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THE INOL
EGISTER.
VOL. VII.
INOLA, OKLAHOMA, THUBSDAY, MARCH 6, 1913.
NO. 30
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WILSON AND MARSHALL SWORN
IN WIH IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY
Inauguration of the New President and Vice-Presi-
dent Is Witnessed by Immense and Enthusiastic
Throng—Great Parade Fills Pennsylvania Ave-
nue With Color and Movement.
By GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington, March 4.—With all the
Impressive ceremony that properly ac-
companies such a great occasion,
Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated
president of the United States today.
Just before that big event, which took
place on a platform in front of the
east portico of the capitol, Thomas R.
Marshall took the oath aa rice-presi-
dent.
As the new chief executive of the
nation stood with bared head, Ed-
ward Douglass White, chief justice of
the Supreme court, held before him
the Bible always used in the cere-
mony. Mr. WiUon placed his hands
upon the book and in a.voice strong,
though somewhat affected by emotion,
swore to support the Constitution and
the laws of the country and to perform
the duties of his high office to the best
of his ability.
Thomas Riley Marshall swore feal-
ty to tho Constitution and to the
people in the senate chamber, where
for four years it will be his duty to
preside over the deliberations of the
members of the upper house of con-
gress.
Taft and Wilson Ride Together.
President Taft and President-elect
Wilson rode together from the White
House to the capitol, accompanied by
two members of the congressional
committee of arrangements. The vice-
president-elect also rode from the
White House to the capitol and in the
carriage with him were the senate's
president pro tempore, Senator Bacon
of Georgia, and three members of the
congressional committee of arrange-
ments.
The vice-president-elect took the
oath just before noon in accordance
■with custom and prior to Its taking
by the president-elect. Every arrange-
ment for the senate chamber pro-
ceedings had been made so that they
moved forward easily and with a cer-
tain ponderous grace.
New Vice-President Takes Oath.
The admission to the senate cham-
ber to witness the oath-taking of the
▼ice-prtsident was by ticket, and it
Is needless to say every seat was
occupied. On the floor of the cham-
ber were many former members of
the senate who, because of the fact
that they once held membership in
that body, were given the privileges
of the floor. After the hall was filled
and all the minor officials of govern-
ment and those privileged to witness
the ceremonies were seated, William
H. Taft and Woodrow Wilson, preced-
ed by the sergeant-at-arms and the
committee of arrangements, entered
the senate chamber. They were fol-
lowed Immediately by Vice-President-
elect Thomas R. Marshall, leaning
upon the arm of the president pro
tempore of the senate who, after the
■eating of the incoming vice-president,
took his place as presiding officer of
the senate and of the day'a proceed-
ings.
The president -and the president-
elect sat in the flrst row of seats di-
rectly In front and almost under the
desk of the presiding officer. In the
lame row, but to their left, were the
vlce-presldcnt«lect and two former
vice-presidents of the United States,
Levi P. Morton of New York and Ad-
lai A. Stevenson of Illinois.
When the distinguished company en-
tered the chamber the senate was
still under Ks old organization. The
oath of office was immediately admin-
istered to Vice-President-elect Mar-
shall, who thereupon became Vlce-
PreBident Marshall. The prater of the
day was given by the chaplain of the
senate, Rev. Ulysses O. B. Pierce, pas-
tor of All Souls' Unitarian church, of
wtaljch President Taft has been a mem-
ber. After the prayer the vloe-presl-
dent administered the oath of office
to all the newly chosen senators, and
therewith the senate of the United
States passed for the flrst time In
years Into the control of the Demo-
cratic party.
Go to Capitol's East Portico.
Immediately after the senate cere-
monies a procession waa formed to
march to the platform of the east por-
tico of the capitol, where Woodrow
Wilson was to take the oath. The pro-
cession included the president and the
president-elect, members of the Su-
preme court, both houses of congress,
all of the foreign ambassadors, all of
the heads of the executive depart-
ments, many governors of states and
territories, AdmiraPDewey of the navy
and several high officers of the sea
service, the chief of staff of the army
and many distinguished persons from
civil life. They were followed by the
members of the press and by those
persons who had succeeded in secur-
ing seats in the senate galleries
When President Taft and the presi-
dent-elect emerged from the capitol
on to the portico they saw in front
of them, reaching far back Into the
park to the east, an Immense con-
course of citizens. Itf the narrow line
between the onlookers and tile plat-
form on which Mr. Wilson was to take
the oath, were drawn up fee cadets
of the two greatest government
schools, West Point and Annapolis,
and flanking them were bodies of reg-
ulars and of national guardsmen. The
whole Bcene was charged with color
and with life.
On reaching the platform the presi-
dent %pd president-elect took the
seats reserved for them, seats which
were flanked by many rows of benches
rising tier on tier for the accommoda-
tion of the friends and families of the
officers of the government and of the
press.
Mr. Wilton Inaugurated.
The Instant that Mr. Taft and Mr.
Wilson came within alght of the crowd
there was a great outburst of ap-
plause, and the military bands struck
quickly Into "The Star Spangled Ban-
ner." Only a few bara of the music
were played and then soldiers and Ci-
vilians became silent to witness re-
spectfully the oath taking and to
listen to the address which followed.
The chief Justice of the Supreme
court delivered the oath to the preel
dent-elect, who, uttering the words,
"I will," became president of the
United States. Aa aoon aa thta cere-
mony was completed Woodrow Wilson
delivered his inaugural address, his
flrst speech to his fellow countrymen
in the capacity of their chief execu-
tive.
At the conclusion of the speech the
bands played once more, and William
Howard Taft, now ex-president of the
United States, entered a carriage with
the new president and, reversing the
order of an hour before, sat on the
left hand side of the carriage, while
Mr. WilBon took "the seat of honor"
on the right The crowds cheered aa
they drove away to the White House,
which Woodrow Wilson entered as the
occupant and which William H. Taft
immediately left aB one whose lease
had expired.
Parade Is Elaborate.
The "Jeffersonian simplicity" which
Woodrow Wilson requested should be
observed In every detail of his inaug-
uration as president did not apply to
the Inaugural parade, for It waa aa
elaborate as such an affair usually 1b.
The people wanted It so, and they
showed their appreciation of the spec-
tacle by turning out by the hundred
thousand and cheering wildly aa the
marchers passed with bands playing
loudly and flags waving bravely.
The newly Inaugurated president re-
viewed the procession and smiled hlB
approval aa he returned the salutes of
the commanding officers, for all the
glittering show had been arranged in
his honor. Pennsylvania avenue, from
the capitol to the White House, was
full of color, music and movement.
The inhibition of the inaugural ball
and of the planned public reception at
the capitol had no effect aa a bar to
the attendance at this ceremony of
changing presidents. Masses were here
to see, and other maaaes were here to
march. There waa a greater demon-
stration while the procession waa paaa-
ing than there waa four years ago.
Victory had come to a party which
had known nothing like victory for a
good many years. The joy of posses-
sion found expression in steady and
abundantly noisy acclaim.
President Taft and President-elect
Wilson were escorted down the ave-
nue by the National Guard troop of
cavalry of Essex county. New Jersey.
The carriage in which rode Vice-
President-elect Marshall and Presi-
dent pro tempore Bacon of the United
States senate waa surrounded by the
members of the Black Horse troop of
the Culver Military academy of Indi-
ana. This is the first time In the his-
tory of inaugural ceremonies that
guard of honor iMta escorted a vice-
president to the scene of his oath tak-
ing.
Parade la Miles Long.
The military and the civil parade, a
huge affair which stretched Its
length for miles along the Washington
streets, formed on the avenues radlat
ing from the capitol. After President-
elect Wilson had become President
Wilson and Vice-President-elect Mar-
shall had become Vice-President
Marshall, they went straightway from
the capitol to the White House and
thence shortly to the reviewing stand
in the park at the mansion s front.
The parade, with Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood, United States army, aa its
grand marshal, started from the capi-
tol grounda to move along the avenue
to the White House, where it waa to
paaa In review. The trumpeter sound-
ed "forward march" at the Instant the
signal waa flashed from the White
house that in fifteen mlnutea the new-
ly elected president and commander-
in-chief of the armies and navies of
the United Statee would be ready to
review "hla troops."
It waa thought that the parade might
lack some of the picturesque features
which particularly appealed to the
people on former occaaions. There
were Indiana and rough riders here
not only when Roosevelt waa inaugu-
rated, but when he weut otit of office
and waa succeeded by William H.
Taft The parade, however, in honor
of Mr. Wilson seemed to be pictur-
esque enough in Its features to appeal
to the multitudes. They certainly
made noise enough over it.
The procession was In divisions,
with General Wood aa the grand
marshal of the whole affair and hav-
ing a place at Its head. The display,
In the words Invariably used on like
occasions, was "Impressive and bril-
liant."
Regulara Have Right of Way.
The regulars of the country's two
armed service naturally liad the right
of way. Maj. Gen. W. W. Wother-
spoon, United States army, was In
command of the first division, In
which marched the soldiers and sailors
and marines from the posts and the
navy yards within a day's ride of
Washington. The West Point cadets
and the midshipmen from the naval
academy at Annapolis, competent be-
yond other corps In manual and In
evolution, the future generals and ad-
mirals of the army, had place in the
first division.
All branches of the army service
were represented In the body of regu-
lars—engineers, artillery, cavalry. In-
fantry and signal corps. The sailors
and marines from half a dozen battle-
ships rolled along smartly In the wake
of their landsmen brethren.
The National Guard division follow-
ed the division of regulars. It was
commanded by Brig. Gen. Albert L.
Mills, United States army, who wore
the medal of honor given him for con-
spicuous personal gallantry at the bat-
tle of San Juan hill. General Mills Is
the chief of the militia division of the
United States.war department.
The entire National Guard of New
Jersey was in line, and Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia,
Georgia, Maine and North Carolina
were represented by bodies of civilian
soldiers. Cadets from many of the
private and state military schools of
the country had a place in the rc'litia
division. Among them were boys from
the M^rglnla Military institute, the Cul-
ver Military Academy of Indiana, the
Carlisle school, Purdue university, the
Citadel cadets and the Georgia Mili-
tary academy.
The third division of the parade was
composed of Grand Army of the 'Re-
public veterans, members of the Union
Veteran league and of the Spanish
war organizations. Gen. James E.
Stuart of Chicago, a veteran of both
the Civil and the Spanish wars, wan
in command.
Harper Lends Civilians.
Robert N. Harper, chief marshal of
the civic forces, commanded the fourth
division. Under his charge were po-
litical organizations from all parts of
the country, among them being Tam-
many, represented by 2,000 of Its
braves, and Democratic clubs from
Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Balti-
more and other cities.
They put the American Indians into
the civilian division. The fact that
they were in war paint and feathers
helped out In plcturesqueness and did
nothing to disturb the peace. Mem-
bers of the United Hunt Clubs of
America rode In this division. Their
pink coats and their high hats ap-
parently were not thought to Jar
Jeffersonian simplicity" from its
seat Pink coats were worn on the
hunting field In Jefferson's day and In
Jefferson's state.
There were 1,000 Princeton students
In the civic section of the parade.
Many of them wore orange and black
sweaters and they were somewhat
noisy though perfectly proper. Stu-
dents from seventeen other colleges
and universities were among the
marchers.
There was music enough for any
democratic occasion. The judicious
distribution of the bands prevented
thp clashing of tunes. There were
fifty bands in line, but only one of
them, the Marine band, was allowed to
play "hall to the Chief," a tune which
every band on an occasion like this
hitherto has insisted on playing almost
incessantly, to the routing <ot every-
thing else known to the composers of
the past.
Great Enthusiasm Shown.
All along Pennsylvania avenue, from
the capitol to a point four block be-
yond the White House, the spectators
were massed in lines ten deep. Tho
cheering was constant and Woodrow
Wilson eannot complain that the cere-
monies attending his Induction into
office were not accompanied by ap-
parently heartfelt acclaim of the peo-
ple over whom he la to rule for at
least four years.
Every window in every building on
Pennsylvania avenue which la not oc-
cupied for office purposes vfas rented
weeks ago tor a good round sum of
money. Every room overlooking the
marching parade waa taken by aa
many spectators aa cound find a vant-
age point from which to pew through
the window panea. The rqpfs of the
buildings were covered with persons
willing to stand for hours In a March
day to see the wonders of the lnaugu
ral parade, and many of them partic-
ularly gla^ of an opportunity to go
home and to any that after many years
waiting they had aen a Penoe-ttte
prsaldaet tnaagarated.
WILSON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS
New Chief Executive Declares His Aim Will Be to Correct the
Evils of Our National Ufe Without Impairing the Good.
Washington, March President
Woodrow Wilson's inaugural address
delivered today, one of the shortest on
record, was as follows:
There has been a change of govern-
ment. It began two years ago, when
the house of representatives became
Democratic by a decisive majority.
It has now been completed. The sen-
ate about to assemble will also be
Democratic. The offices of president
and vice-president have been put into
the hands of Democrats. What does
the change mean? That ia the ques-
tion that is uppermost in our minds
today. That is the question I am go-
ing to try to anawer, In order, If I
may, to Interpret the occasion.
It means much more than the mere
success of a party. The success of a
party means little except when the
nation is using that party for a large
and definite porpose. No one can
mistake the purpose tor which the
nation now seeks to use the Demo-
cratic party. It seeks to use it to In-
terpret a change In Its own plans and
point of view. Some old things with
which we had grown familiar, and
which had begun to creep into the
very habit of our thought and of our
lives, have altered their aspect as we
have latterly looked critically upon
them, with fresh, awakened eyes;
have dropped their disguises and
shown themselves allen and sinister.
Some new things, as we look frankly
upon them, willing to comprehend
their real character, have come to as-
sume the aspect of things long believ-
ed in and ffcmtllar, stuff of our own
convictions. We have been refreshed
by a new insight into our own life.
We see that In many things that
life Is very great. It Is incomparably
great In Its material aapects, In Its
body of wealth, in the diversity and
sweep of its energy, in the industries
which have been conceived and built
up by the genius of individual men
and the limitless enterprise of groups
of men. It is great, also, very great,
in its moral force. Nowbeie else In
the world have noble men and women
exhibited in more striking form the
beauty and energy of sympathy and
helpfulness and counsel In their efforts
to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering,
and set the weak In the way of
strength and hope.
But the evil has come with the
good, and much fine gold has been
corroded. With riches has come In-
excusable waste. We have squan-
dered a great part of what we might
have used, and have not stopped to
conserve the exceeding bounty of na-
ture, without which our genius for en-
terprise would have been worthless
and impotent, scorning to be careful,
shamefully prodigal as well as admir-
ably efficient. We have been proud of
our Industrial achievements, but we
have not hitherto stopped thought-
fully enough to count the human cost,
the cost of lives snuffed out, of ener-
gies overtaxed and broken, the fear-
ful physical and spiritual cost to the
men and women and children upon
whom the dead weight and burden of
it all has fallen pitilessly the years
through. The groans and agony of It
all had not yet reached our ears, the
solemn, moving undertone of our life,
coming up out of the mines and fac-
tories and out of every home where
the struggle had its intimate and fa-
miliar seat. With the great govern-
ment went many deep Becret things
which we too long delayed to look
into and scrutinize with candid, fear-
less eyes. The greet government we
loved has too often been made use of
for private and selfish purposes, and
those who used It had forgotten the
people.
At last a vision has been vouch-
aafefl us of our life as a whole. We
see the bad with the good, the de-
based and decadent with the sound
and vital. With this vision we ap-
proach new affairs. Our duty Is to
cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to
correct the evil without impairing the
good, to purify and humanize every
process of our common life without
weakening or sentimentalizing It
There has been something crude and
heartless and unfeeling in our haste to
succeed and be .great. Our thought has
been 'Let every man look ouC for him-
self, let every generation look out for
itself,' while we reared giant machin-
ery which made it impossible that any
but those who stood at the levers of
control should have a chance to look
out for themselves. We had not for-
gotten our morals. We remembered
well enough that we had set up a
policy which was meant to serve the
humblest aa well as the most power-
ful, with an eye single to the stand-
aids of justice and fair play, and re-
membered It with pride. But we were
very heedless and in a hurry to be great
We have come now to the sober
second thought The scales of heed-
lessness have fallen from our eyes.
We have made up our minds to square
every process of ettr national
again with the atandaria we so proud-
ly set up at the beginning and have
always carried at our hearts. Our
work Is a work of restoration.
We have itemized with some degree
of particularity the things that ought
to be altered and here are some of
the chief items: A tariff which cuto
us off from our proper part in the
commerce of the world, violates the
just principles of taxation, and makes
the government a facile iastrument In
the hands of private Interests; a bank-
ing and currency system based upon %
the necessity of the government to
sell Its bonds fifty years ago and per-
fectly adapted to concentrating cash
and restricting credits; an industrial
system which, take It on all Its sides,
financial as well as administrative,
holds capital in leading strings, re-
stricts the liberties and limits the op-
portunities of labor, and explolta with-
out renewing or conserving the nat-
ural resources of the country; a body
of agricultural activities never yet
given the efficiency of great business
undertakings or served aa it ahould be
through the instrumentality of science
taken directly to the farm, or afforded
the facilities of credit best suited to
its practical needs; water courses un-
developed, waste places unreclaimed,
forests untended, fast disappearing
without plan or prospect of renewal,
unregarded waste heaps at every mine.
We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means
of production, but we have not studied
cost or economy as we should either
as organizers of Industry, as states-
men, or as individuals.
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
be put at the service of humanity, in
safeguarding the health of the nation,
the health of its men and its women
and its children, as well as their rights
in the struggle for existence. This Is
no sentimental duty. The firm basis
of government Is justice, not pity.
These are matters of justice. There
can be no equality or opportunity, the
flrst essential of Justice in the body
politic, If men and women and chil-
dren be not shielded in their lives,
their very vitality, from the conse-
quences of great industrial and social
processes which they cannot alter,
control or singly cope with. Society
must see to it that It does not itself
crush or weaken or damage its own
constituent parts. The first duty of
law Is to keep sound the society It
serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws,
and laws determining conditions of
labor which individuals are powerless
to determine for themselves are Inti-
mate parts of the very business of Jus-
tice and legal efficiency.
These are some of the things we
ought to do, and not leave the others
undone, the old-faBhioned, never-to-be*
neglected, fundamental safeguarding
of property and of individual right
This Is the high enterprise of the new
day; to lift everything that concern*
our life as a nation to the light that
shines from the hearthflre of every
man'a conscience and vision of the
right It Is Inconceivable .that we
should do this as partisans; It Is in-
conceivable we should do it in ignor-
ance of the facts as they are or In
blind haste. We shall restore, not de-
stroy. We shall deal with onr econ-
omic system as It is and as It may
be modified, not as it might be If we
had a clean sheet of paper to write
upon; and step by step we shall make
It what it should be. in the spirit of
tho&e who question their own wisdom
and seek counsel and knowledge, not
shallow self-satisfaction or the excite-
ment of excursions whither they can-
not tell. Justice, and only justice,
shall always be our motto.
And yet it will be no cool process
of mere science. The nation has been
deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn
passion, Btlrred by the knowledge of
wrong, of ideals lost, of government
too often debauched and made an In-
strument of evil. The feelings with
which we face this new age of right
and opportunity sweep across our
heart'-atriags like some air out of
God's own presence, where justice and
mercy are reconciled and the judge
and the brother are one. We know
our task to be no mere task of politics,
but a task which shall search ua
through and through, whether we be
able to understand our time and the
need of our people, whether we be In-
deed their a pokes men and interpre-
ters, whether we have the pure heart
to comprehend and the rectified will
to choose our high course of action.
This is not a day of triumph; It la
a day of dedication. Here muatar, not
the forces of party, but the forces of
humanity. Men's hearts wait upon us;
men's lives hang in the balance: men'*
hopes call upon u to tay what w ~
wiil do. Who shall live up to th*
greet trust? Who darea fail to ttft
I summon all honest smb. all
all torwardiooklng men. to my
God helping men. I will not fall
If they will but counsel and
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