Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-06
INAUGURATED.
GroverC Cleveland axes
Oath of Office
For Second Time as President
of United States.
Thousands Brave a Cold Storm
to Witness Ceremonies,
Thousands Join in the Parade,
Through Snow and SIush,
And Thousands Dance at the 'naugu-
ration Ball in Evening.
Mrs. Cleveland Present and Smiles as
Her Husband Takes Oath.
nrmocrafS Are in pnwpr and Will guie fnr
Mrs. Cleveland Present and Smiles as
Her Husband Takes Oath.
Democrats Are in Power and Will Rule for
lust Four Years.

WASHINGTON, March i.-Grover Cleve-
land OF New York. thrice nominated for
President of the United States and twice
elected vas today successfully inducted
into that high office for his second term,
with all appropriate ceremonies and the
gathering of mighty multitude.
The last occasion was greater than the
first.
1t was more imposing in the military and
civic display
In 1859 there were a, the outside not
more than % 900 men in line in the inaug-
.ural parade.
AT least 40 600 men, with leaven of fair
women, marched today along the great ma
tional avenue to or from the Capitol.
Today also the governors of II great
States, New York, New Jersey, Connecti-
cut, and Massachusetts in the North and
East; of Pennsylvania and Maryland
among the Middle States; of Georgia,
North aad South Carolina and Louisiana in
the South and of Wisconsin in the far
West, participated in the national cere-
monies, and thereby emphasized the COM
plete restoration of national unity.
More interesting and significant even
than this, perhaps, in the eyes of other
nations and the historian, were the mani
festatious of the marvellous growth of the
country i'll population and power, and the
fact that this monentous and majestic
change in the government of g. 900 900 of
people was accomplished according to a cut
and dried formula, every step of winch was
planned and publicly announced before
hand, and, without noticeable disturbance
of public Interests or the creation of any
excitement. except that naturally accom-
panying great national pageant and the
influx of two or three hundred thousand
sightseers into the capital.
The order of proceeding was almost iden-
tically the same as four years ago, with the
action of the chief participants reversed
aud it ,i;fferen-v -vFrv fit,le, 'cxcept in the
extent of The demonstration, from the cerc-
monies of eight wears Ago. which brought
Mr.. Cleveland to Washington ION the - of
Marrli, 1850 for the first time in his public
career. Time and that '.capacous urn Of
death which keeps every name in motion
had wrought many changes in the interim.
however.
The Most Dramatic incident
connected wiki Mr. CIcvclani's first inau-
gurHtion WAS tie passage by the House of
Representatives, under the skiful manage
ment of Speaker Randall, Of the bill which
authorized the placing of Gen. Grant on
the retired lis of the army with the rank
and py of full general; President
Arthur nomination Of the dying
hero 10 the position thus created, anl
the Senate's immediate confirmation of the
appointment, in open executive session then
and there lri for the first and only time
in its histbrv-all N ACCOMPLISHED within Il
few minutes eff the hour when the iSth
Congress AMI the administration of Presi-
dent Arthur passed out OF existence to
gether, AMI shile Vice President Hendricks
was waiting ut the door OF the Senate
chamber to take the oath of office at the
hands of Acting Vice President Edmunds,
and barely - minutes before Mr.. Clcve-
land commenced reading his inaugura! aA-
dress from the east poriico of the Capitol.
Grant and Arthur, Hendricks and RAN
dali. the chief actors ia this memorable
drama, have al since been called away, and
Senator Edmunds has retired to private life.
Four years lster, when Mr.. Cleveland. in
turn. surrendered the chief ex. cativc office
OF the nation TO benjamin Harrison. c0u-
sp!euous in the distinguished .hrorg pattic-
iraiiD- in the cPremonies in the Senate
chamber were cxNice Iresi lent iIan'in-
Gen. Tecamseh Sherman, James G.. Blsiue
William WIntiam and John c. Fremont.
each Of whom las sinee passed 30 iiS re-
ward
What clang's another four years may
bring none may divine, hut the experience
ct the past is eloquent in it, suggestivenass
Of the pos lbilities of the future.
tn this year of grace courtesy between
the oatgorng and incoming powers has
rsiEacl snpreme. ~ witness the banquets
given by the Scl,ate without distinction Of
party to Flfc- President Morton and Score
t,ry Carlisle; the reception rendered ty
NiecPresi lent Morton 10 Vice President
Sterfusop; and tie marked civil;iies ex-
chinge,l between Presidents Harrison and
tie"risai- ''f dc.ire the ideas of !'resi-
'i"ot Harrison carri-'! out rs Ia my coryey-
antr o. thg iraupIral Gers monies" wrote
Mr.. Cleveland a very stnsih!r sugges-
ton is attributed to lin, AMI thlt is that
ride in lis carriase, as lie lid in mi,ne on
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