re-
member with pleasure the four years
l spent in the capitol city. 1 felt
through all those years that there was
not moment of time that I did not
have the sympathy and the support
and the good will and encoura cement
of the men of Columbus, irrespective
Of political affiliations, and l recall
no four years of my public life that
were more agreeab BILE to me and that
have
LEFT MORE AGREEABLE MEMO
RES
which I shall cherish forever than the
years I spent among them. I thank
you, Congressman Watson, for the gra-
cious words you have spoken personal
to myself. l do believe in my country:
l believe in its vast possibilities and
l believe it is entirely with us what
shall be the possibilities of the future
for the government of the United
States, and l am sure that the people
Hf hi a+,.r-
will stand by those principles and
those policies that will secure to the
people Of the United States the great
est prosperity and the highest des-
tiny
Continuing the governor said:
We have present with US and it
gives me the greatest pleasure to pre-
sent to you some of the notification
committee from the national Republic
can convention. The first gentleman L
desire TO present is the illustrious citi-
zen of Nebraska, United States Senator
Thurston.'
In reply to calls from the thousands
assembled, Mr.. Thurston appeared
and said from the steps of Governor
McKiniey's home:
-Four years ago the Democratic
party said to the American people:
We will
GIVE YOU FREE TRADE
and the prosperity of this country will
be assured You voted for free trade
and prosperity receded. They said:
Give us free trade and new indus
tries and factories will OPEN but they
closed. They said Give us free trade
and there will be increased employ
ment for Americans but there was in
creased idleness instead They said:
Give US free trade and wages will rise
they said: Give us free trade and
business will boom, but it busted.
daughter and apDlause.)
To-day in the light of their past