The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-03-09
CLEVELAND'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS,
4 Mastery Document, Condemning Patsr
nalism and Greed for Governmental
sustenance by Individuals and
Glasses, Commends Civil Ser
vice Theory and squarely
Defines His Position
on the Tariff.

erDlal cleveland weather" failed the
president-elect today. Whether ii
argues good or bad to those who
sec in every manifestation of the ele.
ments an omen OF good luck or msior-
tune is question which each sooth-
sayer must settle in bis own mind, tOr
the fiercest weather of the day began
an hour before the conclusion of Pres
ident Harrison's term of office, and
ragged for an hour after President
Cleveland had been indicted into
office. Thus the Harrison administra'
ton went out in the stOrIl and snow
and Cleveland ushered in in the icy
wind and sleet. Soon after 2 O'Clock
the snow ana sleet ceased entirely
but with every hour the cold in,
creased in intensity and by nightfall
the fierce sweeping wind gave the
national capital all the experience OI
western blizzard, and under these
conditions Grover Cleveland Of New
York, thrice nominated for president
of the United States and twice
elected, was successfully inducted
into that high Office for hi:
second term with all appropriate cere
monies aud the gathering of mi hty
multitude.
Had atmospheric conditions beer
anything like favorable instead Of De'
ing bad as could possibly De there
would possibly have been 10000 men
and number OF ladies marching III
the parade against 25,0C0iD 1885 They
were all here waiting to fall in Inc
but at the last moment some OF the or.
CARNATIONS were compelled to desist
from participating Nevertheless the
occasion was memorable one for the
vast attendance. The governors OF
eleven great states, New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut,
and Massachusetts, in the North and
East; Pennsylvania and Maryland
among the middle states; Georgia,
North and South Carolina and Loui.
siana in the South, and Wisconsin in
the far west, participated in the
national ceremonies and thereby EN-
phasiZing complete restoration of the
nations unity.
The four great leading features, of the
Inauguration OF the day were the
closing hours of congress, into which
so much lawmakiug and history was
frequently crowded, the ride of the
retiring president and the president
and vice president. elect with military
escort from fhe White House to the
capitol to lay down and take up the
reigns Of power respectively, the pa.
geant of the returning procession and
review after the ceremonies of insug-
uration are over and the Inauguration
ball at night.
Since blunt old John Adams, grip.
sack in hand "slidn out of the White
House on early morning dawn OF
March 4, 1901, TO avoid extending
to his hated rival,
Thomas jefferson, the hospitality of
the executive mansion, there has been
no break in the uniform courtesy eX-
tended every 4 or s years by the retr-
ing chief to his successor unless there
be excepted the personal misunder-
standing which arose between presi-
dent Andrew Johnson and General
Grant in the last days of the formers
which made their in
tercourse frigid fOrmality.
In this year of grace the courtesy
between the outgoing and incoming
powers reigned supreme. All cere-
monial calls and other niceties of the
day were observed with n cheerful
elacrity indicative Ut almost cordial
The scene along the line of march
was such as no city but Washington
and no street but its broad Pennsyl-
vania avenue could produce. Public
and private stands were erected along
the line of march from the Capitol to
a point beyond the White House had
an estimaie ed seating capacity of 60, 900
persons, and every one of them was
crowded. Every foot of standing
room along the route of procession,
fully two miles in length was occu-
pied.
PRESIDENTS REVIEWING STAND.
The main stand from which
Cleveland reviewed the pa.
rade was erected Immediately in front
Of the White House. 1t was $50 feet
long and quite as deep and had a COM
seating capacity for 100 per-
sons, 600 more than the corresponding