Farmer Holloway Accepts The Nomination

IlnvLsrcvLK, Míen., Sept. 17, 1880. Colonel Wm. D. Wilkins. Detroit, Dear sir: - Your very Kind note of A'usrn t lttli, conveying to me tlie offici t' aetion of the Demqcrat delesrate convntion of fin' state in council assem' ''rd on the lüthof August has taeén reoeived by me. in which T am ihforraed tliat T am pnt in nomination by that body for the hierh and responsibíO office of Governor of this, our beloved state. Permit me through you to express my profound thanka to the democracy of 'the stat" for the high honor conférrivl; ft is hlghly appreciated from the (act. tlKit the nomination has come insolicifed"by me. WeisrhñiT well the dnties and responsihilities attachtnft to the office, arid considering the fact thatthis is but tffeserond time in the history of our stíite, where the nomination for the office has been tendered to one actively enajied in tilline: tlie soil. I accept the nomination so gracefully tendered in tlie spirit in which ít was made, and r assure you, as I do the oonservative representatives of the people in that convention assemhlcrt, tliat in rdacins; me before the elec.tors of the State for that honorable position, it was [atended to honor, not me, but tiie large class of onr fellow citizens, tliat T ui an humble way represent. Should I be elected to tlie exalted position of chief magistrate of this great State, it will be my endeavor to emniaf e those who have preceded me :that hiirh office, aud approach as iwaT-a may be to tlieir virtues. Fn a time of profound peace like the present, tlie duties of the executive of the State of Michigan as defined by the constitution are mostlv embraeed in seetions ó. 0 and 8 of article 5 ; and it is in the (lischartre of the duties defined in trióse seetions th'tt the happiness and' prospen'tv of our people of all classes, eondftlöns anl Industries are bronirht more direo+ly nnder Iiis care. It will be my study Hile ín the performance of the duties defined in these sections to so conduct the affairs of the State that no Industry shall strffer at the expense of another. "That the laws be, faithfully executed" in the spirit of Hberalitv," instice and equity oonstantlv liearing in mind that the true excellence of all government is Wiat which brincr the gre.itest good to the larcest number. The declaration of princinles adopted bv the conventiön recently held at i cinnati as welt as those adorted at Iletroit by the c.oitvention that placod me in iiomination, have rny most HWdial sniíiiort. I am with sentimenta of great respect vour obodieut servant.