The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-30
The Committee Informs Him OF
His Nomination.
SENATOR THURSTON SPOKE
A Protective Tariff and Sound
sss.ss sss.ss Money Extolled.
THE SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE
"The Platform Adopted Has Received
NV Careful Consideration ard
Has my Unqualified
Approval"

TidS WY Oi'ISeAh'~N
Approval"
Canton, Ohio, June 29.-The RepubI.
can notification committee, appointed
by the St. Louis convention to notify
Mai. Mckinley of his nomination for
the Presidency, reached Canton from
Cleveland at 1l:4o to-day. Decorated
tallyhos and carriages were in waiting
at the station. The parade was organ
ized, the Grand Army band and the cit
izen troop of cavalry leading the vehi-
cles occupied 10y the guests.
Citizens fell in behind, and an enoI-
nous crowd quickly gathered about the
Mckinley home, where the duties Of
the committee were discharged and
where the general public had been iu-
formally invited.
Mrs Mckinley and a company OF
friends occupied the front porch as the
party arrived. just as the crowd was
quieting down, Governor Mckinley
stepped out on the porch, and was
given most enthusiastic ovation,
cheer after cheer rising from the crowd.
Senator Ihurston stepped upon the
porch. and, in his fiery eloquence, de
livered the official notification. He was
greeted with enthusiastic applause,
and was frequently interrupted by the
cheering of the sentiments he express
ed.
Governor Mckinley:
I'VE are here to perform ithe pleasant
duty assigned us by the Republican Ma.
tional convention, recently assembled
in St. Louis, that of formally notifying
YOU of your nomination as the candi-
date of the Republican party for Pres
ident of the United States.
.'We respectfully request your ac-
ceptance of this nomination and your
approval of the declaration of prime i
pies adopted by the convention.
I'VE assure you THAT youa are the unan-
imous choice of united party, and
your candidacy will be Immediately
accepted by the country as an absolute
guarantee of Republican success.
Your nomination has been. in obedi-
ence to a popular demand, whose uni
versatility and spontaniety attest the af
fection and confidence of the plain peo-
pie of the United States. by common
consent you are their champion. Their
sizes the sincerity of their conversion
TO the cardinal principles of protection
and reciprocity, as best eXemplitied in
that splendid Congressional act which
justly bears your name. Under it this
Nation advanced to the very culmina-
tion 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 prosperity so happily in harmony
with the genius of popular government
that it's choicest blessings were most
widely distributed among the lowliest
toilers and the hum'blest homes.
In 1892, your cOuntrymen, unmind-
full of your solemn warnings, returned
that party to power which reiterated
lis everlasting opposition to a protec-
tive tariff and demanded the repeal OF
the Mckinley act. They sowed the
wind They reaped the whirlwind.
The sutferings and losses and disasters
to the American people from four years
of Democratic tariff are vastly greater
than those which came to them from
four years of a civil war.
''Out of it all one great good remains.
Those who scorned your councils
speedily witnessed the fulfillment Of
your prophecies, and even as the scour-
ged and repentent Israelites abjured
their stupid idols and resumed unques
tioning allegiance to Moses and to Mo-
ses' God, so now your cOuntrymen,
ashamed of their errors, turn to yoa
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 will
derness has come, and the promised
land of American prosperity is again
tn them an insured inheritance.
But your nomination means more
than an endorsement of protective
tariff, of reciprocity, of sound and hon
est finance, for all of which you have
so steadfastly stood. 1t means an en-
dorsement of your heroic youth; your
fruitful years of arduous public ser
vice; your sterling patriotism; your
stalwart Americanism; your Christian
character, and the purity, fidelity and
simplicity of your private life; for all
these things you are the chosen leader
of the people. God give you strength
to so bear the honors and meet the
dubies of that great Office for which
you are now nominated, and to which
you will be elected, that your admins
tration will enhance the dignity and
power and glory of this Republic, and
secure the safety, welfare and happi-
ness of its liberty-loving people"
At 1920 Governor Mckinley arose to
respond and the cheering was renewed.
When quiet was restored, he spoke in
part as follows:
Beginning with a reference to the
great honor, Gov. Mckinley continued:
""Great as is the honor conferred,
ennally arduous and important is the