Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-07
Harris0n'S Inaugural.
>. ravors the Promotion of the Civil
Service Reform Rule,
And Rejects the Suggestion of Special
Policy for Any Section.
THE Election Laws and Tariff and
southern Questions Reviewed.

4soiamn ceremony, in the presence OF
gu gu ~ visdom and authority embodied
81 .ba coordinate branches of the gov
~ ,srt and surrounded by the represen-
lives of all the great nations on the
.ions Benjamin Harrison was to-day
s15ncted into the highest Office within the
la of the American people. Never were
e.cb crowds in Washington before. tits
a.,i,,ated that half million strangers
sar,nsd in the city lass night, filling
e,lry inch of hotel and boarding house
s.,ommodation, and drawing to full
III on private hos pitality. Even
I'm many we're forced to sleep on
.se Aoors, some on the billiard tables,
ana even the welcome recess of an COCA
sionaI bath tub, was not despised.
The president-eiect entered the senate
chamber shortly before noon. The senate
sdi1urued. Wee president Morton then
took the oath of office, and swearing in
the new senator's began.
At l2:45 the president-elect reached
the outside platform and promptly began
rsadipg his inaugural address, which is
as follows:
There is no constitutional or legal re-
oniremeut that the president shall take
the oath of office in the presence Of the
neopIe. but their is so manifest appro-
pristeness in public induction to the Of
a,e of the chief executive officer of a
nation that from the beginning of the
government that people, to whose service
the official oath consecrates the officer,
have been called to witness. The solemn
ceremonial of an oath taken in the pres
epce of the people, becomes mutual Gov
suant, The officer covenants to serve the
whole body of the people by the faithful
execution of the law, so that there may be
an unfailing defense ana security of those
who respect and observe them, and that
neither wealth, station nor power of com
binsfions shall be able to evade their just
penalties, or to wrest them from the
benefcent public purpose to serve the
ends of cruelty o. selhshness. My
promise is spoken, yours unspoken, but
Lot the less real and solemn, People of
every sthte have here their represent
atives. Surely do NOS misinterpret the
spirit Of the occasion when | assume that
the whole body of the people covenant
with me and with each other today
TO SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION
and union of states, to yield willing ODE
dience to all laws and each TO every
other citizen his equal, olvl and political
rights Entering thus solemnly into
convenient with each other, we may rever-
emily invoke and confidently expec' the
favor and help of almighty God,
that he will give TO me, wisdom,
strength and fidelity, aud to our people
the spirit of fraternity ard love of right
eousness and peace. This occasion de-
riyes peculiar interest from the fact that
the presidential term which begins this
day, is the twenty sixth under our cOnsti-
sutton. The first inaug aration of Presi-
dent Washington took place in New York
where congress was then sitting, on the
3)fh day of April, 1889, having been
deferred by reason of delays attend ng
the organization of congress and the can
ysss Of the electoral vote. Our people
nave already worthily observed the cen
teuDials of the declara ion of independ-
enoe, of the battle of Yorktown, and of
the adoption of the constitution, and will
shortly celebrate ia New York the
Institution of the second great depart
ment Of our constitutional scheme of
government. When the centennial of
the constitution, of the judicial depart
meut b? the organization of the supre me
court, shall have been suitably observed,
fully entered its second century.
will not attempt to note the marvel
Gus and in great part, happy contrasts
between our country rs It steps over the
threshold into It's second century of or
ganizsd existence der the constitution,
and that weak but wisely ordered young
nation that
LOOKED UNDAUNTEDLY DOWN THE FIRST
CENTURY,
When all its years stretched ont before it,
Jlr people will not fail at this time to
recall incidents which accom- panied the
institution of the government under the
constitution, or 20 find Inspiration and
sWdauoe IN the teachings and example of
Warrington and his great associates, and
nope and courage in the cohtrast which
W'tty'elgnt populOus ind prospe Gus
states offer to the thirteen states, weak
~ everything except courage and love of
"otFty- that then fringed our Atlantic
ssaooard, The territory of Dakota has
nov population greater than any of the
original states Except Virginis), and
greater than the aggregate of five of the
smaller states in 1896.
Inc center OF population when our
national capital was located, was east of
Da'Nmore. IL was argued by many we'll
informed persons that it would move
eastward rather than westward. Yet in
I'aV 10 was found to be near Cincinnati,
aua the aew census about to be taken will
ANOTHER sTBIDE TO WESTWARD.
That which was the body had come to
We only the rich fringe of the nations
'ooe but our grovth has not been linn
'.el 70 territory, population and aggre-
gaze wealth, marvellous as it has been in
saea OF those directions. The masses of
o1f people are better fed, clothed
4ud housed thar thsir fathers wsre.
1s facilities for popular education have
zen vastly enlarged, and more generally
unused The virtues of courage and
ra.Hotlsm have given recent proof of
.'sF continued presence and increasing
power In the hearts and over the lives OF
-5 people in the influence of religion
ave been multiplied and strengthened
~ 'Teet offices of charity have greatly
Increased
THE VIRTUE OF TEMPERANCE