Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-07-04
A POLITICAL FORMALITY.
Mckinley is Officially Notified Of
His Nomination.
A Com mittee of Prominent Republicans
from Each State In the Union Visits
tho Candidate mt His Home-The
speech of Accceptanoe-In-
dorsea the Platform.


CANTON, o., June sc The commit
tee, consisting of one member from
each state and territory, which was Sc
lected at the ST. Louis convention to
convey to Maj, Mckinley the official
notification of his nomination, arrived
in Canton on a special train from Cleve-
land at 1880 o'clock Monday morning.
The members of the committee were
met at the station here by reception
committee composed of some of the
foremost citizens of Canton, and were
driven in open carriages to Maj. Nc
Kinley's residence, accompanied by a
mounted escort. The preparations at
Maj. McKinley's were simple. Seven
ty-tive chairs were placed on the front
lawn under the trees and facing the
house. On the rear lawn large tent
was erected and in it was a long table
on which covers were laid for hun
dred guests.
Maj. Mckinley received the MEM
bers of the committee on the veranda.
The streets about the house were filed
with men, women and children. The
crowd surged in ae the gates and
pressed close up to the chairs where
they sat-
The last time Maj. Mckinley saw
presidential candidate notified of his
namination was four years ago, in
Washington. The scene of the action
was the White House. Benjamin Har-
rison was the candidate and Mckinley
made the speech of notification. Har-
,-ic 1nn,,,nl 10 Ia in, lpfaat stood
in the spacious East room, surrounded
by his cabinet and a concourse of dis
tinguished people was present.
1t was ten minutes past 12 when the
notification committee reached Mai.
McKinley's house. Mrs. Mckinley and
the majors mother occupied chairs
near him on the veranda. His brothers.
family and his nieces were close about
him. The chairs back of the notifica-
tion committee were filed by ladies of
Canton, Columbus and Cleveland, whose
husbands are prominent in business
and public affairs.
Frank Hiscock, Senator Thurston,
Mark Hanna and C. N. Fairbanks oc-
greeted with tremendous cheers. Mai.
Mckinley met them outside the gate
as they alighted from the carriage, and
shook hands. Senator Thurston was
in excellent voice. His tones were as
clear and commanding and far-reach-
ing as they were in the st. Louis con-
vention hall. His speech was received
with much enthusiasm and applause
He said:
We are here to perform q pleasant duty as
signed us by the republican national conven-
tion recently assembled in st. Louis-that Of
formally notifying you of your nomination as
the candidate of the republican party for pres
ident of the United States. We respectfully
requcs. your acceptance of this nomination and
your approval OF the declaration Of the princi-
pies adopted by the convention. We assure
you that you are the unanimous choice of q
u1ited party, and your candidacy will be i'm
modately accepted by the country as an abso-
lutte guaranty of republican success.
Your nomination has been made in obedi-
ente to n popular demand, whose universality
and spontaneity attest the affection and conf
4 dence Of the plain people of the United States.
: BY common consent you are their champion.
Their mighty uprising N your behalf empha-
sizes the sincerity of their conversion to the
cardinal principles OF protection and reciproci-
w Us best excmplhed in that splendid congress
sisial act which Justly bears your name. Un-
der it this nation advanced to the very culmi-
all other peoples and all other times; n pros
perity shared in by all sections, all interests
and all classes; by capital and labor; by pro-
ducer and consumer; prosperity so happily in
harmony with the genius OF popular govern
rnent that it's choicest blessings were most
4 widely distributed among the lowliest toilers
and the humblest homes.
In 1S9. your countrymen, unmindful OF your
solemn warnings, returned that party to power
which reiterated Its everlasting opposition to
protective tariff and demanded the repeal o.
the Mckinley act They sowed the wind. They
rcaped the whirlwind. The sufferings and lossei
ans disasters to the American people from foul
years of democratic tariff are vastly greater
than those which came to them from four years
of civil war.
Out OF it all one great good remains. Thos,
who Scorned your councils speedily witnessed
the fultillment OF your prophecies. and, even a!
tAe scourged and repentant IsraelitcS abjurel
their stupid idols and resumed unquestioninI
alliance to Moses and to Moses God. so nov
your countrymen, shamed OF their errors, tn.
to you and to those glorious principles 70
which you stand in the full belief that in you
candidacy and the republican platform the en-,
of the wilderness has come, and the promises
land Of American prosperity is again to then
an insured inheritance.
But your nomination means more than tn
Endorsement of protective tariff, OF reciproc
fly, OF sound money and OF honest HnanceS 10
all of which you have steadfastly stood.
means an Endorsement of your heroic youth
your fruitful years of arduous public sTvice
your sterling patriotism, your staiwart Ameri
cansm, your Christian character, and tn
purity, fidelity and simplicity of your privat
life. In all these things you are the typica
American; for all these things you are tn
chosen leader of the people. God give yo
strength so to bear the honors and meet tn
duties OF that great ONCE for which you ar
now nominated. and to which you will b
elected, that your administration will enhanc
the dignity and power and glory of this repub
lie, and secure the safety, welfare and happi
ness of its liberty-loving people
When Mr.. Thurston finished, Gov
Mckinley, who was standing n few
feet from him and slightly in his rear
stepped forward, holding the manu-
script of his speech in his left hand
He was greeted with thunderous ap
plause Maj. Mckinley read his speecl
in clear, far-reachinE voice. 1t wa
listened to iLtently and he was com
PEELED to halt several times by reasol
OF loud applause. and cheers. He said