The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-05
A JEV RULER.
Cleveland Takes The Oath
Of Office
SNOW and BITTER COLD
Cleveland Weather Fails to
Show Up.
TEXT OF TEE ADDRESS.
The Paper a Guarantee Of Good
Government.
MARCH OF THE PARADE.
Cheers for Popular Men and
Organizations,
The Paper a Guarantee Of Good
Government.
MARCH OF THE PARADE.
Cheers for Popular Men and
Organizations.

President Harrison and the President
elect Ride Together From the White
House to the CapitoI-The inaugural
Address Read From the Rast Portioo
With Uncovered Head Despite the
Personal Discomfort and Danger to
Health.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-Grover Cleve.
land of New York, thrice nominated for
President OF the United States and twice
elected, was to-day successfully iDducted
into that high Office for his second term
with all appropriate ceremonies and the
gathering Of a mighty multitude and with
the accompaniment Of binding snow
storm. But notwithstanding every disad-
vantage of the weather the last occasion
was greater than the first. Had the atmos.
pheric conditions been anything like favor
able, instead Of being as bad as could DOS
sibly be, there would probably have been
$1,000 men and number of ladies march
ing or riding in the parade, as against
$4,000 in 1885. They were all here waiting
TO fall In line, but at the last moment many
Of the organizations were compelled to
desist from participation. Nevertheless
the occasion was made memorable
by tho vast attendance. To-day also
the governors of eleven great states-New
York, New Jersey Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts in the north and east; of Pennsyl>
vania and Maryland among the
middle states; of Georgia, North and South
Carolina and Louisiana In the south, and of
Wisconsin in the far west-participaued in
the national ceremonies and thereby empha-
sized the complete restoration of national
unity.
A SPECTACLE FOR OTHER NATIONS.
More interesting and significant even
than this, perhaps, in the eyes of other
nations and the historian were the manifes-
tations of the marvellous growth Of the coun-
try in population and power aud the fact
that this momentous and majestic change
in the governments of 65,000,000 of people
was accomplished according to a cut and
dried formula, every step OF which was
planned and publicly announced before
hand and without noticeable disturbance of
public interests or the creation of any ex-
element except that naturally accompany
ing a great national pageant and the influx
of 100000 Or 100000 sight-seers into the |
capital.
CHANGES WROUGHT BY TIME.
The order Of the proceedings was almost |
identtcally the same as four years ago, with |
the action of the chief participants re- |
versed. and it differed little, except in the |
extent of the demonstration, from the cere-
monies of eight years ago. which brought |
Mr.. Cleveland to Washington ION March 2, |
1885, for the first time in his public career.
Time and that "capecious urn" OF death |
which keeps every name in motion" had |
wrought many changes in the interim, how
ever. The most dramatic incident connected |
with Mr.. Cleveland's frat inauguration was |
the passage by the House of Representatives,
under the skillful management Of Speaker |
Randall, of the bill which authorized the |
placing OF Gen. Grant on the retired list OF |
the army with the rank and pay OF full |
general; President Arthur's nomination of /
the dying hero to the position thus created, |
ana the Senates immediate confirmation |
OF the appointment ia open executive ses- |
sion, then and there held for the first time |
In its history-all this accomplished within |
few minutes of the hour when the Forty |
eighth congress and the administration of |
PRESIDENT Arthur passed out of existence |
together, and while Vice President Hem !
drioks was waiting at the door OF the Senate |
chamber to take the oath of office ar
the hands Of Acting Vice President Ed |
munds, and barely twenty minutes before |
Mr.. Cleveland commenced reading his in |
augural address from the east portico OF the |
capitol. Grant and Arthur, Hendricks and |
randall, the chief actors in this memorable |
Drama. have all since been called away, |
ana Senator Edmunds has retired to pri' !,
vate life.
-Four years later, when Mr. Cleveland, In |
turn, surrendered the chief executive Office |
OF the nation to Benjamin Harrison. con- |
eplouous in the distinguished throng, par |
ticlpating in the ceremonies in the Senate |
ShaLnoer, were ex-Vice President Hsmlin, |