The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-03-10
CLEVELAND AGAIN PRESIDENT.
THE DETAILS OF HIS INAUGURATION.
Harrison Weather Came Near Marring the
Great Democratic Jubilee.

Grover Cleveland is again President of |
the United States. For the first time in |
more than thirty years the government of
the United States is in the control of the
Democrats. The Chief Executive and both |
branches of Congress are now in Demo
cratic control. The ceremony of induct
ing into Office a new President was car
rieG out Saturday in much the same form
that all the previous Presidents were in
augurated, though it was somewhat more
elaborate than previous events ofthe kind.
The day opened rather dscouragingly.
At began to snow about midnight Friday,
and kept it up continuously until after II
O'Clock Saturday. The streets were in a
wretched condition, and everybody felt
depressed. Ahont noontime, however,
itceared up, and during the eprogress of
the great procession the day was as fine
as could be, tho0gh somewhat cold.
At12o'clock, noon, Benjamin Harrison
4 ceased to fill the office of President, and
it was not till nearly 2 O'Clock that Grover
Cleveland took the oath which made him
President of the Republic and Command
,er-in-chief of the Army and Navy. With
bare head, his top-lock flying about in a
cold wind which swept over Capitol Hill,
his voice husky from delivery of his in
,augural address, but withface radiant and
eyes uplifted, Grover Cleveland placed
his hand upon his mother's bible and re-
peated after Chief Justice Fuller the SOL
emn oath Of Office.
The interregnum had passed and again
theeountry had ruler. Almighty shout
went up from the multitude that pressed
around the stand and filed both ground
and air with their forms. A signal gun
at the Arsenal was fired. Other signal
guns vt Fort Myer, across the Potomac
responded, and then all the people within
the city OF Washington andthe District Of
Columbia knew that Grover Cleveland
was again President. On hundred tel
graph wires the same intelligence was
carried, letter after letter, and word after
word, and before Mr.. Cleveland had haC
time to put his hat upon his head ant
turn for the smile OF his admiring wife
bulletins announcing the change in The
administration OF the Government were
being posted in thousands Of hamlets anC
towns throughout the land.
Before the stage, which had been erect
ed at the east or principal front of the Cap
atol, in q solid mass stood two acres o
citizens. They had been standing ther
for three or more hours, and every eye il
all that throng was directed toward tn
rostrum on which Mr.. Cleveland was
appear. There was but one entrance t
this platform, and it was from the grea
Eotunda of the Capitol. All the occupant
of the stage were to come from the senat
chamber, where Mr.. Cleveland, theichie
hero Of the hour, had sat for half all houl
passive spectator Of the Inauguration {
his companion in the eyes and confdenc
in Democracy, Adlai E. Stevenson.
The first to appear through the gres
bronze doors were the representatives {
the press. Uae newspaper men had n
sooner taken the seats reserved Tor thel
than great shout from the crowd told
some arrival that appealed to the affectio
or their Imagination, All turned to I'll
bronze portal of the rotunda and thel
was Mrs. Cleveland, shivering as the col
blasts of the capitoline hill struck her
the face, the more bitter in the,Quck tral
sition from the excessive warmth of II
interior of the Capitol, but smiling. HI
reception must have gladdened her hear
as has the popular welcome every tin
she has made public appearance sim
her arrival in the city, AS Mrs. Cley
land trippei down to the front of the pla
form the immense throng of enthusiast
Democrats gave her welcone after VIZ
come.
Soon the procession from the Viii
House was under way, and they appear
on the platform regardless of the order
which they were to arrive. The dipl
matte corps came first Of all the vario
bodies, or part of them did; and the lo
OF disgust that oyerspread the faces
some of the hot-honse gentlemen in 60
lace and military boots as they emerg
into the norther was interesting to no
Tie majority OF the representatives
foreign governments stuck to their pos
the most of them, no doubt, objurgati
these beastly Americans for their barb'
ic way of conducting these public fur