The Sherman Notification

When James. R. Sherman is given the Republican nomination for vice president, the people of Utica, N.Y. host elaborate ceremonies and parades, exclaiming that “the affair is a grand holiday in honor of Mr. Sherman.”

Utica, N.Y., Aug. 18 - No event in the history of Utica has brought forth decorations so elaborate or plans so extensive for a single day as did those when Congressman James S. Sherman was officially notified that he has been nominated by the Republicans for the office of vice president. All this part of the state helped to celebrate the event. The festivities began at 7 a.m., when a salute of nineteen guns was fired, followed two hours later with a parade through the principal streets. At 11 o’clock the notification committee, escorted by the Conkling Unconditionals, a marching club, proceeded behina a band of 100 pieces to the home of Mr. Sherman on Geneseo street. The notification exercises took place at noon at the Sherman home, where a platform had been erected. Senator Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, addressed Mr. Sherman, and the latter responded. Secretary of State Elihu Root, a warm friend of Mr. Sherman, likewise delivered an address, as did Mayor Thomas Wheeler, of Utica and more. The invited guest were entertained at luncheon following the ceremonies. The decorations are unusually handsome, consisting of flags, bunting, Japanese lanterns, and strings of electric lights. The fronts of the buildings and business blocks are a mass of color. Many of the mills and business houses are closed, and the affair is a grand holiday in honor of Mr. Sherman.

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