The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-02
THE INAUGURATION OF ODELL.
Indicted Into Oaicc at Albany with
n Greut DisplaN.

n Great Display.
ALBANY, N Y. Jan. Benjamin b
odell. jr.. of Newburg. was inaugurated
as Governor of the State of New York al
noon today to succeed Theodore Roose-
Welt
The oath of Office was administered to
him in the Assembly Chamber of the Capt.
toll. which was crowded as it never was
| before. and while about $500 people got
within the walls of the chamber, there
were several thousand who clamored for
admission and struggled to enter the
doors. but to no avail for it was impossi-
Bile to squeeze another one in.
In surrendering the gubernatoral Office
to Governor odell, Mr. Roosevelt said:
Governor Odell: 1t becomes from this
moment your high and solemn duty to
stand at the executive head of the greatest
State within our Union, State which in
point of size. population. wealth. and wide
variety of interests and of industries. rises
among many world famous Kingdom or
Commonwealth. Great powers are given
you on the one hand. and. on the other
hand your task is neither light nor easy.
But you come to it with the special ability
and special training which peculiarly fit
you to perform it ably and we'll.
In sense a Governors term begins
with his election for as soon as elected
he must begin to make ready for his ex-
acting and engrossing duties. The earnest
ness you have already given us of the way
in which you regard these duties. and Of
the spirit in which you approach them. is
such that we have the right TO express,
rot merely the hope, but the confident be-
lief. that at the end of your term as Gov
ernor you viii have won the right to
stand high in that list of public servants
whose memory the great Empire State de-
lights to hold in peculiar honor"
The new Governor was heartily ap-
piauded when he stepped forward to reply
to Mr.. Roosevelt's address. He said:
With the assumption of responsibilities
1t was with doubt and uncertainty which
even the applause and good wishes of cur
friends cannot entirely dissipate. Esre-
cially is this true of him into whose keep
ing Is placed the administration Of the
affairs of our Commonwealth. New York
an empire in itself, with its vast popula-
ton, its many diverse interests. demands
from its Chief Executive the greatest
conservatism, wisdom as to its needs. and
that its business affairs shall be trans
acted with economy ana good judgment
Under our form of government. when
the will of the majority has been express
ed, we should forget our partisanship in
our desire to uphold and strengthen the
hands of those whom for the time being
we have clothed with authority and upon
whom the responsibility for the proper
enforcement OF our laws is placed
The success of our State administra
tion depends as much upon its component
parts as upon the aggregate, and it is a
right which the executive can demand. and
every loyal citizen should accord, that in
every municipality, in every township and
hamlet the same economical conditions
shall prevail as are expected in the adj
ministration of our State affairs.
The burdens of taxation should be so
adjusted as to fall lightly upon those who
can ill-afford to bear them, and be borne
more generously by those who have re-
ceived from the State protection and
rights which have given to their vast
business interests the success they de-
serve. Combination in restraint of indi-
vidual rights should be curbed and a well
come extended to all whose energy and
genius Will add to the lustro and fame of
the Empire State and aid us in unfolding
our business and commercial supremacy.
The care of our wards should be as gen
erous as their necessities may require
never extraTagant and never niggardly.
ITO the Governor is entrusted the exc
making power of the Commonwealth. The
duties are separate and distinct, and can
never be combined without serious i'm
pairment in the efficiency of both. Ii
shall be my object, therefore, to keep
strictly within the letter and spirit CT
the law and to give effect to such acts Of
the Legislature as may seem TO me to lie
in the direction of public good. withhold
ing approval only when such measures
fal hal rd In II
in the contamination of all worthy prof.
ects. | shall be guided solely by the de-
sire to give to the mandates of our con-
stitution their full effect. and to the wish
es of our people their full purport.
If in the performance CT these duties
shall in a measure be as successful as
have so many OF my predecessors: If upon
the threshold of new ceI tury with all
of its possibilities, the positive and sf-
irmatiYe action of the incoming adminis-
tration can aid in solving those great
questions which so much interest us. l
shall feel as much pride IN the contem-
platiOn OF such results as you do sir as
you look back upon the success which has
attended your administration
The weather was all that could be de-
sired for an inaugural day With a bright.
clear sky, the temperature below the
freezing point and the rain OF the day be-
fore had washed the stree is so that they
were clean and In good order for the in
augural parade.
The throngs of people that wished to see
the ceremonies and get near the scene OF
the exercises that attended the Inaugural
ton began to arrive early and a O'Clock
the corridors of the Capitol we're alive with
moving humanity AS the out-of-town or
CARNATIONS reached here. they marched
quietly tc the places assigned to them for
forming the pageant. which was the Iarg-
est military demonstration that has graeed
an occasion OF this kind for years.