Show KNOWS IT NOW Whitelaw Reid Officially Notified of His Nomination The Address of notification Delivered by Senator Sen-ator Dubois Reid in Replying Pays Tribute to Blame NEW YORK June HTha committee to notify Whitelaw Reid of his nomination for vicepresident went to Ophir Farm Reids country residence near White Plains where they proceeded to carry out their instructions THE ADDRESS XOTIFICATIOX was delivered by Senator Dubois The speech was very brief I referred in well chosen terms to the nomination by tho Minneapolis convention and adverted to the fact that it came unsought and with rare unanimity and then continued Your constant consistent and effective advocacy of Republican measures for many years and tho honor and dignity with which you represented our country abroad have merited mer-ited for you this distinction Tho American Ameri-can people appreciate the patient skillful diplomacy by which you opened the market mar-ket of France to the products of the American Amer-ican farmer We believe the people will sustain the Republican principles and endorse en-dorse the personalities of our standard bearers and that the wisdom of our selection selec-tion at Minneapolis will be fully demonstrated demon-strated by your triumphant election at the polls in November MK REID KEPIVTIJTG TO THE SPEECH expressed sincere gratitude for the confidence con-fidence shown and the high trust devolved by the nomination He spoke of the Republican Re-publican party as having guided the country I coun-try on the path unparallelled prosperity with but four years Interval since 1860 He said The profound sense of responsibility responsi-bility and a most earnest desire to discharge dis-charge the trust reposed to the satisfaction oi sixtylive millions of freemen and for the best interests of the country are the I overmastering emotions of the hour He continued Not having sought the grci honor you confer as you have jusUy stuted I am the more prompt in saying that as a citizen and i Republican I snail not shrink from the duty you have imposed The speaker said he accepted and adopted in full the issues laid down by the Minneapolis Minne-apolis platform They were the principles prin-ciples under which the country had attained phenomanal prosperity and growth Under them labor bad been freed honored and better rewarded than elsewhere and the largest example given of equality before the law than the world had yet seen promoted To reject these i principles woiild be to indict tho glorious i history of the nation for almost a past i third of a century I Referring to Elaine he said I cannot suppress on this occasion one word of affectionate I af-fectionate recollection for my friend in so I many presidential campaigns the great statesman whose present cruel bereavement I bereave-ment following hard on two similar blows e 0 has touched the tenderestsympathy of all not merely his political associates but both parties and the whole country The speaker closed by p country success |