Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-22
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 90, 1892
The Inauguration Procession.


The committee under whose leadership
the Inauguration procession will take
place at Washington on the 4th of March
has at last got 10 work.
The delay was caused by skirmishing for
position on the part OF those who wished
20 impress their individuality upon the
public and the President-elect. They
wanted to be prominent in the process
SION" or at least IN the management OF 1t.
But IL having been discovered and confess
sed that no more in ON undertaking OF this
kind than in war can all the soldiers be gen.
erals. il has been conceded that Mr.. BERRET
and the lieutenants appointed by him by
authority of Mr.. HARRITY should be allow
ed 10 proceed with their work. and we
take II for granted that all good Demo
Gratis Of Washington will give these gentle
men their hearty support.
We may say for the consolation OF those
who have not been as fully recognized in
the disposition of places as in their OPINION
their political services and personal merits
warranted. that it is quite possible that
ia the hurry and hustle of the Inaugural
ton ceremonies Mr.. CLEVELAND may not
notice their absence from the procession,
md that therefore it would be foolish for
them to make any more noise about 1t. II
left ont. mention of their absence might get
In the papers and then Mr.. CLEVELAND
might see it. Evidently, for them silence
is the best policy.
We are truly glad that the committee Is
organized and at work. There Is much for
il to do. The procession should be the
rrandest ever seen in Washington, and the
crowd of spectators to view 1t will, we are
sure. be unprecedentedly large. So there
is much TO be done to arrange who shall go
in line and how the strangers who are
going TO Washington can best be pro-
yided with TODD and lodgings.
Washingtons hospitality is vastly eX-
parsible on occasions of this character,
but we shall be much surprised if 1t
proves equal to this occasion. Every
Democrat will desire to he there. The
entire Democratic population of Rich
uond has about concluded to 90. Hence,
we wish TO see the Committee of Arrange
ments well sustained.
We also wish land here comes in our
sole selishness) to see the First Regiment
of Virginia Cavalry assigned to the head
Of the lne.
oother State. we believe, has regiment
of cavalry; certainly no other State offers
70 send regiment TO Washington. The
Commandant of the First has offered the
services of the regiment for the parade,
and very naturally be would like to have
il head the line.
The trip would subject the cavarymen
10 considerable cost, as they would have to
send their own horses to WASHINGTON at
no little expense or else hire others in
Washington or Baltimore at high rates 8.
but all of this they are willing TO bear
We feel sure, however, that If the place of
honor is assigned the regiment, the friends
of each company will willingly make con-
tributions which will cause the expenses
of the trip to fall lightly upon individual
members.
This Is about all of the special local in
terest we have in the inauguration process
SION. and whether we succeed or fail on
this point, we (that is the DISPATCH, Rich
mond, and Virginia. heartily wish all of
the ceremonies of the day TO be "out Of
sight of previous affairs of the kind.
All the same, the committee would do
well to put the Virginia cavalry at the
head of the procession as the special es-
eort and body-guard of tho President
elect