Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-06
iNAuGURATED


tErtOurse VIII -tHStprs.
Turning then to the Old hea,isnen of the
Democratic administration, be administered
ID him the oath OF office, raising his voice
80 that every body heard the grave sentence
~ og s0iemnly swear to defend and sup
port the constitution of the United States
against all enemies, foreign AMI domestic"
hush fell upon ihe audience, and Mr..
Morton lowered his voics. to raise it again
only nj the last sentence $50 help you
/ Cod 4
Then Mr. Morton turned AMI left the
| platform. 50 that the new Vice President
found himself alone aud face 10 face
with bis duties, At the same moment
erlerk dipped pen into an ink pot AMI
I hanled il TO the new Vire-pres lent. who
I signed his uaHle to the oath of office, That
was the sud If that session Chaplin But
/ Ter Of the Senate offered short prayer
1 NicePrcsifent Stevenson, rising to make
| bis introductory address to the SENATE, fol-
| lowed the example set by Mr.. Morton and
read what he irid 10 say from several sheets
of paper. lie began with reference TO
| the past occupants of the Presidential chair
durirg the century ami four years Of our
| constitutional history. He shook 18th ncr-
sousness so that his hand trenbled like
that Of man who sees a deer for the first
time and tries to shoot it.
The secretary of the Senate. Gen. Me-
Cook, at the request of Mr.. Stevenson,
then read the proclamation of Benjamin
| Harrison calling an extra session of the
Senate. Though President Harrison wrote
this proclamation Mt least a week ago, it
~ill forever appear on the public records
rs the last act of his honored career as
] President
Then came the swearing-in of the new
seuators. In the first group that came up
TO the desk, none were really new except
/ tllen of Nebraska, an enormous, priestly-
! looking man, who seemed to be seven feet
| high. The others, Allrieh of Rhode
slani, Bate of Tennessee and Cockrell of
Missouri, were already senator's, having
been reelected. Edward Murphy, lr, of
Troy came up with later group, AMI in
taking the pIsce OF Senator Iiscoek had
the distinguished honor of giving New York
its first complete Democratic representation
in the Senate since the Oldest inhabitant
can remember.
While the swearing-in.of the new sena.
tors went on there was stampede from all
parts of the building of those persons who
wanted to get out upon the platform on the
froat of which Grover Cleveland was to in
augurste four wears of Democratic rule.
The scene out of doors was forbiiding and
inhospitahle. Beyond the chairs for the
hon0red guests and officials stood patient
multitude of 10000 or perhaps 10000
souls. Far away in front and on either
side they stood in solid mass, seeming to
be of about one height and presenting the
! appearance of "A great pavement made of
round hats instead of cobble stones.
The weather was having mad holiday.
The wind was swooping down over the
snow beyond the crowd and tossing it on
high and blowing it in great sheets. The
black and naked trees were reeling and
trembling in the fitful gales. The cold was
intense, and was made worse by the damp
ness--not only the moisture, but the ice and
suow water under foot
For hours these people had stood there
waiting to see their President follow the
admirable American custom of taking the
oath before the people whose servant he is
to become
In little time Mrs Cleveland appeared
On the great porch Of the Capitol and under
a blaze of drapery made by two United
States flags hung upon either side of the
blue flag of the President. She, too, car
ried the national colors, for the cheeks of
! litt Nititt tt't WIN ltbs du'i VIE
rap she wore was blue. She rested her
hand on the arm of Mr. Norris, and the
multitude taking him for Mr. Cleveland,
cheered them Justify. She and Mrs. Bissell
AMI Miss Love OF Buffalo, and Mrs. Lamont
aud Charles Goodyear and his wife came
trooping down to the front seats.
just be fore them was square box
fenced in with flags, carpcted with green
/ BRUSSELS carpet and appointed with mum
Der of comfortable leather chairs. This
WAS where the President was to be sworn
in. \ rcstrum was MAIZE by putting table
un top of big table IN front of it. Pres
emily down came Richard Watson Glider,
/ Don Dickinson and Mrs Stevenson AMI
her biushng daughters. Then there was
hong wait
Al last they came. The procession was
! led by the marshal of the district and the
! MARSHAL of the supreme court. Then came
I Vice President Morton and the justices and
/ the clerk OF the court carving the little old
Bible which Mr.. Clevelani's mother gave
20 him and on which he was sworn in to OF
! fee AZ governor and az President eight
! wears ago.
/ Mr.. Cleveland arose and faced the peo-
I pie. He took hts high hat OIL aud hell ii
! in his hand. A. he turned AMI faced the
I people swirl Of snow came out of the sky
and beat slsntingwise across his face and
on his bare head.
| When he began his speech it was hoped
that. he would presently cover his head
| When he failed to do so some one called to
him to put on his hat. Many thought him
/ foolharfy, and tonight thousands of people
have gone TO bed believing that he must be
seized with some illness on account of his
exposure.
| But there was no friend of President
/ Cleveland who ever dreamed for minute
| that be would put his hat on. They knew
/ that he felt that he was in the presence of
the malesty of our country, the people, and
that he considered it incumbent on himself
| to remain hareheaded when Introducing
| himself as their servant. Sentiment plays
a tremendous part in Grover Cleveiand's
constitution. and he never fails to Weld to it,
/ lie spoke slowly and very distinctly, and
1 lid not siorten the speech that he had pre-
pared. He spoke without notes, as he al
| WAYS does Ii is said of him that he never
read a speech in his life. In the act of
writing it he half commits it to memory.
and then, with one more reading, he knows
every word and punctuation mark in it,
| The multitude that composed his audi
tutt pressing tfuet tpeStNtt-
but the soldiers OF the back of the crowd
were unable to do this. On that account
| they presently fell to dancing like minstrels
/ or mad men, producing the most comieal
scene that has ever been witnessed at an
Inauguration.
| At the close OF his speech he went back
into the Capitol. Then the procession was
| formed and he took his place in it, riding
again in Mr.. Hsrrisons carriage, behind the
four bay horses. He got out of his car
riage a. the White House and then took his
PLACE on the reviewing stand in front of
that building, where for several hours, with |
the same discomfort that a quarter of /
million Of persons suffered, he saw the I
worst managed, most frequently DELAYED /
procession that has ornanented snch an |
occasion for many years.
There WAS much disorder, and there was |
drunkenness so general that even some SOL 1
dier< and many policemen shared in it. 1t 4
has been so cold that men and very many 1
women yielded to the temptation to take /
frequently of liquor, and the consequence /
WAS pitifnl. 1t was bad enough to see /
drunken nilitismen trailing the butts of 4
their guns in the mud as they staggered (
through the streets. but it was worse to hear
Of distinguished public men showing them
selves in disgracefnl conditions on the re-
viewing stand, and il was thousand times /
worse TO hear of the drunken women who
accounpanied these men