The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-06-30
MKINLEY HAS
BEEN NOTIFIED
Senator ThnrstOn, Of the Committee.
Delivers an Able Address
In Canton.
CHOICE OF A UNITED PARTY
his Nomination. Means More Than an Ca
dOrsement Of Protective Tariff. Re-
eiprOeisy. ste.-kilsOn's Bril-
liant Sally.
Special to the Astorian.

Special TO the Astorian.
Canton, Ohio, June 29.-Ex-Goverror
Mckinley was today officially notified
Of his nomination for president by
the committee appointed by the Repub-
llcan convention. Senator Thurston
made the notification speech. Cover
nor Mckinley made fitting response
In his speech Senator Thurston said:
Governor McKinley-We are here 70
perform the pleasant duty assigned us
by the Republican national convention
recently assembled in 81. Louis. that
OF formally notifying you Of your nom
ination as the candidate Of the Repub-
lican party for president Of the United
States. We respectfully request your
acceptance Of this nomination and your
approval Of the declaration Of princi-
Piles adopted by the convention.
We assure you that you are the
unanimous choice Of united party
and your candidacy win be Immediate
ly accepted by the country as an abso-
lutte guarantee Of Republican success
Your nomination has been made in
obedience to popular demand. 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
This mighty uprising in your behalf
emphasizes the sincerity OF their con-
version to the cardinal principles Of
protection and reciprocity as best ex-
emplihed in that splendid congression-
al act which justly bears your name.
Under 1t this nation advanced to the
very elimination of prosperity. far sur
/ passing that Of all other peoples and
all other times; prosperity shared 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 its choicest blessings
were most widely distributed among
the lowliest toiIers and the humblest
homes.
| In 1892 your countrymen, unmindfui
of your solmen warnings. returned that
party to power which reiterated its
everlasting opposition to a protective
tariff and demanded the repeal Of the
Mckinley act They sowed to the
wind; they reaped the whirlwind.
The sufferings and losses and disas-
tiers 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 councils speed
lily witnessed the fulhllment of your
prophecies and even as the scourged
and repentant Israelites abjured their
stupid idols and resumed unquestion-
! ing allegiance to Moses and to Moses
God, so now your countrymen. shamed
of their errors. turn to you and to those
I glorious principles for which you stand.
I in the full belief that your candidacy
and the Republican platform mean
that the end of the wilderness has
come and the promised land of Amer
lean prosperity is again to them an In
I sured inheritance.
But your nomination means more
than the endorsement Of a protective
tariff, reciprocity, of sound money and
of honest finance 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 in your private life. In all
these things you are the typical Amer
lean; 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 win be
elected, that your administration viii
enhance the dignity and power and glo-
ry of this republic and secure the safe
ty, welfare and happiness Of its liberty
loving people.
Delegate-at-large Henry L. Wilson
of the state of Washington. brother Of
Senator Wilson. said;
IT am not the author Of the Wilson
bill. The Republicans of my section
have been deeply interested in th'
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