The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-30
MIR. MKINLEY NOTIFIED
FORMAL 1NNOUNCElTENT TO HIM
 OF HIS NOMINATION..

No Degraded Currency for Him-Senator
 Thurston's Address on This Interesting
 Occasion-MoKinley's Reply-He Speaks
 Chiefly About Protection, but Says That
 the Money of the United States Must Be
 as Good as the Best in the World.
 Canton, o. June 29-The republican presidential notification committee ar rived here this morning, and proceeded at once to Major McKinley's house.
 The notification proceedings were held on the lawn in front of the house in the presence of a big crowd.
 Senator Thurston, as chairman of the committee, told Major Mckinley that the republican party had selected him as it's candidate for president,
 SENATOR THURSTON'S SPEECH.
 Senator Thurston spoke as follows:
 Governor McKinley-We are here to perform a pleasant duty assigned us by the republican national convention re- gently assembled at St. Louis-that of formally notifying you of your nomi- nation as the candidate of the republi- can party for president of the United States. We respectfully request your acceptance of this nomination and your approval of the declaration of the prin- ciples adopted by the convention. We assure you that you are the unanimous choice of a united party, and your can didacy will be immediately accepted by the country as an absolute guarantee of republican success.
 Your nomination has been made in obedience to a popular demand, whose universality and spontaneity attest the affection and confidence of the plain people of the United States By com mon consent you are their champion. heir mighty uprising in your behalf emphasizes the sincerity of their con- version to the cardinal principles of protection and reciprocity as best ei emplitied in that splendid congressional act which justly bears your name. Un- der it this nation advanced to the very continuation of a prosperity far sur passing that of all other peoples and all other times; prosperity shared in by all sections, all interests and all class tS, Dy capital anu ldpOl, by plOduNtl and consumer; 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 humblest hor~es.
 Tn 1892 your Countrymen, unmindful of your solemn warnings. returned that party to power which reiterated it's ev- erlasting opposition to a protective tar if and demanded the repeal of the Me Kinley act They soNed the wind They reaped the whirlwind, The sufferings and losses and disasters to the Amori- can people from four years of demo- cratic tariff are vastly greater than those which came to them from four years of civil war.
 Out of all one great good remains. Those who scorned your counsels speedily witnessed the fulfillment of your prophecies, and even as the scourged and repentant Israeltes ab- iured their stupid idols and resumed unquestioning alliance to Moses and to Noses God, so now your countrymsn, shamed of their errors, turn to you and to those glorious principles for which you stand, in the full belief that in your candidacy and the republican platform the end of the wilderness has come, and the promised land of Amer ican prosperity is again to them an en- sured inheritance
 But your nomination means more than the indorsement of a protective tariff, of reciprocity, of sound filonay and of honest finance, for all of which you have so steadfastly stood It means an indorsement of your heroic youth, your fruitful years of arduous public service, your sterling patriotism, your stalwart Americanism, your Christian character, and the purity fidelity and simplicity of your private