Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — MORTON NOTIFIED. [ARTICLE]

MORTON NOTIFIED.

The Republican Notification Committee, with many distinguished .gleets, arrived from Rhinebeck, N. Y., about 1 o’clock p. m., Saturday,and were met by the local committee, who escorted them to the house of Hon. Levi P. Morton. The latter and Mrs. Morton received the guests. Chairman Estee, wearing a Harrison and Morton badge, led the committee into the drawing room, where Mr. Morton stood arrayed in black with Mrs. Morton, handsome and richly dressed, beside Jtiim. Chairman Estee briefly performed the business of the comittee by reading the following address: “The National Convention of the Republican party, recently assembled in Chicago, nominated as its candidate for President General Harrison, and with equal unanimity selected you as its nominee for Vice President. By order of that convention we were appointed a committee to notify its nominees of their selection. This pleasant duty has been in part performed, it giving General Harrison, your associate upon the ticket, that notification. It only remains for us to discharge the further duty conferred upon us by this official notice to you. The country has. already passed judgment upon your selection and it has met with snch universal approval, that it is only left this committee to add its own expression of their high appreciation ol your own personal qualities, as well as their confidence in your eminent fitness for the position to which the deliberate judgment of the* convention assigned you. In conclusion, we believe that this notification to you will not be a meaningless formality, but that your nomination will result in a triumphant election.” Mr. Morton replied: “Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen of the Committee—l am profoundly sensible of the high honor which has been conferred npon me by the National Republican Convention recently in session at Chicago, and thank you,.gentlemen, for the courteous and complimentary terms with which you have officially announced my nomination as the candidate of the

Republican party for the Vice Presidency. I am also deeply sensible of the honor conferred upon the State of New York in the selection of a citizen of this State as one of the standard-bearers in the approaching peaceful conflict of the two great political parties of the country for supremacy in Governmental control. New York represents to a large degree the business interests of all these growing and wide-spreading communities of varied interests and industries which is the mission of the Republican party to foster and protect. The platform so wisely adopted at Chicago had this mission boldly in view, and by its enunciation of these principles makes the issue clear and distinct. I accept the position tendered by the convention, of which you are the honored representatives, and will, in due time, address to you, Mr. Chairman, an official communication to that effect.” ' Introductions ana lunch followed, and the visitors were invited to drive over to Mr. Morton’s country-seat Ellerslie.