The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
ROOSEVELT GOES In.
A Great Crowd Witnesses In
auguration Ceremonies.

Albany, N. z, Jan. 2-Theodore
Roosevelt was inaugurated as governor
of New York today. In spite of ex-
treme cold weather the ceremony was
witnessed by a great crowd of people
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
Episcopal diocese of Albany offered
prayer and Secretary of State Nc
Donough administered the oath of office
to the governor-elect, after which Gov
ernor E. S. Black welcomed his success
Sor.
Ex-Governor Blacks address was very
brief and closed as follows: "As to all
those citizens who place integrity above
personal advantage, there will arise
from this occasion a strong encourage
ment and a most sanguine hope. AL
though 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 career 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 will have moth
ing to fear and the people nothing to
Replying, Governor Roosevelt said in
part: "A very heavy responsibility
rests upon the governor of New York
state, state Of seven millions of in
habitants. of great wealth, of widely
varied industries and with a population
singularly diversified, not merely in
occupation. but in race origin, in habits
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not an easy task SO to frame our laws
that justice may be done to all alike in
such a population, so many of whom
have interests that seem entirely an
tagonistic. But upon the great and
fundamental issues of good government
there must always be a unity of inter
est among all persons who wish well to
the commonwealth. There is less need
of genius, or of any special briIliancy in
the administration of our government
than there is need of such hOmely
virtues and qualities as common senss,
honesty and courage" 1--WE
must realize on the one hand that we
can do little if we do not set ourselves
a high ideal, and on the other, that we
will fail in accomplishing this little If
we do not work through practical meth
DDS and with a readiness to face life
as it is and not as we think it ought to
be. Under no form of government is it
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
republic
1T is absolutely impossible for a re-
public long to endure il it becomes
either corrupt or cowardIy: if its public
men, no less than it's private men, lose
the indispensable virtue of honesty. if
it's leaders of thought become visionary
doctrinaires or ifit show a lack of courage
in dealing with the many grave prob
lens which it must surely face, both at
home and abroad. as it strives to work
out the destiny mete for a mighty ma
ton.
'It is only through the party system
that free governments are now success
fully carried on, and yet we must keep
ever wildly before us that the useful
ness of the party is strictly limited by
it's usefulness to the state and that in
the long run he serves his party best
who helps to make it instantly respon-
sive to every need of the people and to
the highest demands of that spirit
which tends to drive us onward and up
ward.
1T shall be my purpose, so far as I
am given strength to administer my of
flee with an eye single to the welfare of
all the people Of this great common