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-TV 4 -.A . A Home Newspaper Published in jfetlntosi of Uio Peopie and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs. Vol. IX No. 12 SALISBURY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6TH, 1913. WM. H. STtVART, EdITCI Tie WILSON INDUCTED INTO HIGH OFFICE Inauguration of Twenty-Seventh President Is Witnessed by Great Crowds. MARSHALL SWORN iN FIRST Simple Ceremony In Senate Chamber Followed by More Impressive Affair on East Portico of the Capitol. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington, March 4. In the pres ence of a vast throng of his fellow citi zens, Woodrow Wilson today stood in front of the east portico of the capitol and took the oath of president of the United States. Thomas R. Marshall already had been sworn in as vice president, and with the completion of the ceremony the ship of state was manned by the Democratic party, which had been ashore for sixteen years. 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. Wilson 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 the 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. Severely Simple Ceremonies. Both of the ceremonies proper were conducted In a severely simple but most impressive manner. The sur roundings of the scene of the presi dent's Induction into office, however, were not so simple, for It was an out-of-door event and the great gathering of military, naval and uniformed civil organizations gave much more than a touch of splendor to the scene. In the senate chamber, where the the oath was taken by the man bow vice-president of the "United StateB, there were gathered about 2,000 people, all that the upper house will contain without the risk of danger because of the rush and press of the multitudes. It is probable that no where else in the United States at any time are there gathered an equal number of men and women whose names are so widely known. The gathering In the senate chamber and later on the east portico of the capi tol was composed largely of those prominent for their services in Amer ica, and in part of foreigners who have secured places for their names in the current history of the world's doings. The arrangements of the ceremonies for the inauguration of Woodrow Wil son and Thomas Riley Marshall were made by the Joint committee on ar rangements of congress. The senate President Woodrow Wilson. section of this committee was ruled by a majority of Republicans, but there is Democratic testimony to the fact that the Republican senators were willing to outdo their Democratic brethren In the work of making or derly and impressive the inaugural ceremonies In honor of two chieftains of the opposition. Ride to the Capitol. 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. Marshall Sworn In. The admission to the senate cham ber to witness the oath-taking of the vlce-preildent was by ticket, and it i a flew to say every aeat w J 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-Presidentelect Thomas R. Marshall, leaning upon the arm of the president pro tempore of the senate who, after the seating of the incoming vice-president, took his place as presiding officer of the senate and of the day's proceed ings. The president and the president elect sat in the first row of seats di rectly in front and almost under the desk of the presiding officer. In the same row, but to their left, were the vice-presidentelect 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 Its old organization. The oath of office was immediately admin istered to Vice-President-elect Map- shall, who thereupon became Vice President Marshall The prayer of the day was given by the chaplain of the senate. Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, pas- Vice-President Marshall. tor of All Souls' Unitarian church, of which President Taft has been a mem ber. After the prayer the vice-president administered the oath of office to all the newly chosen senators, and therewith the senate of the United States passed for the first time in years into the control of the Demo cratic party. Processjon to the Platform. Immediately after the senate cere1 monies a procession was 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, Admiral Dewey 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 to witness the day's proceedings. When President Taft and the president-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. In the narrow line between the onlookers and the plat form on which Mr. Wilson was to take the oath, were drawn up the 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 scene was charged with color and with life. On reaching the platform the presi dent and 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. Oath Administered to Wilson. The instant that Mr. Taft and Mr. Wilson came within sight 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 bars 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 president-elect, who, uttering the words, "I will," became president of the United States. As soon as this cere mony was completed Woodrow Wilson delivered his inaugural address, his first 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. Wilson took "the seat of honor" on the right The crowds cheered as they drove away to the White House, which Woodrow Wilson entered as the occupant and which William H. Taft Immediately left as on whose leaM GREAT PARADE IN HONOR OF WILSON Federal and State Troops, Men From Navy, Veterans and Civilians March. GEN. WOOD IS GRAND MARSHAL Indians, Hunt Clubs and College Stu dents Are In Line Enthuslastio Spectators Continuously Cheer the Inaugural Procession. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington, March 4. The "Jefter sonian . simplicity" which Woodrow Wilson requested should be observed in every detail of his Inauguration as president did not apply to the inaugu ral parade, for it was as elaborate as such an affair usually Is. The people wanted it so, and they showed their appreciation of the spectacle by turn ing out by the hundred thousand and cheering wildly as the marchers pass ed with bands playing loudly and flags waving bravely. The newly Inaugurated president re viewed the procession and smiled his approval as 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. People Enjoy the Sight. The inhibition of the Inaugural ball and of the planned public reception at the capitol had no effect as a bar to the attendance at this ceremony of cnanging presidents. Masses were here to see, and other masses were here to march. There was a greater demon stration while the procession was pass ing than there was 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 th United States senate was surrounded by the .members of the Black Horse troop of the Culver Military academy of Indi- Scene on Pennsylvania Avenue Darin tlon Parade. ana. This is the first time in the his tory of inaugural ceremonies that a guard of honor has escorted a vice president to the scene of his oath tak ing. Formation of Parade. The military and the civil parade, a "huge affair which stretched its length for miles along the Washington streets, formed on the avenues radiat. 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, as its grand marshal, started from the capi tol grounds to move along the avenue to the White House, where it was to pass in review. The trumpeter sound ed "forward march" at the instant the signal was flashed from the White house that In fifteen minutes the new ly elected president and commander-in-chief of the armies and navies of the United States would be ready to review "his troops." It was thought that the parade might lack some of the picturesque features which particularly appealed to the people on former occasions. There were Indians and rough riders here not only when Roosevelt was inaugu rated, but when he went out of office and was 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 Boise enough over u. if . -. Mmm The procession - was- iit: -divisions, with General Wood ' as the grand marshal of the whorerIIir and Mur ing a place at its heiwL The display in the words Invariably ;iised on. like occasions, was "impressive and bril liant." : Wotherspoon Leads Regulars. The regulars of the country's two armed service naturally had the right of way. Maj. Gen W. W. Wother spoon, United State; 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 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,, bad place In the first division. All branches of the. army service were represented in t$e body of regu lars engineers, artillery, cavalry, in fantry and signal txnrps. 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 State army, who wore the medal of honor, gifen him for con spicuous personal gallantry at the bat tle of San Juan MIL - General Mills is the chief of the militia division of the United Statesrwir department. The entire National Guard of New Jersey was in line, and Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Maine and 1 North Carolina were represented by bodies of civilian soldiers. Cadets trom many of the private and state military schools of the country had a place in the militia division. The third division otthe 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 SL Stuart of Chicago, a, veteran of both the. Civil and the Spanish wars, was in command. . Thousands of Civilians. Robert N. Harper,.chlef marshal of the civio forces, commanded the fourth division. Under bis 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, Baltl , more and other clQes. . They put the American Indians into the civilian division, The fact that ley-were to yn&&&Lja3x&-feathers helped out in plcturesqueness and did nothing to disturb the peace. Mem bers of the United Hunt Clubs of g the Progress of a Typical Inaugurs 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 civio 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. Cheering Is Continuous. 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. The cheering was constant and, Woodrow Wilson cannot 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 is to rule for at least four years. Every window in every building on Pennsylvania avenue which is not oc cupied for office purposes was rented weeks ago for a good round sum of money. Every room overlooking the marching parade was taken by as many spectators as cound find a vant age point from which to peer through the window panes. The roofs of the buildings were covered with persons willing to stand for hours in a Mareh day to see the wonders "of the inaufu. ral parade, and many of them partic ularly glad of an opportunity to go home and to say that after many years waiting they had seen a Democratic PRESIDENTtiWILSON FOR JUSTICE ONLY His Inaugural Address Calls on All Honest Men to Aid in His Task. WILL RESTORE, NOT DESTROY New Chief Executive Says Change of Government' Means the Nation la Using Democratic Patry for Large and Definite Purpose. Washington, March 4. Looking upon the victory of the Democratic party as the mandate of the nation to correct the evils that have been al lowed to grow up In our national life, President Wilson in his Inaugural ad dress today called, on all honest men to assist him in carrying out the will of the people. Following is his ad dress: 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 is the ques tion that is uppermost in our minds today. That is the question I am go ing to try to answer, in order, if I may, to Interpret the occasion. New Insight Into Our Life. 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 for 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 alien 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 familiar, 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 aspects, 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. Nowhere 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. We have built up, moreover, a great system of govern ment, which has stood through a long age as in many respects a model for those who seek to set liberty upon foundations that will endure against fortuitous change, against storm and accident Our life contains every great thing, and contains it in rich abundance. Human Cost Not Counted. 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 .m - X M conserve ine exceeding Bounty oi im 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 ail 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 secret things which we too long delayed to look Into and scrutinize with candid, fear less eyes. The great 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, safed us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good, the de based and decadent with the sound and TitaL With tnls 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 suoceed and be great Our thought has been Let every man look out for him- Itself,' while we reared giant maehte ery which made it impossible the aay 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 as well as the. most power. ful, with an eye single to the stand-' ards of justice and fair play, and re membered it with pride. But we were very heedless and in a hurry to be great Chief Items In Program. We have come now to the sober second thought The scales of . heed lessness have fallen from our eves. We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standards 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 cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the just principles of taxation, and makes the government a facile instrument 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 exploits 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 as it should be through the instrumentality of science taken directly tq 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. Matters of Justice. 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 chlldrenTas 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 first 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 ought to do, And not leave the others undone, the old-fashioned, 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 concerns our life as a nation to the light that shines from the hearthfire of every man's 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 our 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 those 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. Task Not One of Politics. And yet it will be no cool process. of mere science. The nation has been deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn passion, stirred 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-strings like some air out of God's owi. 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 us through and through, whether we be able to understand our time and the need of our people, whether we be in deed their spokesmen 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 is a day of dedication. Here muster, not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men's hearts wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust?. Who dares fall to tryt I summon all honest men, all patriotic. all forwar dlooking men, to my side. God helping -me, I win not fail them if they will but counsel and sustain GREAT OVATION IS GIVEN FELIX OUZ. Piratfi Reiiif il by GiBirtl Din til tfei Tnitor, Hiirti, u it Pissis Pilisi. Mexico. City, March 2. General Felix Diaz was, ac corded a great ovation this afternoon at the bull ring. I the 'first performance of the matador's sport since the bombardment of the Capital Several thousand specta tors stood and cheered lustily when General Diaz entered a box in the arena, attended only by hie secretary, his chief of staff and a few friends and the hero of the revolution was forced to rise time .and again to acknow ledge the demonstrations. Diaz granted the request of the matadors to kill the bull and presented favors to the popular heroes of the arena when the animals were been despatch. Machaquido, a noted metador, was slightly injured when he put the blade into the third bull. At noon President Huerta, General Diaz, General Moni dragon and General Blan- quet stood on the balcony of the National Palace and re viewed the parade organized by the Felix Diaz Club, in honor ot the men who were most closely identified with the recent revolt. Several thousand persons represent ing the different branches of the military service, civic societies and fraternal organizations afoot, mounted and in carriages paraded through the principal streets. Thousands of spectators lin ed the streets surrounding the Palace but were not markedly demonstrative, al though vivas" werenumers ous. A feature of the parade was tne riderless horse ot General Bernardo Reyes, walking behind a carriage in which reposed a painting of the General draped with crepe. Bared heads all along the route evidenced the love and admiration of the people of the capital for the dead chieftain. In front ot the Palace women in a carriage heading a delegation of factory em ployes relensed four doves of peace. Among the trans parencies were some bearing such inscriptions as: "Honor and glory to the restorer of peace" and "Our country is saved." The Metropolitan Press Association has ioined in the patriotic, endeavors to restore complete pacifications of the country and has to Governor Venustiano Carranza of Coa huila, a telegram imploring him to desist in his opposition to the new government and support President Huerta. "In the name of a grief strickpn Fatherland whose burdens have been intensifi ed by a long internal struggle and which is now threatened by the terrible fantasy of foreign invasion, which per haps would mark the end of our glorious nationality," says the telegram, "the Metropolitan Press Associa tion which has always re garded yon as a good friend without other motive than the welfare of the republic appeals to your sentiments as a patriotic Mexican to abandon your hostile attitude and devote your virtues, citizenship, personal worths ness and energies to the great work of peace only, on the basis of national reconstruc tion. The newspapers of the country without notable ex ception are refraining from criticism of the new adminis trationand are lending their active support' to the pacific cation program. '
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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