The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-30

CLEVELAND, June 29-The COM
mittee appointed by the St Louis
convention to notify Ex-Governor Nc
Kinley of his nomination for the
presidency assembled at the Hollenden
hotel at $3.50 a. m. today After being
photographed in a group, the commit
tee, headed by Senator Thurston and
Mark Hanna, marched to the Valley
railway station, where a special train
was boarded for Canton. Prominent
Republicans accompanied the COM
mittee, making a total number on
the train about 100. The train is due
Git Canton about - O'Clock. Thurston,
chairman of the committee, stated that
the committee would go direct from
TIE train to Governor Mckinley S
residence. Following the address by
Senator Thurston and response by
Governor Mckinley, Henry L. Smith
of Michigan will present the ex-gov-
ernor with a gavel made from log
taken from the house in which Lincoln
lived during his childhood. The party
viii spend about four hours at Canton,
the train being scheduled to leave
there on the return trip at p. m.
AT CANTON, OHIO.
The notification committee reached
Canton on the Cleveland Terminal &
Valley special at 11:z0.
An open space was reserved for the
guests and the party was quickly seat
ed upon cane chairs. Mrs. Mckinley
occupied the front porch. Just as the
crowd was quoting down Governor
Mckinley stepped out on the front
porch and cheer after cheer was given.
Thurston stepped upon the porch and
delivered his official notification. He
was frequently interrupted by cheer
ing AT 1920 Governor Mckinley arose
10 respond and the cheering was re-
newed.
THURSTON'S ADDRESS.
Governor Mckinley: We are here
10 perform the pleasant duty assigned
us by the Republican national CONVEX
ton recently assembled in 81. LOUIS
shat of formally notifying you OF your
nomination az the candidate CT the
Republican party for president of the
United States.
I'VE. respectfully request your ac-
ceptance of this nomination and your
approval of the declaration of princl-
pies adopted by the convention.
1--WE assure YOU that you are the
unanimous choice of united party
and your candidacy will be irnmedi-
a+eIy accepted by the country as an
absolute guarantee of Republican sue
cess.
Your nomination has been made in
\ obedience to a popular demand whose
universally and spontaniety attest
the affection and confidence of the
plain people of the United States.
BY COMMON CONSENT
you are their champion. This mighty
uprising in your behalf emphasizes the
sincerity of their conversion to the
cardinal principles of protection and
reciprocity as best eXemplified in that
splendid congressional act which justly
bears your name Under it this nation
advanced to the very elimination OF
prosperity far SURPRISING that OF all
other neople and all other times; a
prosperity shared in by all sections
all interests and all classes; by capt.
tai and labor by producer and con-
sumer-a prosperity so happily in hsr-
mony with the
GENTrS OF POPULAR GOVERN
MENT
THAT its choicest blessings were most
iwidely distributed among the lowliest
tOilers and the humblest homes.
IN 1892 your countrymen, unmindful
OF your solemn warnings, returned
that Darty to power which reiterated
its everlasting opposition to a protect
i've tariff and demanded the repeal of
the Mckinley act They sowed the
wind. They reaped the wllirlwind
The sufIerings and losses and dis
asters TO the American people from
four years of Democratic tariff are
vastly greater than those which come
TO them from four years of civil war.
Out Of it all one great good remains.
Those who scorned your counssls speed
lily witnessed the fulfllment of your
prcphesies. and even as The scourged
and repentant Israelites abjured their
stupid idols and resumed unquestion-
ing allegiance to Moses and TO Moses
Cod. so now your countrymen. shamed
by their errors. turn to you and to
those glorious principles for which you
stand.
IN THE FULL BELIEF
that your candidacy and the Republic
can platform mean that the end Of the
wilderness has come and the promised
land of American prosperity is again
10 them an insured inheritance.
But your nomination means more
than the endorsement Of a protective
tariff reciprocity, of sound money and
az 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 SER
vice: your sterling patriotism; your
stalwart AInericanis1n: your Christian
character. and the purity. fidelity and
simplicity of your private life. In all
Of these you are the typical Ameri-
can: for 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
,saI1 he a1a 4nI hot
administration will enhance the dig
nifty and power and glory of this re-
public and secure the safety, welfare
and happiness OF its liberty loving peo-
ple'
M'KINLEY'S REPLY.
"Senator Thurstnn and gentlemen Of
the notification committee of the Re-
publican National Convention:
ITO be selected as their presidential
candidate by A great party convention
representing so vast a number of the
people of the United States. is most
distinguished honor, for which ] would
not conceal my high appreciation, al
though deeply sensible of the great re-
sponsibiliEies 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 con.
ferred, equally arduous and important
is the duty imposed, and in accepting
The same / assume the other, relying
upon the patriotic devotion of the peo-
pie to the best interests OF our be-
loved country and the sustaining care
and aid Of him without whose support
all we do is empty and vain. Should
the people ratify the choice of the great
convention for which you speak. my
only aim will be to promote the pub
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