The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1893-03-05
GREATEST Event.
"rHE KING Is DEAD. LONG ,svp
THE KING.o
Mr.. Cleveland Inaugurated
Amid the Most Imposing Ceremonies
Great Throng Present-Scenes
I'm the Senate Chamber.
The Address of Vice-President Steven-
son-The Inaugural Address of
Mr. .CleVeIand-The Grand
Civic and Military
Parade.
Mr.. Cleveland Inaugurated

WASHINGTON, ID = March 4 Grover
Cleveland, Of New York, thrice nomi
nat d for President of the United s. ates
and twice elected, was to-day succe ss-
I, fully indicted into that high office for
his second term, with all appropriate ce-
remonies and the gathering of a mighty
! multitude. The last occasion was greater
! than the first In 1885 there were It the
| outside not more than 25, 900 men in line
IN the inaugural parade. At least 40 OOO
men, with a leaven of fair women.
marched to day along the great national
avenue to or from the capitol. To day
/ also, the governors OF eleven great states.
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut aud
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 Wisconsin in the far west,
participated in the national ceremonies
and thereby emphasized the complete
restoration of national unity More in
teresting and significant even than this.
pc haps, In the eyes of other nations ard
the historian, were the manifestations Of
the marvellous growth Of tae country
IN population and power, and the
fact that this mcmentous ard ma
jestic change in the government
OF sixty-tive millions of people was ac-
complished according to a cut and dried
formula, every step Of which was planned
and publicly announced beforehand. aud
without noticeable disturbance of public
interests or the creation of auy excite
ment, except that naturally accompany
ing great nst onal pageant, and the in
fux Of two or three hundred thousand
sight seers into the capital
The order Of proceeding was almost
identicslly the same as four years ago,
with the action of the participants re-
versed, and it ffered very little, except
IL the extent Of the demo nstration, fro N
the cere monies OF eight years ago which
brought Mr. Cleveland 10 Washington
(on the 2d of March, 1880 for the first
, time in bis public career Time, and
) that ''capscious urn of death which
keeps every eye in motion, had
wrought many changes in the interim
however. The most dramatic incident
connected with Mr.. Cleveland's first in
! auguratlon, was the passage by the House
: OF representatives., under the skiltu
g management of Speaker Randall, Of tht
/ bill which authoIiZ, d the placing of Gen
e eral Grant upon the retired list of III,
army, with the rank and p6y Of ful
!. general; president Arthur's nOminatloI
d of the dying hero to the position thu
. created, and the Senate's in mediate con
= hrmation of the appOir tment, in opel
{, executive session then and there held 70
e the first and only time in its histOry-a al
:, this accom- plished within few minute
when the Forty eighth Congress ard th
. administration passed ont OF exisienC
{, together, and while vice president Hen
dTlcks was waiting at the door of til
;, Senate chamber to take the oath of oftiC
= at the hands of acting vice
president Edmunds, and bartly twent
minutes before President elect Cleve
. lard commenced reading his inaugurs
address from the east pOrtico of the CaI
itol. Grant and Arthur, Hendricks al
Randall, the chief actors in this memo
i rable drama, have all since been calle
away, and Senator Edmunds has retire
TO private life.
IN Four wears later, when Mr.. Clevelan
ln in turn surrendered the chief executiy
- Office Of the nation to Benjamin Harr
h. son, conspicuous in the 0istinguishe
ii ihrong participating in the ceremonl
y In the senate chamber, were ex Vic
- = President Hamlin, General Tecumsf
ts 81 E.rman, james G. Blaine, Villa
IN Window and John G. Fremont, each
I'd whom has since passed to his rewer
Az WHAT changes another four years IN;
bring none may divine, but the G.
perlence of the past is eloquent in i
suggestiveness Of the possibilities Ci t
Il future.
There are four great leading ieatur
of Inauguration day: The closing hu u
of Congress, into which SO much la
making and history are frequent
u. crowded the ride of the retiring Pre-
nj deot and the President and Vice Pre-
* dent elect with their military c-cl
re from the White House to the Capitol
/! lIs lay down and take up the reins of pow
rv respectively; the pageant of the retur
zee Jug procession and review after the Gel
ID MONIES of Inauguration are over, and !
Inauguration ball at night. Since blu
old John Adams, gripsack IN han
''sld" out of the White House in
= early morning dawn of March Ash, 1S(
a TO avoid extending to his hated rlr
Thomas Jefferson the hospitalities Of t
executive mansion, taere has been
Of break in the uniform courtesy ext. nj
IN N, se very four or, eight years by the retiri
pG G chief to his successor, unI
tn, there be excepted the personal mist
ng derstanding which arose betwe
,hs President Andrew Johnson a
''sso General Grant in the last days of
les formers administration, which ma
~ their intercourse frigId formaiity.
{ a. this year Of grace courtesy between
oy outgoing and incoming powers
reigned supreme, as witness. the bs
nj auets given by the senate without G
,,o m tlncton OF party to Vice President M
~ w. ton and Secretary Carlisle; the rec
" ton rendered by Vice President Nor
'tr to Vice President Stevenson, and
n, marked civilities exchanged betw'
- Presidents Harrison and Cleveland
l.l desire the ideas Of President Harris
lore carried out as to my conveyance to
inaugural ceremonies" wrote MIR. Cle
lrs' land. "a very sensible suggestion
attributed to him, and that is that L r
'ul, in his carriage as he did in mine on
't 'nu 4th of March, 1889" And 80 1t W
and All the ceremonial calls and other nj
t1e ties of the day were observed betw
an them with cheerful alacrlty indlcat
10. of almost cordial friendship.
eirs The scene along the line of march
~. such as TO city but Washington and
me- me. .treet but its broad, we'll paved Penn
E, vauia avenue could produce. The he
N rain storm of Tuesday had washed az
dn. ihe the snow and prepared the city tor
rch, beautiful weather which "ee W ~,
the Public and private stands erected al
Vt IL the line of march from the capitol t
,sd oM- point beyond the White House had
estimated seating capacity of 60, OOO
sons, and every one of them was crowo
e. Previous experience with Knights Te