Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-29
RINGDOVES and RAPTURES
In a Gushing Speech, Thurst0n This
Afternoon Notified Mckinley of
His Nomination..
FULL TEXT OF M'KINLEY'S RESPONSE
After Lot of Preliminary Rot About
Protection and Reciprocity, the Can
ton Statesman Swallows the
Gold Standard Platform.


Gold Standard Platform.
Cleveland, June 29.-The committee
appointed by the st. Louis convention to
notify ex-Gov. Mckinley of his nomina-
tion for the presidency assembled at the
Holden hotel at $3.50 to-day. After being
photographed in a group, the committee,
headed by Senator Thurston and M. A.
Hanna, marched to the Valley railway
station, where special train was boarded
for Canton. The train pulled out few
minutes after 10 O'Clock and is due in
Canton at IL O'Clock.
Senator Thurston, chairman, stated
that the committee would gn direct from
the train to McKinley's residence. Fol-
lowing the address by Thurston and the
response by Mckinley, Henry l.. Smith,
of Michigan, will present the ex-governor
with gavel made from log taken from
the house in which Abraham Lincoln
lived during his childhood. The party
will spend about four hours in Canton,
the train being scheduled to leave there
on it's return trip at 4 p. m.
ROUND OF RArrUREs AT CANTON.
Canton, June 29.-The notification COM
nlittee reached Canton at l:50 p. m. The
permanent reception committee, lately
organized, was at the depot to meet the
party. A decorated tally-ho and car
riages were in waiting. parade was
organized, the Grand Army band and
citizens troop of cavalry leading the
vehicles. Citizens fell in behind and an
s,~S Al, rvnkh
about the Mckinley home.
just as the crowd was quieting down
Gov. Mckinley stepped out on the porch
and cheer after cheer was given.
Senator Thurston stepped upon the
porch and delivered the official notifca-
tion. He was frequently interrupted BY
cheers.
Following Is the speech of Hon. John
W. Thurston, of Nebraska, notifying
William Mckinley of his nominations:
Governor McKinley-We are here to
perform the pleasant duty assigned us by
the Republican national convention re-
Gently assembled in st. Louis, that of for
mally notifying you of your nomination
as the candidate of the Republican party
for president of the United States.
We respectfully request your accept
ance of this nomination aud your ap-
proval of the declaration of principles
adopted by the convention.
We assure you that You are the unani-
nous choice of united party and your
candidacy 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 peo-
pie Of the United States. By common
consent you are their champion. This
mighty uprising in your behalf empha-
sizes the sincerity of their conversion to
the cardinal principles of
PROTECTION AND RECIPROCITY.
as best exemplifed in that splendid
congressional act which Justly bears
your name. Under it this nation ad-
vanced to the very elimination of pros
perity far surprising that of all other
people and all other times; pros
perity shared in by all sections; all inter-
ests and all classes, by capital and la
Dor; by producer and consumer;a pros
perity SO happily in harmony with the
genius of popular government that it's
choicest blessings were most widely dis
tributed among the lowliest toilers and
humblest homes.
In 1892 your countrymen, unmindfol of
your solemn warnings, returned that
party to power which reiterated it's ever
lasting opposition to protective tariff
and demanded the repeal of the Mckinley
act. They sowed the wind. They reaped
the whirlwind.
The sufferlngs and losses and disasters
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 1t all one great good remains.
Those who scorned your counsels speedily
witnessed the fulfllment of your prophe.
sizes, and even as the scourged and re-
pentant Israelites abjured their stupid
idols and resumed unquestioning allie
glance to Moses and to Moses God, 50 now
your countrymen, shamed Of their errors
turn to you and to those glorious princi.
pies for which you stand, in the full be-
lief that your candidacy and
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
mean that the end of the wilderness hat
come and the promised land of American
prosperity is again to them an insured
inheritence.
But your nomination means more thar
the Endorsement of a protective tariff
of reciprocity, of honest money and O.
honest finance, for all of which you hav'
80 steadfastly stood. 1t means an in
dorsement of your heroic youth; you
fruitful years of arduous public service
your sterling patriotism; your stalwar
Americanism; your Christian character
and the open purity, fidelity and simplicit!
of your private life. In all these thing
you are the typical American; for al
these things you are the chosen leader o
the people. God give you strength to 81
bear the honors and meet the duties 0
that great Office for which you are nov
nominated and to which you will b
elected, that your administration will on
hance the dignity and power and glor
Of this republic and secure the safety
welfare and happiness Of it's liberty lov
ing people.
At 2:2O p. m. Gov. Mckinley arose I
respond and the cheering was renewed
When quiet was restored he spoke as fol
lows:
MAJOR M'KINLEY's REPLY.
In response to Senator Thurston's &C
dress Major Mckinley said: SHOULD th
people ratify the choice OF the great COZ
vention for which you speak, my only ali
will be to promote the public good, whic
in America is always good to the creates
number, the honor Of our country and tt
welfare of its people. Protection an
reciprocity, twin measures Of true Anne
ican policy, should again command Il