The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-07-09
THAT HE HAS RECEIVED THE NOM
NATION FOR PRESIDENT.
The Committee on Notification Per
forms It's Duties ut Cnnton-Chair-
ton Speech and Mai Mckinley
RcpIies-Large Crowd IL Present.

ana Henry "A. lSe were dl TUE htI'OL
10 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 10y the guests. Gil
zcIs fell in behind and an enormous
crowd quickly gathered about the Me
Finley home. The crowd was enor-
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.. McKinley's house.
Formally Notified.
Chairman Thurstou addressed Maj. Nc
Kinley as follows:
Gov. Mckinley: We are here TO perform
the pleasant duty assigned us by the Re-
publican national convention, recently as
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 Oh
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-
emplihed 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
perlty so happily in harmony with the ge-
MUS of popular government that It's
choicest blessings were most widely dis
tributed among the lowliest toilers aud the
humblest homes.
In 1892, your country, unmindful of your
solemn warnings, returned that party to
| power which reiterated it's everlasting OPP
position to u protective tariff and demanded
the repeal of the Mckinley act. They
| sowed the wind. They reaped the whirl-
wind. The sufferings and losses md dis
| asters 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 fuIhllment OF your prophecies, and
even as the sCOurged and repentant Israel
ties abjured their stupid idols and re-
sumed unquestiOning allegiance 20 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 anu 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
tasty stood. 1t means an endorsement of
your heroic youth; your fruitful years of
arduous public service; your sterling pa
| triotism; your stalwart Americanism: your
Christian character, and the purity, fidelity
and simplicity Of your private life. In all
these things you are the typical American;
for all these things you are the chosen
leader of the people. God giveNyou strength
10 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 repuo-
lie, and secure the safety, welfare and nap
piness OF its liberty-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 Conventions: To be selected as
| their presidential candidate. by a great
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 or the
trust. and my inability TO bear them with
| out the generous and constant support OF
my fellow-countrymen, Great as Is the
honor conferred, equally arduous and i'm
\ portant is the duty imposed, and in &C
| cepting the one I assume the other, relying
upon the patriotic devotion OF the people
| to the best interests of our beloved coun-
| try, and the sustaining care and aid Of Him
| without whose support all we do Is empty
and vain. Should the people ratify the
| choice of the great convention for which
| you speak, my only aim will be 10 pro-
mote the public 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
contest this year are as serious and i'm
portsnt as any Of the great governmental
\ problems that have confronted US in the
| past quarter Of a century. They command
our sober judgment and a settlement free
from partisan prejudice and passion. bene-
fetal to ourselves and betting the honor
and grandeur of the republic. They touch
every interest OF our common country.
Our Industrial supremacy, our productive
| capacity, our business and commercial pros
| perity. our labor and its rewards. our ma
| tional credit and currency, our proud fnan'
! cial honesty and our splendid free citizen.
ship-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
| the coming election and eager and earnest
! the people for the rights and determina'