The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-03-09
PRESIDENT ROOSEvELT'S
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Says Weak Need Not Fear Nor Strong
Presume.
FAIRBANKS ADDRESS BRIEF.
Impressive Scene In Senate When
Viee-President Took The Oath OF
Office - Thousands Cheered Mr..
ROosevelts Address.

Washington, March 4.-President
Roosevelt took the oath of office and
delivered his inaugural address in the
presence of between $4,000 and 10000
persons at the east front of the Cap
itol today.
Immediately after the inauguration
OF the Vice President and the swear
ing in of the new Senators the dis
tnguished guests marched in pro-
cession from the Senate chamber to
the inaugural stand, on the east front
of the Capitol.
The President was greeted with a
great demonstration of applause
when he made his appearance on the
stand at 40 O'Clock Mr.. Roosevelt
and members of che Congressional
Committee went to the rostrum, to-
ward which all Of the aisles sloped
and converged Several minutes
elapsed before the oath was admins
tered and, the wind being too brisk
for Chief Justice Fuller, he motioued
to his negro factotum, who stepped
on the rostrum with the overcoat of
the Chief Justice.
Ten thousand distinguished guests,
representing Congress, the Judiciary,
the diplomatic corps, officials and
high officers Of the army and the navy
and many others prominent in social
life. were on the stand, which stretch
ed from the rostrum where the Presi-
dent stood back to the walls of the
old center portion of the building on
which rests the mighty dome. The
windows of the Capitol, the porticos,
balconies, roof, and even projections
of the dome were occupied by hun
dreds of persons eager for a vantage
point from which to witness the i'm
pressive scene. More than 10000 per-
sons were massed upon the plaza of
the Capitol. Towar dthe Library of
Congress and far away upon the roofs
OF buildings several thousand feet
distant a number of persons looked
down upon this panorama of crowd
ing humanity.
Between the general public and the
distinguished array of jurists, states
men, diplomats ana legislators upon
the stand was an imposing display of
the military, including the mounted
squadron and the Rongh Riders and
the cadets and midshipmen of West
Point and Annapolis. Beyond them
was an open space fringed with a
Gordon of mounted policemen and
military officers, which held back the
crowd until the President stepped to
the front to deliver his address.
The oath was administered at
O'Clock by Chief Justice Fuller, who
wore his OYercOat and black velvet
skull cap. The ceremony was simple,
but impressive, and Mr.. Roosevelt
spoke the oath very deliberately and
determinedly, emphasizing each
word and laying special stress upon
the word Constitution
inaugural, asing fewer gestures than
usual and speaking slowly and DELHI
erately. He began by turning his
back on the crowd and addressing his
preliminary remarks to the distin-
guished gathering on the stand.
Turning, he walked eight feet to the
balustrade and leaning over it en-
deaYored to throw his voice across
the military Gordon to the people be-
You'd. He alternated by addressing
in turn those on the stand and those
in the crowd: Every time he turned
toward the latter throng he faced q
Photographic fort, which had been
temporarily erected in front of the
statue OF Washington and from which
scores of cameras, great and small,
were clicked under the auspices of
the illustrated journals and maya,
zines.
Mr.. Roosevelt said:
My FeUo2O Citizens: No people on
earth, have more cause to be thankful
than ours, and this is said reverently
and in no spirit of boastfulness in our
own strength, but with gratitude to
the Oliver of Good, who has blessed
us with the conditions which have
enabled us to achieve so large meas
ure of well-being and of happiness.
ITO us as people it has been grant
ed to lay the foundations of our ma
tional life in a new continent. We
are the heirs of the ages, and yet we
have had to pay few of the penalties
which in old countries are exacted by
the dead hand of bygone civiliza-
ton. We have not been obliged to
fight for our existence against ANY
alien race, and yet our life has called
for the vigor and effort without
which the manlier and harder virtues
wither away.
Under such conditions it would be
our own fault if we failed, and the
success which we have had in the