St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-07
GOVERNOR WELLS IN OFFICE.
THOUSANDS CHEER THE FORTY
FIFTH STAR OF THE
FLAG.
PARADE THROUGH THE STREETS.
City to Participate in the
GIOrification.


outside points and thousands of home
people, which made locomotion we'll
nigh impossible through the public
thoroughfares. The great procession
under the direction of Grand Marshal
Burton and aides presented a magnifi-
cent spectacle as it wended it's way to
the Tabernacle, which it reached at
noon, and which had crowded within
It's walls more people than ever passed
its portals in one assemblage before.
The decorations of the Tabernacle were
most lavish. Spread beneath the CEN
trail surface of the dome-like ceiling.
was "Old Glory" the largest American
flag ever made. In the upper corner,
among the other stars. was the forty
fifth, representing Utah. BY means of
an incandescent light the new star cast
its rays on the patriotic thousands who
sat in the gallery and the audience
below. From this great flag were
numberless red, white and blue stream
ers running in all directions, uniting
with an elaborate fringe of bunting
and flags which decorated the face of
the gallery All the speakers stands
were most beautifully draped, while a
great American eagle surmounted the
tower between the great pipes of the
organ and Immediately below was the
word Utah." magnificent electrical
creation. On the speakers stands were
many prominent citizens, among them
the following: Presidents X Wood
ruff, Cannon and Smith, Hon. Joseph
L. Rawlins, Acting Governor Richards
Gov. Wells, Chief Justice Zane, Judges
Miner, Bartch, King, Judd, Baskin,
Commers, Tatlock and Sherman.
Precisely at 1915 Acting Governor
Richards called the vast audience to
order. He spoke very briefly and the
substance of his remarks was as fol-
lows:
A BLESSED DAY.
II feel very sensibly the great honor the
committee has conferred on me in selecting
me to MI this important position today. For
nearly nifty years the people of Utah have
been patiently and prayerfully awaiting for
this auspicious occasion-this blessed day.
Ever since my childhood / have been taught
that the time would come when the citizens
would be accorded every political and civil
right granted to their fellow citizens through
out the United States. This is the proudest
day of my life, and when say that but
press the feelings of at least a quarter of a
million of people, who will join in saluting
the new star and in giving thanks for the
abandonment of territorial bondage for that
more perfect government to be found under
statehood" Applause).
Acting Gov. Richards announced
that President Woodruff was to have
offered the opening prayer, but that
the state of his health was such as to
prevent him from doing so. He had,
however. prepared an invocation
which would be delivered by President
ton the great chorus of 1000 voices
arose and sang, amid the effective
waving of American flags, the Star
Sbangled Banner" This number was
followed by stirring applause on the
part of the multitude within the taber-
nacle. Chairman Richards here in
troduced amidst uncontrolled applause
and cheering, Hon. Joseph l.. Rawlins,
who read President Cleveland's procla-
nation announcing the admission of
Utah into the Union. After the proc
lamation was read Mr.. Rawlins turned
to Heber M. Wells and presented to
him the pen which President Cleve-
land signed the bill under which Utah
became state.
CHANGING GOVERNORS.
Acting Gov. Richards then an
nounced that the time had arrived for
the federal government to withdraw
from the cOnlFOl OIL dlldlTS VI Tie leI-
ritory and surrender up to the people
and to the native of Utah who had
been chosen governor of the new state.
He said: "As the governor of the ter
ritory of Utah l now surrender to your
favored servant the executive office
upon his taking the oath prescribed by
the constitution, which will now be
administered by Chief Justice Zane"
Gov. Wells and other state officers
then took the oath of office. The
chorus rendered Prof. Stevens new
song, Utah, 1 Love Thee" Gov.
Wells then delivered his inaugural ad-
dress, which was in part as follows:
"Let US congratulate the pioneers, that he
roc band OF patriots who blazed way for
Western civilization, who turned the waters
upon the burning soil, and wrung from des-
olat.on the bounteous harvest which we are
rearing who planted the stars and stripes
on yonder peak, and in the name of freedom
began the work which are consummatins
now. AS for those who followed in their
wake whether we came to Utah IN the slow
moving prairie schooner Of frontier days or
in the lightning express train OF more recent
years, or whether born upon the soil, let US
clasp hands upon this natal day and con.
graduate each other on the happy solution OF
all past contentious and our succession TO the
full rights and privileges of citizenship in a
free and sovereign state OF the grandest re-
public the world has ever seen And while
felicitating ourselves and our state upon her
admission into the Union, let us not omit to
congratulate the Union upon the acquiSi-
ton of another commonwealth of magnificent
proportions and superb possibilities.
''If l were asked to enumerate in more
specific terms the riches that Utah affords the
country, recompense for her statehood. |
would say she offers the gold and silver lead
and copper and iron of her mountains the
luxurious soil of her valleys; the matchless
life-saving climate; a most efficient public
school system, and the gratitude of happy,
homogeneous and patriotic people"
The governor then reviewed in detail the
many efforts made by Utah TO secure state
hood from 1S47 to the present day. Continu-
ing, he said:
What better evidence of the entire SINGER
ity of all the people in their present convic-
tions could be given than that Chief Justice
Zane, who, in the past, acting under a con-
scientious regard for duty, has sentenced
hundreds of Mormons to the penitentiary,
now sits upon this platform as the honored
choice Of the electors of Utah for the high
est judicial Office in the state and that
Mormon born and reared should be delivering
from the same platform this address as the
governor of Utah?"
The delivery Of the address was re-
ceived with applause, as was the rendi-
tion Of America by the great chorus,