The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-03-10
WARRINGTON LITTER.

Democratic enthusiasm cannot be
washed out, showed out, blowed out
or froze out. The north wind blew
the snow fell and there were iccles
hanging from the trees, houses, and
the whiskers of men, but these little
annoyances did not count when it
came to inaugurating democratic
President. Mr.. Cleveland proved his
indifference to them by declining to
deliver his inaugural address in the
Senate chamber, instead of from the
open-air platform on the east front Of
he Capitol, before which, standing
in the snow storm, were about Io,-
900 people. He thought, and cor
rectly, too, that if these people were
good enough democrats to brave the
storm to see him-few Of them could
get near enough to hear him-de-
liver his inaugural address and take
the oath of Office, he was good
enough democrat to take off his
hat, storm or no storm, and do it,
and he did.
There isn't money enough in exis-
tence to buy from the President the
worn bible upon which he took the
oath Of Office in 1885, and upon
which Chief Justice Fuller admins
tered to him the same oath Saturday.
1t is more valuable than gold or
precious stones; it was his mothers,
and Mr.. Cleveland has never for.
cotton the the commandent,
"Honor thy father and mother" etc.
Not since the second Inauguration
of Cant has there been such a
disagreeable Inauguration day, but the
only noticeable effect the weather
had was to keep a few men whose
health was not robust out of the
parade, which was over three hours
long as it was, to disfgure and dis
arrange the house decorations and to
postpone the fireworks. Everything
else went off according to pre-
gramme, just as would have been
done had the day been clear and
balmy as that on which Mr.. Cleve-
land was first inaugurated. On the
reviewing stand with the President
and Vice President were large
number OF prominent ladies and
gentlemen, among them Mrs. Cleve-
land and Mrs. Stevenson.
1t is difficulty to say which of the
democratic governors in the process
ion received the grandest ovations
along the line of march, but Peck, of
Wisconsin, Flower, of New York
and Russell, of Massachusetts,, have
good reason to put the day down
among the proudest of their lives.
1t is generally conceded that the
Inaugural ball was the most success
full, from every point of view ever
held, and that the decorations of
of the ball room were handsomer and
more artistic than had ever been seen
here. The members of the COM
mittee in charge started out to make
this Inauguration memorable one in
every respect, and they succeeded.
1t was a great day for Grover
Cleveland, greater one for the
democratic party, and greatest Of all
for the country, beginning, as it did,
an era of real, simon-pure demo-
cratic government, not the pinchbeck
kind the republicans have given us.
President Clevelands inaugural
address was a model of its kind. A
plain honest, straightforward state
ment of his intention to carry out to
its fullest extent the platform upon
which he was nominated and elected,
and particularly noticeable was the
complete ignoring of the Hawaiia
annexation scheme. 1t is evident,
and particularly gratifying to demo-
Gratis, that Mr.. Cleveland intends to
investigate that subject more
thoroughly than Mr.. Harrison did
before committing himself, and as he
put himself, in his address, squarely
on record as opposed to subsidies
and bounties of all kinds it is certain
that if Hawaiia gets annexed its
sugar planters will get no bounty on
their sugar.
The Vice-P President, in his address,
upon assuming the chair of the
Senate at the opening of its extra
session, made an excellent impression
upon the Senators as well as upon the
public. His popularity with t).t rank
and file of the democratic par IS un-
bounded and what is more the
point it is all deserved. He made
of the right sort of stuff. ! news
paper man was telling him 1at he
supposed the dignity of his lew Of
fee would prevent a resun on OF
the free and easy method in> '-5ue in
his office, when he was first g. slant
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