The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-03
Takes the Oath Of Office as Gov
ernor Of New York.
A Parade Of Civic and Military Bodies a
Feature Of the Day.
Addresses Of the Outgoing and In
coming Chief Magistrates of the
Empire State Listened to by
Large Crowd in the Assembly
Hall of the Capitol at Albany.

ALBANY On. W, Jan. 2.-Theodore
Roosevelt was inaugurated as Governor
of New York to-day. In spite or eX-
tremely cold weather the ceremony was
witnessed by great crowd, gathered
in the assembly hall of the Capitol.
Preceding the Inauguration there was a
parade of civic and military bodies.
Bishop Doane Of the Protestant Epis-
copal diocese Of Albany offered prayer
and Secretary Of State McDonough adj
ministered the oath of office to the Gov
ernor- elect, after which Governor F. S.
Black welcomed his successor. His ad-
dress was very brief and closed as
follows:
s.As to all those citizens who place in
tegrity above personal advantage there
will arise from this occasion a strong
encouragement and a most sanguine
hope. Although the State is now upon
the full tide Of prosperity and many
full grown evils have been killed and
many others wounded yet there is much
left to be done and the people welcome
to this high official post one whose ca
reer has demonstrated his integrity, his
courage and his skill.
"They have vested you with ample
power and they will exact great results,
but If the qualities that have thus far
moved and supported you hereafter
keep you company, you have nothing to
fear and nothing to regret"
Replying, Governor Roosevelt said in
part:
"A heavy responsibility rests upon the
Governor of New York State, a State
of 100000 of inhabitants, of great
wealth, of widely varied industries and
with a population singularly diversified,
not merely in occupation, but in race,
in origin, in habits Of life and in ways
of thought
cit is not an easy task to SO frame
our laws that Justice may be done to
all alike in such a population, SO many
Of whom have interests that seem en-
tirely antagonistic. But upon the great
and fundamental issues Of good govern
ment there must always be a unity of
interest among all persons who wish
good to the commonwealth.
There is less need Of genius or Of
any special brilliancy in the admins
tration Of our government than there is
need of such homely virtues and quail
ties as common sense, honesty and
courage.
1--WE must realize on the one hand
that we can do little if we do not set
for ourselves a high ideal and on the
other hand that we will fail in accom-
plishing even this little if we do not
work through practical methods and
with a readiness to face life as il is
and not as we think it ought to be.
Under no form of government is 1t
so necessary thus to combine efficiency
and morality, high principle and rough
common sense, justice and the sturdiest
physical and moral courage as in a re-
public. 1t is absolutely impossible for
a republic long to endure if it becomes
either corrupt OF cowardly; if it's pub
lie men no less than it's private men
lose the indispensable virtue of honesty:
if its leaders of thought become vision
airy doctrinaries, or if it shows a lack
of courage in dealing with the many
grave problems which it must SURELY
face, both at home and abroad, as it
strives to work out the destiny meant
for a mighty nation.
ut is only through the party system
that free governments are now sue
cessfully carried on and yet we must
keep ever wildly before us that the
usefulness of a party is practically
limited by it's usefulness to the State.
and that in the long run he serves his
party best who helps to make it in
stantly responsive to every need of the
people and to the highest demands of
that spirit which tends to drive us on
ward and upward
lit shall be my purpose, so far as I
am given strength, to administer nv
office with an eye single to the welfare
of all the people of this great common
wealth.
At the public reception in the leg
islative chamber in the afternoon fulIy
5000 people grasped Governor Roose-
velt's hand, and 1900 more. were I'M
able to gain admittance Before the
reception an elegant bronze inkstand
was presented to Governor Roosevelt
by the members of the Hamilton Club
of Chicago, a, large delegation of which
was present at the inaugural cere-
monies.
After luncheon there was a recep-
ton at the Executive Mansion.
DECTAREn A nm Axry