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PUBLIC PAPERS AND ADDRESSES

OF

BENJAMIN HARRISON,

TWENTY-THIRD PRESIDENT OF THE

UNITED STATES.

MARCH 4, 1889, TO MARCH 4, 1893.

THE PASTATE
COLLEGE

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1893.

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PUBLIC PAPERS AND ADDRESSES

OF

BENJAMIN HARRISON.

LETTERS OF ACCEPTANCE.

I.

ACCEPTING FIRST NOMINATION, 1888.

Hon. M. M. ESTEE AND OTHERS,

Committee, etc.:

GENTLEMEN: When your committee visited me, on the Fourth of July last, and presented the official announcement of my nomination for the Presidency of the United States by the Republican convention, I promised as soon as practicable to communicate to you a more formal acceptance of the nomination. Since that time the work of receiving and addressing, almost daily, large delegations of my fellow-citizens has not only occupied all of my time, but has in some measure rendered it unnecessary for me to use this letter as a medium of communicating to the public my views upon the questions involved in the campaign. I appreciate very highly the confidence and respect manifested by the convention, and accept the nomination with a feeling of gratitude and a full sense of the responsibilities which accompany it.

It is a matter of congratulation that the declarations of the Chicago convention upon the questions that now attract the interest of our people are so clear and emphatic. There is further cause of congratulation in the fact that the convention utterances of the Democratic party, if in any degree uncertain or contradictory, can now be judged and interpreted by executive acts and messages, and by definite propositions in legislation. This is especially true of what is popularly known as the tariff question. The issue can not

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