The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-30
MKNI IL MRTILIEn
Forcible Address by Governor Me-
KinIcy in Accepting the Honor
and Approving the Platform.
STATEMENT OF THE ISSUES
GREAT STRESS LAID ON THE Me-
CEssITY OF MORE REVENUE.
Every Form of American Money
ssMust BE as Good as the Best In
the WOrld--Other Speeches.

CANTON. O.. June 2s-The notification
committee appointed by the Republican ma
tional convention to-day formally notified
Governor Mckinley of his nomination as
the candidate of the party for the presi-
dency. Senator Thurston, chairman of the
committee, made the notification speech
and the nominee accepted the honor in elo-
quent terms. The notification committee
met at the Hollenden House in Cleveland al
$3.50 a. m. After being photographed in
group in front of the hotel the committee,
headed by Senator Thurston and Hon. NJ.
A. Hanna, marched to the Valley Railway
and Terminal Company station, where
special train was boarded for Canton. The
train pulled out of the station few min
ures after 10 o'clock. A number of prom
inent Republicans accompanied the com
mittec on the trip. making the total number
of persons on the train about one hundred.
In the party were w. f. Airey, Maryland;
c. d. Alexander, Alabama: G. II. Deers.
Illinois; Hiram Brownlee, Indiana; John
Bresler Nevada l.. NJ. Bernard. North
Carolina; James W. Brock, Vermont; ]. s.
Browning. Virginia; w. d. Frazee. Missis-
sippi; NJ. F. B. Jefferson, Massachusetts;
u. T. Linen. West Virginia; Henry G.
Morse Delaware; Calvin Manning. Iowa;
]. p McCarty, New York: 7. j. O'Brien,
Michigan; George Sykes. Connecticut; Hen
ry H. Smith, Washington, d. c.; w. d.
Sawyer New Hampshire: c. E. Townsend.
Maine; II. L. Wilson, Washington; II. A.
Husse Vermont: j. A. Buckles. Oklahoma;
j. W. Butler. Texas; Ernest Caldwell, Ten
nessee; J. W. Darlington. Arizona; Jacob
ID. Early. Indiana; Denis Egan, Florida:
Theodore l.. Wood. Pennsylvania; Joesph
Folt:. Indian Territory; Charles Hilton,
Oregon: c. S. johnson, Alaska; Robert
Maxwell New York; N. G.. Nickerson, Wy
oming: NJ. c. Ring, Wisconsin; j. c. SAM
born. Rhode Island; Walter Smede, South
Dakota: Senator Frank Hiscock, New
York: General McAipin and Mr.. A. 3. Hum
phreys New York; Hon. NJ. A. Hanna and
Sylvester T. Everett, Cleveland
The party reached Canton at 11:40 a. m.
The permanent reception committee. lately
organized for the campaign. headed by
Judges George E. Baldwin, William r. Day
and Henry A. Wise. at the depot to
meet the party. Decorated tally-hos and
carriages were in waiting at the station.
procession was organized, the Grand
Army band and the citizens troop of cav
airy leading the vehicles occupied by the
nous crowd quickly gathered about the
Mckinley home where the duties of the
committee were discharged. and where the
general public had been informally invited
through press notices. On arriving at the
Mckinley home the committee and guests
found an enormous crowd assembled about
the residence But an open space on the
north side was reserved and the party was
quickly seated on the camp chairs pro-
vided. Just as the crowd was quieting
down Governor Mckinley stepped out on
the porch and was given a most enthusias-
tic ovation, cheer after cheer rising from
the crowd.
senator Thurston's Address.
Senator Thurston stepped up on the porch
and in his fiery eloquence delivered the
official notification. He said:
Governor McKinley-we are here to
perform the pleasant duty assigned US by
Gently assembled in ST. Louis-that of for
mally notifying you Of your nomination as
the Sanddafe at tpa of the hePgSean party for
spectfuily request your acceptance of this
nomination and your approval of the dec
vention. We assure you that you are the
unanimous choice of united party. and
your candidacy will be Immediately ac-
cepted by the country as an absolute guar
anty of Republican success.
Your nomination has been. in obedience
to a popular demand. whose universally
and spontaneity attest 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 principles
Of protection ana reciprocity as best ex-
emplified In that splendid congressional
act which justly bears your name. Under
II this Nation advanced to the very cul-
mination of a. prosperity far SURPRISING
hat ,f o1 9TH oil
times; a prosperity shared In by all sec
tions. all interests and all classes; by
capital and labor; by producers and con-
mony with the genius of popular govern
ment that its choicest blessings were most
ers sal and the humbiest homes. ~
In 1892 your countrymen, unmindfui Of
your solemn warnings, returned that par
ing opposition to a protective tariff and
demanded the repeal of the Mckinley act.
They sowed the wind; they reaped the
whirlwind The sufferings, and losses and
disasters to the American people from
four years of Democratic tariff are vastly
greater than those which came TO them
all one great good remains. Those who
scorned your counsels speedily witnessed
even eve as the scourged and repentant ai- is
raeites abjured their stupid idols and re-
sumed unquestioning allegiance to Moses
men, ashamed OF their errors, turn to you
and TO those glorious principles for which
your stand. in the full belief that your
candidacy aud the Republican platform
mean that the end of the wilderness has
come and the promised land OF American
prosperity Is again TO them an assured in
heritance.
But your domination means more than
the Endorsement OF protective tariff. of
est finance. for ali of which you have so
steadfastly stood II means Endorsement
Of your heroic youth, your fruitful years
M ste
patriotism your stalwart Americanism
your Christian character. and the purity