Evening journal., 1893-03-04

Highest ONCE in the Land B efore "A Null
tItude OF Cheering Democrats-Bad
Weather Mars the Attendance Slightly
and Decreases the vast Army Intending
to Participate in the Parade-An I'M
pressive Inaugural Address-scenes and
Incidents Attending the Formal Reyo-
luton of a Nations Government.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 4-Grover
Cleveland, of New York, thrice nomi
mated for President Of the United States
and twice elected, was today successfully
inducted into that high Office for his Sec
ond term, with all appropriate ceremo-
MES and, with the accompaniment of
binding snow storm, But notwithstand-
ing every disadvantage of weather the
last occasion was greater tha2 the first.
Had the atmospheric conditions been
anything like favorable, instead of being
as bad as could possibly be, there would
probably have been $4,000 men and
number Of ladies marching 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 weres compelled to desist
- from participation. Nevertheless the
occasion was made memorable by the
vast attendance.
Today also, the Governors of eleven
great states, New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut and Massachusetts,, in the
North and East, Of Pennsylvania and
Maryland, among the Middle states; Of
Georgia, North and South Carolina and
Louisiana in the South; and of Wiscon-
sin in the far West, participated in the
National ceremonies and thereby empha-
sized the complete restoration of National
unity. More interesting and significant
even than this, perhaps, in the eyes of
other nations and the historian, were the
manifestations of the marvellous growth
of the country in population and power
and the fact that this momentous and
majestic change in the government of
65,O00.000 of people was accomplished
according to a cut and dried formula,
every step Of which was planned and
publicly announced beforehand, and
without noticeable disturbance of public
interests or the creation of any excite
ment except that naturally accompany
ing great national pageant and the
influx Of 100000 sight seers into the
Capital.
The Last Inauguration Reversed.
The order Of proceeding was almost
identically the same as four years ago,
with the action of the chief participants.
reversed, and it differed very little,
except in the extent of the demonstra--
tion, from the ceremonies of eight years
ago, which brought Mr.. Cleveland to
Washington for the first time in his pub.
lie career. Time which keeps every name
in motion, had wrought many changes
IN the interim, however The most
dramatic incident connected with Mr..
Cleveland's first Inauguration was the
passage by the House of Representatives.
under the skillful management OF
Speaker Randall, of the bill which
authorized the placing of General Grant
on the retired list of the army with the
rank and pay of full general; President
Arthurs nomination of the dying hero
to the position thus created; and the
Senate's immediate confirmation of the
AEBoAAAAnDAlt III NHNn NalAANAN0 otoaA1A
then and there held for the first anC
only time in its history-al this accom-
pllshed within few minutes of the houi
when the 4Sth Congress and the admins
tration of President Arthur passed out o.
existence together, and while Vice
President Hendricks was waiting at thu
door of the Senate Chamber to take thl
oath of Office at the hands of actinI
Vice President Edmdnds, and barell
twenty minutes before Mr. Cleveland
commenced reading his inaugural address
from the east portico of the Capitol
Grant and Arthur, Hendricks and Ran
dali, the chief actors in this memorabl
drama, have all since been called away
and Senator Edmunds has retired t,
private life.
Four years later, when Mr.. Clevelan,
in turn surrendered the Chief Executiv
Office of the nation to BENJAMIN Harri
son conspicuous in the distinguishe,
throng participating in the ceremonies
in the Senate chamber, were ex.Vic
President Hamlin, General Tecumse
Sherman, James G. Blaine, Williar
Window and John G. Fremont, each o
whom has since passed to his reward
What changes another four years ma,
bring none may divine, but the exper
ience of the past is eloquent in it
suggestiveness Of the possibilities Of th
future.
The Four Features.
There are four 6 reat heading feature
of Inauguration day The closing houl
of Congress, into which so much la'
making and history are frequentl
crowded: the ride of the retiring Presi
dent and Vice President and Pres
dent and Vice .President-elect with the
military escort from the White Hous
TO the Capitol, to lay down and take u
the relns of power respectively; th
pageant of the returning procession an
review after the ceremonies of inaugurI
tion are over, and the Inauguration ba
at night. Since blunt old John Adam
gripsack in hand, 'slid" out of u
White House in the early morning daw
of March 4, 1901, to avoid extending
his hated rival Thomas jefferson II