JERSEY CITY, N. J., June 19.

MRS. GARRET A. HOBART :-Accept my warmest congratulations on your husband's nomination.

FLAVEL MCGEE.

ANSONIA, CONN., June 19.

G. A. HOBART :-Accept congratulations. Hobart, Honesty, and Hurrah, all begin with H.

W. F. OSBORNE.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 19.

HON. G. A. HOBART:-Accept heartiest congratulations from a grateful friend. Merit never goes unrewarded.

S. D. HOFFMAN.

NEW YORK, June 19.

HON. G. A. HOBART :-The Kearny Republican sends heartfelt congratulations to its early friend, now the nation's choice.

WILLIAM LOGAN.

J. A. STOWE.

NEW YORK, June 19, 1896.

G. A. HOBART :-New Jersey's favorite son will be the next Vice-President. I congratulate.

W. H. FURMAN.

PARIS, June 19, 1896.

To HON. G. A. HOBART, PATERSON, N. J.-Cordial congratulations.

HENRY C. KELSEY.

SPRING LAKE, N. J., June 18.

MRS. G. A. HOBART, PATERSON, N. J. :-Myself and family send congratulations to you and your husband's proud

success to-day.

JAMES S. CLARKSON.

NEW YORK, June 19.

HON. G. A. HOBART :-Accept my heartiest congratulations upon a deserved honor conferred on you and New Jersey. W. J. CURTIS.

ST. PAUL, MINN., June 19.

TO GARRET A. HOBART :-Accept congratulations from the Mississippi. Bravo, New Jersey!

ROBERT SEWELL.

CLAYTON, N. J., June 19.

To G. A. HOBART:-As glass manufacturers we congratulate you upon your nomination for Vice-Presidency.

MOORE BROS. GLASS CO.

PARIS, June 19, 1896.

To HON. G. A. HOBART:-Carnegie joins in heartiest congratulations, feeling that prosperity is now insured for our Republic.

KING.

ERIE DEPOT, NEWARK, June 19.

GARRET A. HOBART, NEXT VICE-PRESIDENT U. S. :-I told See my letter in November.

you so.

THOMAS A. MURPHEY.

ELKINS, W. VA., June 19.

The

HON. G. A. HOBART, PATERSON, N. J. :-Mrs. Elkins joins her warmest congratulations to Mrs. Hobart and yourself on the great honor, well-deserved, that has come to you. ticket is strong and the people will see that it is elected. Hope to see you soon. S. B. ELKINS.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., June 19.

HON. G. A. HOBART, PATERSON, N. J.:-Accept sincere congratulations upon your nomination. With such a cause and such a ticket we cannot fail.

GEO. C. PERKINS, U. S. Senator.

ALBANY, N. Y., June 18. GARRET A. HOBART :-At a meeting of the Unconditional Republican Club, held this evening, the following was adopted: Resolved, That the Unconditional Republican Club, of Albany, N. Y., has heard with enthusiasm the nominations by the Republican National Convention of these staunch patriots, sagacious statesmen, and typical Americans, William McKinley and Garret A. Hobart for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States, and pledges to them the loyal and earnest support of each and every one of its seven hundred members.

CHARLES C. FINCH, Secretary.

A great many more were received.

The following telegrams have been exchanged:

ST. LOUIS, June 19.

HON. WILLIAM MCKINLEY, CANTON :-Accept my hearty congratulations and those of the New Jersey delegation.

GARRET A. HOBART.

CANTON, O., June 19.

HON. GARRET A. HOBART, ST. LOUIS-I send you my cordial congratulations and wish you might visit me on WILLIAM MCKINLEY.

your way home.

CHAPTER XXI.

MAJOR MCKINLEY FORMALLY NOTIFIED OF HIS NOMINATION.

Chairman Thurston's address to the nominee-McKinley's reply, briefly outlining the issues of the coming campaign-Stands squarely on the Republican platform-The financial honor of the country must be preserved inviolate-Every dollar issued by the Government must be as good as gold-A tariff to protect American labor and raise revenue.

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HE Committee, consisting of one member from each State and Territory, which was selected at the St. Louis Convention to convey to Major McKinley the official notification of his nomination, arrived in Canton on a special train from Cleveland at 11.30 o'clock, June 29th.

They were met at the station by a reception committee, composed of some of the foremost citizens of Canton, and were driven in open carriages to Major McKinley's residence, accompanied by a mounted

escort.

The preparations at Major McKinley's were simple. Seventy-five chairs were placed on the front lawn, under the trees and facing the house. On the rear lawn a large tent was erected, and in it was a

long table, on which covers were laid for a hun

dred guests.

Major McKinley received the members of the Committee on the veranda. The streets about the house were filled with men, women, and children. The crowd surged in all the gates and pressed close up to the chairs on which they sat. Major McKinley likes to have the people participate as interested spectators in all the functions which take place here. He does not believe in excluding them. Nor will he allow ropes to be stretched across the yard for the purpose of restricting the movements or freedom of the great crowds that come to his home.

The last time Major McKinley saw a Presidential candidate notified of his nomination was four years ago, in Washington. The scene of the action was the White House. Benjamin Harrison was the candidate, and William McKinley made the speech of notification. Harrison, doomed to crushing defeat, stood in the spacious East Room, surrounded by his Cabinet, and a concourse of distinguished people was present. Generals, admirals, diplomats, and men and women of high place in civil life, made up the impressive group.

Now William McKinley, surrounded only by his family, and by the common people, who love him well, standing before his own unpretentious home, listened to the speech, which told him in a formal, official, final way, that he had been chosen as the Presidential candidate of the Republican party.