The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-07-02
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forms It's Duties at Cnnton-Chair-
man Tlaurston Makes the Nott1tca-
ton Speech and Maj. Mckinley
NcPlies-Large Crowd Il Present
anton, Ohio, July 1.-The notifica-
ton committee reached here at lido.
Judges g. p. Baldwin, William r. Day
anu Henry A. Wise were at the depot
70 meet l the party with decorated tally.
nos and carriages. The parade was or
gained. the Grand Army band and the
citizens troop Of cavalry leading the
ehlcles occupied by the guests. Citi-
zel'a fell in behind end an enormous
crowd quickly gathered about the Nc
Finley home. The crowd was eror-
nous and the cheering was incessant.
Maj. Mckinley was cheered again and
again when he appeared The cere-
monies occurred on the lawn in front
OF MI. Mckinley's house
Formally Notified
! Chairman Thurston addressed Alai Mo-
hinley as follows:
NOV. MCKINLEY: We are here to perform
the pleasant duty assigned us by the Re
publican national convention, recently as
semb!ed in St Louis, that of formally no
!lIylns you OF your nomination as the can
dldate OF the Republican party for presi-
dent Of the United States. We respectfully
request your acceptance of this nomination
| anu your approval of the declaration Of
principles adopted by the convention r
we assure you that you are the unani-
nous choice of a united party, and your,
candidacy will be Immediately accepted by,
the country as an absolute guaranty Of
Republican success. Your nomination has
been made i'll obedience to a popular de-
mand, whose universally and spontaneity
attest the affection and confidence of tho
plain people of the United States. BY COM
mon consent you are their champion. Their
mighty uprising in your belaif emphasizes
their conversion to the cardinal principles
OF protection and reciprocity as best ex-
empllhed in that splendid congressional act
Which justly bears your name Under it
TINS nation advanced to the very culniina-
tlon OF a prosperity far surprising that OF
all other peoples and all other times: Il
prosperity shared in by all sections, all
interests, and all classes; by capital and
lapor; py producer and consumer; a pros
perlty SO happily in harmony with the Sc
MUS of popular government that is
choicest blessings were most widely dis
tributed among the lowliest toilers and the
humblest homes
In 1882, your country, unmndful of your
tooASAAAAA
power which reiterated it's everlasting. op-
position to protective tariff and demanded
the repeal of the Mckinley act They
sowed the wind. They reaped the whirl-
wind The sufferings and losses and dis
asters 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 counsels speedily witnessed
the fulhllment OF your prophecies, and
even as the scourged and repentant Israeli
ties abjured their stupid idols and re-
sumed unquestioping allegiance to Moses
and Moses God, so now your countrymen,
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 anu the
promised land of American prosperity is
again to them an insured Inheritance. =
But your nomination means more than
the endorsement of g protective tariff of
reciprocity, of sound money and of honest
finance, for all Of which you have SO stead
lastly stood. It means an endorsement of
your heroic youth; your fruitful years of
arduous public service; your sterling pa
triotism; your stalwart Americanism; your
Christian character, and the purity, fidelity
and simplicity of your private life. In all
these things you are the typical American;
fos all these things you are the chosen
leader OF the people. God give you strength
to 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 administration will enhance the
dignity and power anG glory of this repub-
lie, and secure the safety, welfare and hap
piness OF it's liberty-loying people.
Mckinley Replies.
As Mr.. Mckinley stepped forward to re-
ply he was given an ovation. When the
cheering ceased he spoke as follows:
Senator Thurston and Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee Of the Republican
National Convention: To be selected as
their presidential candidate, by great
number Of people Of the United
States. is a most distinguished honor,
for which / would not conceal my
nigh appreciation, although deeply sensible
OF the great responsibilities Of the
trust, and my inability to bear them with
out the generous and constant support Of
my fellow.countrymen. Great as is the
honor conferred, equally arGuous and I'M
Dortant Is the duty imposed, ard in %ac-
ceptlng the one assume the other, relying
upon the patriotic devotion OF the people
to the best interests of our beloved coun-
try, and the sustaining care and aid OF Him
without whose support all we do is empty
and vain. Should the people ratffy the
choice Of the great convention for which
you speak, my only aim will be to pro-
AioeC LIE puUiiC SOOu, WHICH III 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 Inn
portant as any of the great governmental
problems that. have confronted us in the
past Gnarter Of a century. They command
our sober Judgment and settlement free
from partisan prejudice and passion, bene-
ncial to ourselves and betting the honor
and grandeur OF *the republic. They touch
every interest Of our common country
Our Industrial supremacy, our productive
capacity, our business and commercial pros
perity. our labor and its rewards, our ma
tional credit and currency. our proud finarl-
cial honesty and our splendid free citizen
ship-the birthright Of every man-are all
involved in the pending campaign, and
thus every home in the land is directly and
Intimately connected with their proper set
Element Great are the issues involved in
the coming election and eager and earnest
the people for the rights and determine
ton. Our domestic trade must be won
back and our idle workmen employed III
gainful occupations at American wages
Our home market must be@restored to its
proud rank of first in the world, and our
IN ION do