The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-03-09
ROOSEVELT INAUGURATED.


bLNc vi bdnuS anu NdtcHFu the
marchers pass in parade; banners
have futtered from the roofs and
festooDs Of bunting, giving gala-day
color TO the mile stretch OF Pennsyl-
v ria avenue from the White House
to the Capitol; the people througed
the streets along and adjacent to the
line Of march and cheered even when
they could not see or know for what
they cheered-all this the people of
Washington are familiar Without
they have never before felt the pecu-
liar influence which gave to this ill.,
auguration the air of something new
the air Of Ii beginning
In the whole thing there was and
indefinite sense of the symbClical.
The parade was a great panorama of
history, suggestive rather than real,
with the figure OF Roosevelt constant
ly on the screen. Even the decora-
lions Of the city, the stands and the
general physica! arrangements were
in harmony with this idea. The dee
oratiOns Of private buildings along
r. the avenue from the White House to
the Capitol were under the direction
OF the committee, kept as far as pos
sible within a single scheme of color
and design, giving the impression of
its having been done ~ one hand un-
der the direction OF central head,
instead of being guided by the hap
hazard freedom of individual taste.
The immense bamboo posts erected
about the Presidents reviewing
stand werp the standards of new
race added to our empire and symbol
zeal of the extension of our power into
the Orient. Plants from Hawaii and
Porto Rico and flowers of the Philip
pines served in the decoration of the
Pension Office for the ball. The plas-
ter figures brought from the Worlds
Fair and placed along the plaza in
front of the White House were sug-
gestive of expansion and growth of
natioualism-an orderly bringing to-
gether of past and present with It
prophecy of the future. In every
thing there was suggestion of sense
power associated with "A pride of the
rugged beginnings out of which that
power is bein" wrought.
Nhn roinf1ra IF DOuor ND
ton of its origin and its growth was
carried out in the ride of the Presi-
dent to the Capitol, in his inaugural
address, i'll the parade and in the
triumphal magnilicence of the ball
with which the ceremonies were con-
Guided D..
For more than an hour before the
President left the White House on
his way to the Capitol the driveway
of Pennsylvania avenue was cleared
Of all traffic, being kept free of street
cars, vehicles and even of pedestrians.
When at 1890 O'Clock, the carriage of
the President and the committee of
Congress whirled out from the White
House attended by the picked COM
pany of Rough Riders, the New York
Squadron. the Civil War veterans
and the veterans of the Spanish War
falling into line, Lieutenant General
Chaffee and his staff, brilliant in gold
braid and the flash of sabers, wheeled
to the head of the column.
Down the broad avenue, stretching
free from all obstruction to the view
from the Treasury Building to the
Capitol, this small company, with its
picturesque contrast of composition,
passed between two great walls of
cheering spectators SO denselv crowd
ed together that a cavalry charge
could rot have broken through the
mass of people beyond the curb on
either side.
This escort of the President to the
Capitol was civil, with a military
head, but it represented the militant
spirit of our civil life in which Presi-
dent Roosevelt takes especial pride.
Veterans of a war long since past,
veterans of war so recent that its
private soldiers are still heroes and
veterans of both war and plains,
whose restless spirit and reckless dar-
ing erdeared them to the heart of.the
colonel of Rough Rider, now Presi-
dent, represented the soldier equally
in the citizen, while at the head of the
column the dignity, discipline, gold
lace and authority of military power
were represented by the General and
staff.
This ride to the Capitol was no part
of the parade proper and the escort
of honor was as much for safety as for
dignity and display, the early appear
ance of the President at the Senate
being for the purpose of acting on the
belated bills, which, after having been
passed by the two houses of Congress
during the last hours of the session,
would fail for lack OF time for EIecu-
tive examination and signature if the
President were not close at hand for
that purpose.