The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-07-04
Thurston,s Speech.

Governor Mckinley: We are here to
perform the pleasant duty assigned US
by the republican national convention
recently assembled in st. Louis, that of
formally notifying you of your nomina-
ton as the candidate of the republican
party for president of the United States.
We respectfully request your accept
ance of this and your APP
prevail of the declaration of the princi-
pies adopted by the convention.
We assure vol that you are the unan-
imous choice of a united party. and your
candidacy will be Immediately accepted
by the country as an absolute guaranty
of republican success.
Your nomination has been made in
obedience to a popular demand, whose
universally and s~pontaniety attest the
affection and confidence of the plain
people of the United States. BY common
consent you are their champion. Their
mighty uprising in u behalf empha-
sizes the sincerity of their conversion
to the cardinal principles of protection
and reciprocity as best exempliied in
that splendid congressional act which
justly bears your name. Under 1t this
nation advanced to the very culmina-
ton OF a prosperity far surprising that
OF all other peoples and all other times:
a prosperity shared in by all sections,
all interests and al classes; by capital
and labor; by producer and consumer;
a prosperity so happily in harmony with
the genius of popular government that
its choicest blessings We're most widely
distributed among the lowliest toilers
n the humblest homes.
In 1882 your countrynen, unmindful of
your solemn. warnings returned that party
opposition to a protective tariff and de-
manded the repeal of the Mckinley act.
They, sowed the wind; They reaped the
disasters 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 1t all one great good remains.
Those who scorned your counsels speedily
witnessed the fulfliment of your prophe-
ant 1sraelites abjured their stupid idols
and resumed unquestioning allegiance to
Moses and to Moses God, 50 now you coun-
you and to those glorious principles for
which you stand in the full belief that in
Your candidacy and the republican plat
form the end of the wilderness has come
and the promised land of American pros
perity is again to them an assured inheri-
lance.
the Endorsement OF a protective tariff. of
reciprocity, OF soundm money and of honest
finance, for all of which you have so
steadfastly stood. 1t means an indorse-
ment of your heroic youth, our fruitful
years Of arduous public service,
s yanT s' Americantsm natrl Sonr CHRISTIAN yGar
character, and the purity. fidelity n
simplicity of your private life. In all
these things you are the typical Amer
lean; for all these things you are the
chosen leader of the people. God give
you strength to SO e the honors and
meet h duties of that great Office for
which you are now nominated II to
which you will be elected, that your ad-
ministration will enhance the dignity
and power n glory of this republic,
and secure the safety. welfare and hap
piness of its liberty loving people.
AT the conclusion of the speeches, the
notification committee sat down to
luncheon. which was served in q large
tent on the lawn. After lunch they were
driven about the city for an hour or two
and will leave for Cleveland about 5
O'clock,