The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-30
Thurston Tells Why the Ohio
Statesman Is Chosen as
Standard-Beare
RINGING WORDS IN WHICH THE
HONOR IS ACCEPTED.
Protection to American Industries and
Preservation of the Nations
Credit Promised.

VAN 4ONS Od1Oy y u1S L0s-1 ne COmInIp-
tee, consisting of one member from each
State and Territory, selected at the st.
Louis Convention 10 convey to Major Nc
Kinley official notification of his nomina-
ton, arrived in Canton on a special train
from Cleveland at II 80 o'clock this morn
ing. It was met at the station by the re-
ception committee, and driven in open
! carriages to Major McKinley's residence,
| accompanied by mounted escorts.
The preparations at Major McKinley's
were simple. Seventy five chairs had
been placed on the front lawn under the
trees facing the house. Major Mckinley
received the members of the committee
on the verands. The streets about the
house were filed with men. women and
children. The crowd surged in at the
gates and pressed close upon the chairs.
Senator Thurston arose and, addressing
Mckinley, announced to him that he was
the choice of the National republican Con-
vention for President. He predicted the
overwhelming victory of the Republican
party. Senator Thurston said:
Governor Mckinley: We are here to perform
the pleasant duty assigned US by the Republi-
can National Convention recently assembled
in st. Louis, that of formally notifying you of
your nomination as the candidate of the Re-
publican party for the Presidency.
We respectfully request your acceptance of
this nomination and your approval of the
declaration of principles adopted by the con.
vention.
We assure you that you are the unanimous
choice of united party, and your candidacy
will De Immediately accepted by the country
as an absolute guaranty of Republican suc-
cess. Your nomination has been made in
!, obedience 10 a popular demand, attesting the
! affection and confidence of the plain people OF
| the United States. By common consent you
are their champion. Their mighty uprising
in your behalf emphasizes the sincerity of
their conversion to the cardinal princi-
| pies of protection aud reciprocity, as
| best exemplifed in that splendid act
/ which justly bears your name. Under it
! this Nation advanced to the very culmination
of prosperity; prosperity shared in by all
sections, all interests and all classes; by capi-
| tai and labor, by producer and consumer;
| 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 to
power which reiterated its everlasting opposi-
ton to protective tariff and demanded the
| repeal of the Mckinley act
They sowed the wind; they reaped the whirl.
wind
The suferings and losses and disasters to the
American people from 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 witnessed the fulilment of your
prophecies and even as the scourged and re-
pentant Israelites abjured their stupid idols
and resumed unquestioning allegiance to
Moses and to Moses God. so now your country
men, 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 and the prom
| ised land of American prosperity is again to
them an insured Inheritance.
| But your nomination means more than the
| Endorsement of q protective tariff, of reci-
| procity, of sound money and of honest finance,
J for all of which you have so steadfastly stood.
| 1t means an Endorsement 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 prl-
vate life. In all these things you are the typi-
cal American, for all these things you are the
chosen leader of the people.
| God give you strength to 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 election will en-
hance the dignity and power and glory of this
republic and for the safety welfare and happi-
ness of its hberty-loving people
Mckinley responded as follows:
Senator Thurston and gentlemen of the noti-
I fcation committee of the Republican Ma
tional Convention: To be selected as its
| Presidential candidate by great party con-
/ vennon representing so vast a number OF the
! people OF the United States is most distin-
guished honor tor which would not conceal
/ my high appreciation, although deeply sensi-
/ Bile of the great responsibilities OF the trust
and my inability to bear them without the
generous and constant support of my fellow
! countrymen. Great as is the honor con-
! ferred, equally arduous and important is the
| duty imposed and in accepting the one as
sumo the other, relying upon the patriotic de-
| votion of the people to the bestinterests OF
our beloved country and the sustaining care
aud 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 to promote 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 important
| as any of the great governmental problems
] that have confronted us in the past quarter Of
a century. They command our sober judg-
ment ana a settlement free from partisan
prejudice and passion, beneficial to ourselves
and beftting the honor and grandeur of the
Republic They touch every interest Of our
common country. Our industrial supremacy.
our productive capacity, our business aud COM
mercial prosperity. our labor and Its rewards,
cur National credit and our currency, our
proud financial honor and our splendid free
| citizenship-the birthright OF every American
ARE all involved in the pending campaign,
and thus every home in the land is directly