Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-03-04
DEMOCRACY'S BIG DAY
CLEVELAND COMMANDS THE
SHIP OF STATE.
HE TAKES THE OATH OF OFFICE
AT NOON.
TKzH: PROCESSION MOVES IN
a ROWLING GALE.


land. of New York, thrice nominated for
President of the United States, and twice
elected. was today successfully inducted
into that high office for his second term,
with all appropriate ceremonies and the
gathering of a mighty multitude. and in
spite of a bowling gale of snow and
wind.
The last occasion waSgreater than the
first. 1t was more imposing in the mill
tary and civic display. In 1885 there
were at the outside not more than 25,-
900 men in line in the inaugural parade.
Today, had the atmospheric conditions
been anyt hing like favorable, instead of
being as bad as could possibly be, there
would probably have been 10000 men
and a number of ladies marching or
riding in the parade. They were all
here waiting to fall i'll line, but at the
last moment many Of the organizations
were compelled to desist from participa-
ton. Nevertheless the occasion was
made memorable by the vast attend
ance. Today, also, the governors of
eleven great States-New York, New Jcr-
sey, Connecticut and Massachusetts in
the north and east; OF Pennsylvania and
Maryland among the middle States; of
Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana
in the south; and of Wisconsin in the far
| west-participatedi in the national ccre-
monies and thereby emphasized the COM
plete restoration of national unity. More
interesting and significant even than this,
/ he off, ut her q nd
the historian, were the manifest ations of
marvellous growth of the country in
population and power, and the fact
that this m momentous and ajestic change
in the government of 60, 900, 900 of peo-
pie was accomplished according to cut
| and dried formula, every step of which
| was planned and publicly announced be-
| forehand, and without no ticea BILE disturb
ance of public interests or the creation oi
any excitement, except that naturally ac'
lcompany1ng great national pageant
and the influx of two or three hundred
thousand sight-seers into the Capitol.
1t Was Democratic Though.
The order Of proceeding was almost
identically the same as four years ago
with the exception of the chief partici
pants reversed, and it differed very little
except in the ex tent of the demonstration
from the ceremonies Of eight years ago
which brought Mr.. r.Clevcland to Washing
ton (on the I'd of March, 1850 for th
first time in his public career. Time ant
that "capacious urn" oc death whicl
i"keeps every man in motion" hat
wrought rnanv changes in the interest
however. The most dramatic inciden
connected with Mr.. Clevelands first in
auguration was the passage by the Hous
of Representatives, under the skifu
management of Speaker Randall of tn
bill which authorized the placing of Ger
eral Grant on the retired list of the arm
with the rank and pay of full general
President Authors nomination of tn
dying hero to the position thus created
and the Senate's immediate confrmatio
of the appointment, in open executiv
session. then and there held for the frs
and only time in it's history-all this al
complished within a few minutes of til
hour when the 4Sth Congress and the az
ministration of President Arthur passe
out of existence together, and while Vic
President Hendricks was waiting at tt
door of the Senate chamber to take tt
oath of Office at the hands of Actinl
Vice President Edmunds, and barely 9
minutes before Mr.. Cleveland commence
reading his inaugural address from tt
east portico OF the Capitol. Grant an
Arthur, Hendricks and Randall, the Chi
actors in this memorable drama, ha,
all since been called away, and Senate
Edmunds has retired to private life.
Four years later. when Mr.. Clevear
in turn Surrendered the chief executi'
office of the nation to Benjamin Hari
son. conspicuous in the distinguish,
throng participating in the ceremoni
in the Senate chamber, were ex- Vice Pre-
ident Hamlin. Gen. Tecumseh Sherma
- James G. Blaine, William Window, al
~ John c. Fremont, each of whom HI
since passed to his reward. VIII
= changes another four years mGy bril-
none may divine, but the experience
the past is eloquent in it's suggestivene
of the possibilities of the future.
More GentIemanlv Row.
} There are four great leading featur
of every Inauguration Day: The Gle
ing hours of Congress, into which
much law-making and history are #
Z. quently crowded; the ride of the retir
President and the President and vi
President-Electw with their military
cort from the White House to the Ca
tol to lay down and take up the reins
power respectively; the pageant Of
. returning procession and review afi
the ceremonies are over, and the inaul
at CiuNC
John Adams, gripsack in hand, "sliC
out of the White House in the eai
dawn of March 4. 1901, to avoid
tending to his hated rival, Thomas
ferson, the hospitalities Of the e1ecut
mansion, there has been no break in
uniform courtesy extended every four
eight years by the retiring chief to
successor, unless there be excepted
personal misunderstanding which arr
between President Andrew Johnson a
General Grant in the last days of the {
mer's administration. which made th
their intercourse frigid formality.
this year of grace, courtesy between
IC. outgoing and incoming powers
reigned supreme, as witness the bauqu
lac given by the Senate without distinct
Of party, to Vice President Morton g
Secretary Carlisle; the reception tende
by Vice-President Morton to Vice-Pr
dent Stevenson and the marked civilit
h.kwr D~a.sAa,ka uorrs,