The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-03-10
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THE cHIHgE-GTHEa CL!4NGE>

clock work has rolle;l around.
The gong has sounded, The Old |
guard steps out; the new steps IL. /
Benjamin. Harrison retires TO phi
yate life crowned with the iaufcis |
Of an upright, wise and honorable !
career which cannot be liin4lcd
by The shngs Of partisan as I:cr"ioi;
Grover Cleveland steps from tie
common ranks to the nations
pinnacle OF sovereignty, proud ill
the over-towering gtrength that
backed his elevation and buoyant
fin his self-conGdenco TO WELD the
wand OF chief magistry even more
wisely, more prosperousiy for the
nation than his predecessor has
done.
Inauguration day in this i'll
stance had its pomp and ma3uili-
cence and. vaingiorions displays
about as other inauguration days
have had; the same great crowd ol
witnesses at the capital, scr5mb-
ling and jousting each other and
paying fancy prices to get prefer
red positions; the same maWkish
parades Of notIingne@s and cXto!-
ations of nonsense; anl the same
blaze Of gew gaWism, sn0bbery
and tawdry gentiIity. These 1e2-
tures, however, figured most con
spicuously con paper" Things
have moved Oh amsng tho plain,
substantial yeomanry as though
nothing had happened. Buoine&s
has gone on at tho old stand the
same as it did last month, without
o jar Or interruptions Even that
.thrilln which enthusiastic demo
Gratis happily predicted would stir
the country Oh the AtA Of March
did rot '1hrili'' perceptibiy--cx-
cept perhaps that little '',hriil'
at Salem, which it had been far
more rational and crcJitablo for
Oregon had it never happened.
Rejecting upon tho event il
course of review the mind viii
naturally revert to other instan-
ess of its kind. Thirty-two years
ago the republican party took
hold of the rcin5 OF government.
How different from the rircun-
stances of Mr.. Lincoln's going to
Washington are those which at
tended Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Cleve-
land went with an army Of friends
snd admirers, befitting the great
occasion and in decoroas keeping
with the great event. abraham
Lncoln, the first republican exc
cutiye, on his way to The capjtaI
city, stole through Baltimore
like hunted fe'on, wrapped in I
cloak, with the Scotch cap, now
historic, on his head. What had
he done? He had committed nc
crime save in the eyes Of some oI
being elected president OF the
United States.
There are no hints of war now
from republicans; 10 hurried sc
cession conventions gathered il
mad moments and stiGcl to Sc
eresy; no forts have been dis
mantled; no arsenals pillaget
during the past month with which
to strengthen the armies Of van
auished republicans. In fine there
ts no contemplated Mexicaniza-
Gon by the men and their offspring
yho helped make history the
grandest, the most utilitarian and
the best that any thirty two years
of history on earth can equal
much less rival.
We allude to this in no spirit
of rancor, but in that spirit O
pride and gratitude to the repub
ican party, whose first years o
power having been contested b.
shot and she'll and armed rebel
lion, made Mr.. Cleveland's ad zen
to power and patronage not onl,
possible but pleasant. It is
glorious heritage in itself to have
varfioipofod in and to ouan roonI