Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-07-11
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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 nonina-
tion as the candidate of the republican
party for president OF the United States.
We respectfully request your accept
ance OF this nomination n your APP
prevail of the declaration of the princi-
Piles adopted by the convention.
We assure you that you are the
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 beer made in
obedience to a popular demand, whose
universally and spontaniety attest the
affection n confidence of the plain
people OF the United States. BY common
consent you are their champion. Their
mighty uprising in you behalf empha-
sizes the sincerity OF their conversion
TO the cardinal principles of protection
and reciprocity as best exemplifed in
that splendid congressional act which
justly bears your name. Unde II this
nation advanced to the very culmina-
tion OF a prosperity ( : SURPRISING that
OF all other peoples n all other times;
a prosperity shared in by all sections,
all interests n all classes: by capital
and labor; by producer and
a prosperity so 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, unmindful OF
your solemn warnings returned that party
10 power which reiterated It's everlasting
opposition to a protective tariff and de-
manded the repeal OF the Mckinley act.
They sowed the wind. They reaped the
whirlwind. The suferings and losses and
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 you counsels speedily
witnessed the fulfllment OF your prophe-
cies and even as the scourged and repent
ant 1sraelites abjured their stupid idols
and resumed unquestioning allegiance TO
Moses and TO Moses God, so now your coun-
trymen, ashamed OF their errors, turn TO
you and TO those glorious principles for
which you stand I'm 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.
But your nomination means more than
the Endorsement OF a protective tarin. OF
reciprocity, OF sound money and OF honest
finance. for all OF which you have so
steadfastly stood. 1t means an indorse-
T meRt of your h rSd youth, your fruitful
fireErfhntyy5G aaigs"t the eyYlc1f Amor
lean; for all these things you are the
chosen leader Of the people. God give
o strength 10 so 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 ad-
mlnistration viii enhance the dignity
and power and 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 a 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.