Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-05
A. B. WHITE.
A Review of state Affairs by the
Newly Inau-urated Governor.

A Review of state Affairs by the
Newly Inau-urated Governor.
| Special to the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, March A.
Following is the inaugural address OF
Hon. A. q. White:
Fellow Citizens of West Virginia.
In assuming the duties of the high Of
flee to which you have elected me by
such a large majority and on issues so
largely involving the business interests
and economic conditions of our State,
I wish to express my deep sense of OBJ
legation and sincere appreciation OF the
! great honor conferred. West Virginia
is my adopted State and has been my
home for two decades. In young man
hood I cast my lot with you of my own
free choice. AS the young mar and
young woman leave their parents
homes to unite in building up a new
| home as man and wife, on the endur-
ing basis of a love and attachment
stronger ever than that of child for
| parent, so has my love for my adopted
! State become of the deepest and the
strongest. 1t is no exaggeration 70
say tina. those who were born and
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where Providence placed them without
the exercise of an independent choice,
can and do have no more sincere at
| taohment for the mountain State than
| that increasingly large number of our
fellow citizens, who in mature years or
early manhood, came to u common
wealth of their own volition to make
it their future home. By their acts
and the exercise of their choice they
have shown an appreciation of the
great possibilities and future of our
| marvelously rich area of natural
wealth and by their capital, labor, skill,
| energy and patriotic zeal in advancing
the interests of West Virginia and its
development they have done and are
doing their full part in making ours
the richest and most prosperous State
in the Union. On behalf of those who
have come into our State and their
children, I wish to express their and
my W acknowledgement of the great
honor paid them and myself in elect
ing me by the largest majority ever
/ given a candidate for Governor in this
State. VIZ Virginia has thus pro-
claimed to the world that she has no
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lions to make against any person who,
in good faith, enters into her citizenship
| and gives his earnest efforts to making
an honest livelihood and to fulfilling
the duties of patriotic citizenship.
One word more of a personal char
acter: While elected as a partisan.
after being unanimously nominated by
a political party in the largest delegate
convention ever held in West Vir-
ginia, 1 shall nevertheless confidently
expect to receive the hearty support OF
men of all parties in my efforts to pro-
mote the welfare, prosperity and hap
piness or the people. 1t is because we
can all meet on the common ground OF
| the public good that this confident hope
Is expressed. In the administration OF
the laws and in the upbuilding OF u
| State we should be first citizens and
| patriotic West Virginians. We can
best serve our State by joining hands
in a common effort to administer all
our public affairs with an eye single
to the best interests Of the State. My
endeavor will be to represent the en-
tire people and to be Governor for all
the people.
The responsibilities of the executive
are great and yet his powers at best are
limited. The incoming Governor has
no legislature to advise with for two
years. His responsibilities include the
preservation of the peace; he IS COM
mander in chief Of the militia; he must
pass upon questions of life and death;
he is likely to be called upon to decide
whether the legislature should be con
vened in extra session; and he has the
great responsibility of the appointment
| of members OF the various boards OF
| administration in charge of the public
institutions Of the State. The execu-
tive does not legislate in regard TO or
appropriate the public funds; nor does
he make the laws or interpret them.