The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-12
FORMAL CEREMONY

Rain Did Not Dash the Enthusiasm of
a Magnificent Crowd. An Ovation to
Governor Aycock Only EqualIed BY
the Cheers Which Greeted His Sue
cessor. The Day a Panorama of Bril-
liant Events.
The Governor of North Carolina
is Robert Bruce Glenn, of Forsyth
county; Charles b. Aycock, eX-Gov
ernor. is now a private citizen and
attorney-at-law of GoldsborO, where
he went yesterday afternoon.
Governor Glenn was inaugurated
yesterday at ten minutes of two
O'Clock, in the Academy of Music, in
the presence of the joint session of
the Legislature and great cOncourse
of people. He was sworn in by Chief
Justice Clark. His address, printed in
full on another page. met with gen
food for serious thought.
The day was marred by cold rain.
but the crowd was large and the cere-
monies impressive.
The people at the Union depot when
the special train bearing Governor
Glenn and his townspeople arrived.
constituted a seething mass of hu-
manity that filled the shed to over
flowing The train in nr1ati-
cally on time. 1t puffed into the sta
uon with consciousness of being the
bearer of big events. The people
swarmed slowly from the cars. There.
was rush on the part of waiting
thousands for the waiting train. \
band started to play. The delerium
was in the veins of the people. Men
and women stepped to the Tilt of the
music. Cheers rang through the
building. Excitement was III the air,
the excitement which is inseparable
from place and power the desire to
be next to and touch elbows with that
always novel curiosity. the man whom
the people have chosen for distinc-
tion.
The Winstonians swarmed off the
train. In their hands We're banners on
sticks which waved in the air bearing
the device of their Governors sadly
caricatured face. The military
marched up the board walk. officers
full of important commands. men
marching briskly to the step of the
tireless band A squad of old Civil
War veterans followed, Glenn banners
in their hands, grizzled, old, bent
Shouldered, the relic of a time that
brought history to bear with its glory
of defeat on the triumph of the pres
ent day.
Finally there was a flutter from the
steps, a bevy of women came down
holding their skirts. man or two with
solicitous hands on the elbows of the
figure of the hour and in the midst
the Governor, large, smiling eager
come to the day Of his life. the min
gied realization and anxiety mirrored
on his open featured face, grabbing
at the hundreds of out-stretched
hands. nodding here and there. in
haste and yet mindful of the crowd
The party was one which gave to
the ceremonial the good touch on
home life. 1t indicated the man apart
from the official The old mother
strangely young looking. with halo
OF grey curls under her black bonnet
Mrs. Glenn. smiling and happy, Miss
RcbeCca Glenn, new to the honorS
which her father has been acclimated
to. the Governors two brothers. Hon
Clement Manly and other close per-
sonal friends. In the midst of these
stood the next Governor of North
Carolina, half-a Dashed at the greeting
that surged about him. realizing on
the platform of depot the fullness
of the honors to which he had been
called.
The reception committee surged up.
the band played on, people shouted
cheers arose above the tumult. The
spirit of the occasion ran through
sober veins like red wine. The crowd
Jostled and pushed and showed. The
long platform was a sea of noddng
heads and hurrying forms. Somehow
human lane opened in the midst
Down il marched the military. the
band at its head; followed the citizens
of Winston with their flags, the old
veterans. the citizens committee, the
next Governor and his family. Some ge-
MUS remembered at the psychological
moment to play Dixie. The response
was that which the old tune always
brings. There was a holiday in the
air. The people remembered that they
were Southern born. that this was Il
fcee day, that their governor was a
man whose father had died on the
battlefield. The emotion of the scene
came out in the voices that camored
about the Governor. Hats went into
the air Men shouted in voices high
pitched above the human roar There
was a ciamor of patriotism revived in
old memories. of instinct long hidden,
of pride eXultant.
Down this lane walked the next
Governor. His was an earnest face.
Its roundness was tinged with "a Sc
riousnss that stayed consistently be-
hind the smile. He walked as one in
a dream. old friends grasped his hand
and missed the conscious greeting lie
WAS the Governor of the State and
the people were waiting him.
Outside the depot there were car