The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-07-08
Notified And Accepted,

Eloquent Speech by Senator Thurston,
Chairman Of the Notification Com
mittee, and Patriotic Reply by the
Republican Presidential Nominee.
The eoamitteee appointed by the
Republican National convention to
formally notify William Mckinley Of
his nomination for the Presidency Of
the United States performed its duty
well.
A dispatch from Canton says: Since
this peaceful and industrious communi-
ty was first thrown into an uproar of
enthusiasm by the exceptional honor
conferred upon its distinguished citi-
zen there has been no event so impress
i've as the proceedings here Tuesday.
While the city was remarkably free
from the noisy shOuters and the tin
horn brigade, there was an impressive
undercurrent which every patriotic
neighbOr Of the Repnblican candidate
for the Presidency felt and appreciated.
The nomination of Maj. Mckinley
seems to be personal matter with
every citizen of Canton, be he Of high or
low degree, and the qualification over
the events of Tuesday was shared by
every man, woman and child in the
city.
IL was after II when the notification
committee reached Maj. McKinley's
house. Mrs. Mckinley and the Majors
venerable mother occupied chairs near
him on the veranda. His brothers
family and his pretty nieces were close
about him. The chairs back Of the
notification committee were filled by
women of Canton, Columbus and Cleve-
land, whose husbands are prominent
i'm business and public affairs. Ii was
charming open air scene, sweetly idyl-
| lie in character.
Senator ThurstOn stepped upon the
porch, and, in his fiery elOquence, de-
/ delivered the official notification. He
was greeted with enthusiastic applause
and was frequently interrupted by the
/ cheering of the sentiments he express
ed as follows:
SENATOR TIIURSTON'S ADDRESS
Goccrnor Mckinley.
We are here to perform the pleasant
duty assigned us by the Republican
National Convention, recently assem-
bled 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 accep-
tence of this nomination and your ap-
proval of the declaration of principles
adopt ted by the Convention.
We assure you that you are the un-
animOus 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 popular demand, and the
universally and confidence of the
plain people of the United States. BY
common consent you are their champ
ion. Their mighty uprising in your be-
half emphasizes the sincerity of their
conversion To the cardinal principles of
Protection and Reciprocity as best ex-
emplified in that splendid Congress
ional Act which justly bears your
| ,.,o ITnJ.r ;t this Nation advanced
to the very elimination of prosperity
far surprising that of all other peoples
and all other times; prosperity shared
in by all sections, all interests, and all
classes; by capital and labor, by pro-
ducer and consumer; a prosperity 20
happily in harmony with the genius Of
popular government that its choicest
blessings were most widely distributed
among the lowliest tOilers and the
humblest homes.
In 1892 your countrymen, unmindfu
of your solemn warnings, returned thai
party to power, which reiterated its
everlasting opposition to Protective
Tariff and demanded the repeal of the
Mckinley Act. They sowed the wind
the reaped the whirlwind. The suffer
, ings and losses and disasters to thu
|. American people from four years %
Democratic Tariff are vastly greatel
than those which came to them from
| four years of Civil War.
Out of it all one great good remains
Those who scorned your counsel'
: speedily witnessed the fulfilment o
: your prophecies, and even as the
scourged and repentant Israelites alb
: iured their stupid idols and resumed
unquestioning allegiance to Moses anC
to Moses God, so now your country
men, ashamed of their errors, turn Il
you and to those glorious principles fo
{ which you stand, in the full belief tina
your candidacy and the Repuoliear
platform mean the end of the wilder
f ness has come and the promised land o
American prosperity is again to then
< an insured inheritance.
But your nomination means mor'
r than an Endorsement of Protective
a Tariff, of Reciprocity, of Sound Money
e and of Honest Finance, for all o
' which YOU have So steadfastly stood; i
| means an Endorsement of your heroi'
: youth, your fruitful years of arduou
]. public service, your sterling patriotism
5 your stalwart Americanism, you
: Christian character, and the purity
r fidelity, and simplicity of your private
life. In all these things you are the
s typical American; for all these thing
5 YOU are the chosen leader fthe people
God give you strength to so bear tho
honors and meet the duties of tha
great office for which you are nov
nominated, and to which you will b'
4 elected, that your Administration viii
e enhance the dignity and power ant
glory Of this Republic, and secure tn
/ safety, welfare, and happiness of ii
liberty-loving people.