San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-29
M'KINLEY NOTIFIED.
OFFICIAL COMMITTEE GIVEN A
CORDIAL WELCOME.
Great Street Parade From DepOt-Re-
ceptiOn at McKinley's Home-His
Acceptance Speech.

bers of the committee appointed by
the st. Louis convention to notify ex-
Governor Mckinley of his nomination
as candidate for the presidency as
sembled this morning at $50. After
being photographed in group the
committee, headed Ex-senator Thurs
ton and NJ. 4. Hanna, marched to the
Valley railroad station, where spe-
cial train was boarded for Canton. A
number of prominent Republicans ac-
companied the committee on the trip,
making the total number of persons
on the train about one hundred. The
train is due in Canton about II o.
clock. Senator Thurston, chairman of
the committee, stated that the COM
mittee would go direct from the train
at Canton to Governor McKinley's
residence. Following the address by
Senator Thurston and response by
Governor Mckinley, Henry l.. Smith,
of Michigan, will present to the gov
ernor a gavel made from log taken
from the house in which Abraham
Lincoln lived during his childhood.
Canton, O., June 29.-The notifica-
ton committee reached Canton at
IL 40 this morning The permanent
reception committee, lately organized
for the campaign, headed by Judges
George E. Baldwin, VIM. r. Day and
Henry A. Wise, were at the depot to
meet the party. Decorated tallyhos
and carriages were in waiting at the
station. A parade was organized, the
Grand Army band and Citizens troop
of cavalry leading the vehicles occu-
pied by the guests. The citizens fell
in behind and an enormous crowd
quickly gathered about the Mckinley
home, where the duties of the COM
mittee were discharged and where the
general public had been informally
invited through press notices.
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH.
In reply to the committees notifica-
ton, Major Mckinley spoke, as fol
lows:
senator Thurston and members of
the notification committee of the Re-
publican National convention; To be
selected as their presidential candidate
by great party convention, represent
ing so vast a number of the people of
the United States, is most distin-
guish honor for which l would not
conceal my high appreciation, al
though deeply sensible of the great re-
sponsibilities of the trust and my ina
bility to bear them without the gener-
Gus and constant support of my fellow
countrymen. Great as is the honor
conferred, equally arduous and impor-
tant is the duty imposed, and in ac-
cepting the one L assume the other, re-
lying upon the patriotic interests of
the people for developing our country
and the sustaining aid of Him, with
out whose support all we do is in vain
and empty.
SHOULD the people ratify the
choice of the party 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 our people.
lie uutStlOllS W Dt SClllCu III lhO
national contest this year are as seri-
GUS and important as any of the great
government problems that have con-
fronted us in the past quarter of a
century They command our sober
judgment and a settlement free from
party prejudices and passion, benefi-
cial to ourselves and benefitting the
honor and grandeur of the republic.
They touch every interest of our COM
mon country, our industrial supre-
macy, our manufacturing capacity,
our business and commercial prosper
ity, and labor and its rewards, our ma
tional credit and currency, our finan-
cial honor, and our splendid birth
right-the prosperity of every Ameri-
can, are all pending in the campaign,
and thus every home in the land is
directly and intimately connected with
their proper settlement. Great are the
issues involved in the coming election
and eager and earnest the people for
their right determination. Our domes-
tic trade must be won back and our
idle working people employed in gain
full occupations at American wages.
Our home market must be restored to
its proud rank of first in the world,
and our foreign trade, so precipitately
cut off by adverse national legisla-
ton, re-opened on fair and equitable
terms for our surplus agricultural and
manufacturing products. Protection
and reciprocity are twin measures of
true American policy and should again
receive the earnest encouragement of
the government at Washington. Pub
lie confidence must be resumed, and
the skill, the energy and the capital of
our country find ample employment at
home, sustained, encouraged and de-