Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-03-06
Many Governors Present.

The states of the union rendered
their homage to the president, and
demonstrated thai no party feeling
dominated to-day's great event by
the attendance Of Il governors rep
resenting north, south and west,
most of them accompanied by nu-
merous stats. There were Gov.
Odell, of New York; Gov. Yates, of
| Illinois; Gov. Bliss, of Michigan;
Gov. Van Sandt, of Minnesota; Coy.
Richards, of Wyoming; Gov. Stone,
| of Pennsylvania; Gov. Dietrich. of
Nebraska; Gov. Shaw, of Iowa; Gov.
Crane, of Massachusetts,; Gov. Nc
Millin, of Tennessee; Gov. Dockery,
of Missouri; Gov. Barnes, of Okla
homa; Gov. Smith, of Maryland, and
Gov. Longino, of Mississippi.
Vice President Inaugurated.
The inaugural ceremonies proper for
| the first time were conducted by a
| Joint committee Of the senate and
house. the custom heretofore having
| been to leave the conduct Of the inau-
| gurati tor entirely in the hands of the
upper body of congress. At II O'Clock
| Mr. Roosevelt took the oath of the vice
presidency in the senate chamber in
the presence of President Mckinley
and a distinguished company. After
the delivery of his inaugural address
the vice president administered the
oath of office to the senators-elect.
RooseveIt's Address.
Vice President Roosevelt said:
."The history of free government is in
large part the history of those representa-
tive Legislative bodies, in which from the
earliest times, free government has found
it's loftiest expression. They must ever
hold a peculiar and exalted position in the
record which tells how the great nations
of the world have endeavored to achieve
and preserve orderly freedom. No man
can render to his fellows greater service
than is rendered to him who, with fearless
ness and honesty, with sanity and disinter-
estedness does his life work as member
of such a body Especially is this the case
! when the Legislature in which the service
is rendered, is a vital part in the govern
ment machinery of one of those world
powers to whose hands, in the course Of
the ages, is intrusted a leading part in
shaping the deStinies of mankind. For
veal or for woe, for good or for evil, this is
true of our own mighty nation. Great
privileges and great powers are ours, and
nGdVy are the Responsiveness llol 81 WILL
these privileges and these powers. Ac-
cordingly as we do well or i'll, so shall man
kind in the future be raised or cast down
We belong to young nation already OF
giant strength, yet whose present
strength is but a forecast of the power
that is to come. We stand supreme in q
continent, in a hemisphere. East and west
we look across the two great oceans to-
ward the larger worId-life in which, wheth-
er we will or not, we must take an ever in
creasing share. And as, keen-eyed, we
gaze into the coming years, duties, new
and old, rise thick and fast to confront us
from within and from without. There is
every reason why we should face these du-
ties With a sober appreciation alike Of
their Importance and of their difficulty
But there is also every reason for facing
them with high hearted resolution anG
eager and confident faith IN our capacity
to do them Alright. A great work lies ready
| to the hand of this generation; it should
count itself happy indeed that to it is giver