The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-07-04
M'KINLEY IS TOLD
THAT HE HAS RECEIVED THE NOM
NATION FOR PRESIDENT.
The Committee ON Notification Per-
forms Its Duties ut CantOn-Chatr-
man T1aurston Makes the NOttnca>
ton Speech and Mai. Mckinley
Rcplies-LarEe Crowd Is Present.

Canton, Ohio, July 1.-The notifica-
ton committee reached here ut ll:ls'.
Judges G. E. Baldwin, William 4. l'ay
and Henry A. Wise were at the depot
to meet the party with decorated tally
hos and carriages. The parade was o.
ganized. the Grand Army band and the
citizens troop of cavalry leading the
vehicles occupied by the guests. Citi-
zcl.s fell in behind and an enormous
crowd quickly gathered about the Nc
Finley home. The crowd was el'or-
nous and the cheering was ~incessant.
Maj. Mckinley was cheered again and
again when he appeared. The cere-
monies occurred on the lawn in front
of Mr.. McIlinley's house.
Formally Notified.
Chairman Thurston addressed Maj. Nc
Kinley rs follows:
Gov. Mckinley: We are here to perform
the pleasant duty assigned us by the Re-
sembled In st. Louis, that Of formally no.
tifying you of your nomination as the can
didate Of the Republican party for presi-
dent of the United States. We respectfully
request your acceptance of this nomination
and your approval Of the declaration Of
principles adopted by the convention.
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. Your nomination has
been made in obedience to a popular de-
mand, whose universally and spontaneity
attest the affection and confidence of the
plain people of the United States. By COM
mon consent you are their champion. Their
mighty uprising In your behalf emphasizes
their conversion to the cardinal principles
of protection and reciprocity as best ex-
emplitied 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 all classes; by capital and
labor; by producer and consumer; a pros
perity so happily In harmony with the ge-
MUS of popular government that Its
choicest blessings were most widely dis
tributed among the lowliest toilers and the
humblest homes.
In 1892, your country, unmindful of your
solemn warnings, returned that party to
power which reiterated its everlasting Op-
position to a protective tariff and demanded
the repeal of the Mckinley act. They
sowed the wind. They reaped the whirl-
wind. The sufferings and losses and dis
astcrs 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 it
all one great good remains. Those who
scorned your counsels speedily witnessed
the fuldllment Of your prophecies, and
even as the scourged and repentant Israel
ties abjured their stupid idols and re-
sumed unquestioning allegiance to Moses
and Moses God, so now" your countrymen,
shamed 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 platform mean that the
end of the wilderness has come aIfI the
promised land of American prosperity is
again to them an insured inheritance.
But your nomination means more than
the endorsement of q protective tariff Of
reciprocity, of sound money and of honest
finance, for all of which you have SO stead
lastly stood. 1t means an endorsement Of
your heroic youth; your fruitful years of
alnluous public service; your sterling i'a-
triotism; your stalwart Am%ericanism: yohr
Christian character, and the purity, fidelity
and simplicity of your private life. In all
these things you are the typical American;
TO: all these things you are the chosen
leader of the people. God give you strength
to bear the honors 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 repub-
lie, and secure the safety, welfare and hap
piness of its libcrty-loving people.
Mckinley Replies.
AS Mr.. Mckinley stepped forward to re-
ply he was given an ovation. When the
cheering ceased he spoke as follows:
Senator Thurston and Gentlemen Of the
Notification Committee Of the Republican
National Convention: To be selected! as
party convention representing SO vast
a number Of people of the United
States, is a most distinguished honor.
for which would not conceal my
high appreciation, although deeply sensible
of the great responsibilities Of the
trust, and my inability to bear them with
out the generous and constant support OF
my fellow:countrymen; Great as Is inc
honor conferred. equally arduous and I'M
cortamt is the duty imposed, and in ac-
cepting the III assume the other, relying
unon the patriotic devotion Of the people
to the best interests of our beloved conn
try. and the sustaining care and aid Of Him
without who:c support all we do is empty
an! vain. Should the people ratify the
~ou speak, my only aim will be to pro-
mote the puhlic'good, which in America is
always the good Of the greatest number.
The honor of our country, and the welfare
of the people.
The questions to be settled in the national
..Oi;tcSt this year are as serious and lm-
Nortant as am of the great governmental
problems that have confronted us In the
rast quarter. of a century. They command
,ur sober Judgment and a settlement free
rrnn, partisan prejudice and passion, bene-
fc'al to ourselves and BETTING the honor
aml grandeur of the republic. They touch
every interest of our common country.
Our Industrial supremacy, our productive
capacity, our business and commercial pros
,cvity. our labor and its rewards. our ma
A'onal credit and currency, our proud fnan-
.ial honesty and our splendid free citizen
S!:;p-the birthright of every man-are all
involved In the pending campaign, and
thus every home In the land Is directly and
Intimately connected with their proper set
Element. Great are the issues involved In
che coming election and eager M earnest
the people for the rights and determine
ton. Our. domestic trade must be won
back and our idle workmen employed in
cainful occupations at American wages.
Our home market must be restored to Its
proud rank Of first In the world, and our
foreign trade, so precipitately cut on by
adverse national legislation. reopened on
fair and equitable terms for our surplus
agricultural and manufacturing products.
Protection and reciprocity, twin measures
Of a true American policy, should again
command the earnest encouragement of the
government at Washington. Public. conf.
dence must be resumed, and the skill. the
energy and the capital Of our country ind
ample employment at home, sustained, en-
couraged and defended against the I'M
equal connection and serious. 4diHadvant.