until the business of the Convention is concluded. The Chair will state that under the rules adopted by this Convention there will be a Committee of Notification: one for the Presidential notification and one for the Vice Presidential. The delegates from each State and Territory are therefore requested to prepare and have ready for announcement a member of each of these two committees. Pending the announcement of the vote, unless objection is made, the Chair will submit to the Convention the following resolution offered by General Grosvenor of Ohio, which the Secretary will read: THE OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS. The Secretary read the resolution as follows: "RESOLVED, That the Secretary of this Convention is hereby directed to prepare and publish a full and complete report of the official proceedings of this Convention, under the direction of the National Committee, co-operating with the local Committee." The Chairman then put the question and the resolution was unanimously adopted. Governor BUSHNELL, of Ohio. I desire to offer a resolution, which I will ask the Secretary to read. The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Ohio offers a resolution and unless objection is made, after it is read it will be offered to the Convention for its action. The clerk then read the resolution as follows: THE NOTIFICATIONS. RESOLVED, That the permanent Chairman of this Convention, Hon. John M. Thurston, be appointed Chairman of the Committee to notify Hon. William McKinley of his nomination for President; and that the Temporary Chairman, Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks be appointed Chairman of the Committee to notify the Vice-Presidential nominee of his nomination." The question was then put to the Convention on the adoption of the resolution, and the same was unanimously carried. THANKS TO THE OFFICERS. Governor HASTINGS, of Pennsylvania. I am instructed by the unanimous voice of the Pennsylvania delegation, to offer a vote of thanks to the Temporary Chairman, the Permanent Chairman, the Secretary, the Sergeant at Arms, the Official Reporter and the other officers of this Convention. This vote has been seconded by every State in the Convention, and if you will permit me, I will usurp the authority of the President for a moment and put the question. Governor Hastings then put the motion which was carried unanimously. Chairman THURSTON. The Chair in returning thanks for so much of the resolution as relates to the present occupant of the Chair, desires to express heartfelt thanks to every member of this Convention for the uniform kindness, courtesy and assistance shown during all the proceedings of this Convention. THANKS TO THE LOCAL COMMITTEE. Governor BUSHNELL, of Ohio. I desire to move in behalf of the delegation from Ohio, and the delegates from all the States to this Convention, a vote of thanks to the Local Committee, the people of St. Louis, and to all who have taken part in the arrangements for the Convention, and the provision of this magnificent hall, for the manner in which every obligation and promise has been met, and for the generous entertainment of delegates and visitors. The resolution was seconded simultaneously from several delegations and carried by acclamation. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair notifies the Convention that the two Committees on notification, when selected, are requested to meet at the Southern Hotel to-morrow morning at eleven o'clock. Mr. FAIRBANKS. Mr. Chairman, I arise for the purpose of returning to the Convention my heartfelt thanks for the generous resolution of your endorsement. I account it a great honor to have been called upon to preside even for a brief time over this greatest of Republican Conventions, and I congratulate the American people upon the splendid work of this Convention. VOTE ON VICE-PRESIDENT. Chairman THURSTON. Gentlemen of the Convention: Your vote for the Vice Presidential nominee is as follows: Hobart, 5331⁄2; Evans, 2802; Bulkeley, 39; Walker, 24; Lippelt, 8; Grant, 2; Depew, 3; Morton, 1; Thurston, 2. MADE UNANIMOUS. Gentlemen of the Convention. The question stands upon making this nomination unanimous. So many as favor making the nomination of Garrett A. Hobart unanimous will rise. Apparently all the delegates rose to their feet, and the Chairman said: It is unanimous, Gentlemen of the Convention. THE DECLARATION. By virtue of the unanimous vote of this Convention and the authority vested in the Chair, Garrett A. Hobart is declared to be the nominee of the Republican party for Vice President. NOTIFICATION COMMITTEE. The CHAIRMAN: Gentlemen of the Convention: The question is now on appointing the Committee to notify the President and the Vice President of their nomination by this Convention. It is the request of the Chair that the names be sent up in writing with the address of each member. The Secretary called the roll. In response to the roll call the following committees to notify the candidates were chosen. TO NOTIFY PRESIDENT. Michigan. South Carolina.. Utah.. Vermont. Virginia Washington. Wyoming. New Mexico. Oklahoma. District of Columbia.. C. D. Alexander .M. B. V. Jefferson .Frank Hiscock Theodore L. Flood .E. H. Deos Walter E. Smead Alabama.. Arkansas.. California. Connecticut. Delaware. Florida.. Georgia. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa.... Kansas.. Kentucky. Maine... Maryland. TO NOTIFY VICE PRESIDENT. ...W. R. Pettiford John Hadis .Isaac L. Edwards Williard J. Hale R. A. Alger A. D. Davidson .J. E. Ousley .B. F. Leonard John T. Bressler James A. Wood ...W. Barbour .Lispenard Stewart .J. H. Hannon J. M. Devine ..George Ketchum .Charles W. Parrish H. S. Jenney .C. J. Pride H. T. Meacham .H. C. Jarvis J. O. Lubby .J. A. Smith Edward C. Smith ...R. T. Hubbard James N. Gilbert P. E. Houston Julius Rohrer ..B. F. Fowler .Pedro Perea William Grimes Upon the conclusion of the calling of the roll of States, upon motion, Chairman Thurston declared the Convention adjourned sine die. The hour of adjournment was 7:53 p. m. JAMES FRANCIS BURKE, JOHN JAY Burke, Attest: CHARLES W. JOHNSON, Official Reporters. Secretary of the Convention. NOTIFICATION OF GOV. MCKINLEY. The members of the Committee on Notification of the Candidate for President assembled at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 28th of June, and on the 29th of June, proceeded by special train to Canton, the home of the nominee, the Hon. William McKinley, to discharge that duty. Hon. Mark A. Hanna, chairman of the committee was in charge of the party. The speech of notification was made by Hon. John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, the President of the Convention and was as follows: "Governor McKinley-We are here to perform a pleasant duty assigned us by the Republican national convention recently assembled at St. Louis-that of formally notifying you of your nomination as the candidate of the Republican party for president of the United States. We respectfully request your acceptance of this nomination and your approval of the declaration of the principles adopted by the convention. We assure you that you are the unanimous choice of a 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 spontaniety 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 and reciprocity as best exemplified in that splendid congressional act which justly bears your name. all by "Under it this nation advanced to the very culmination of prosperity, far surpassing that of all other peoples and all other times; a prosperity shared in by sections, all interests and all classes; capital and labor, by producer and sumer; prosperity so happily in harmony with the genius of popular government that its choicest blessings were most widely distributed among the lowliest toilers and the humblest homes. con "In 1892 your countrymen, unmindful of your solemn warnings, returned that party to power which reiterated its everlasting opposition to a protective tariff and de manded 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 from four years of civil war. "Out of it all one great good remains. Those who scorned your counsels speedily witnessed the fulfillment of your prophecies, and, even as the scourged and repentant Israelites abjured their stupid idols and resumed unquestioning allegiance to Moses and to 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 in your candidacy and the Republican platform the end of the wilderness has come and the promised land of American prosperity is again to them an assured inheritance. "But your nomination means more than the indorsement of a protective tariff, of reciprocity, of sound money and of honest finance, for all of which you have so steadfastly stood. It means an indorsemnt of your heroic youth, your fruitful years of arduous public service, your sterling patriotism, your stalwart Americanism, your Christain character and the purity, fidelity and simplicity of your private life. In all these things you are the typical American; for in all these things you are the chosen leader of the people. God give you strength so 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 and glory of this Republic and secure the safety, welfare and happiness of its liberty loving people." |