The Washington times., 1905-03-04

TO AND FROM
THE CAPITOL


Inaugurated with all the pomp ana
ceremony which patriotic people
delight to shower upon the Chief
Magistrate Of their choice, a new
President sits in the White House to-
day.
Acclaimed by thousands upon thou
| sands OF enthusiastic felIow-country-
| men, he stood IN the shadow Of the
great white dome OF the Capitol and
took the solemn oath Of office TO
execute faithfully the duties laid upon
him by the Constitution and TO pre-
serve. protect, and defend that great
/ instrument which Is the guarantee
OF the rights and liberties Of eighty
millions OF people.
Escorted by chosen groups Of his
-countFymen he passed down
a long lane aanked by other cheering
thousands, in a multitude which was
countless, from the legislative seat
OF Government to the executive home
VI tHs nation Qead.
| There he saw pass in review still
other patriotic thousands, who hon
ored him not as king and despot, IN
erInging serviIity, but as their fellow
citizen who had won their su1frages
by both words and deeds: who having
had fall upon his shoulders the unex-
pected burdens Of supreme rule had
responded IN such manner as to win
their renewed confidence: who stood
before the country not as a sovereign.
I but as a man OF the people, sympa-
thizing in their sorrows and sharing
their enjoyment Of material prog
perity.
To Serve the People.
| Publicly installed, In his own right
Theodore Roosevelt became today the
President of the United States. In
the broad experience OF administer
Ing the countTy's affairs for three and
half years, he has executed a trust
which came to him by no human
/ decree.
Today he has entered upon the new
career which the American people
have planned for him. Who can
| deny, IN the light of recent events
political, that, hardening to the peo-
pies call for relief from economic op-
preston, new President sits in the
White House, ready to exercise IN
their behalf all his talents and ener-
giles unreservedly. unequivoeaI1y. and
with absolute impartiality.
In his inaugural address the Presi-
dent speaks TO his fellow-citizens.
He comes to them as an experienced
statesman. No longer is he the chance
occupant of the Executive chair. He
is the new President, chosen for his
qualities, his professions, his accom-
plishments, and inaugurated today for
the full constitutional term of the
American Chief Magistrate:
Personality the Msinsp. ing.
It was the Presidents day. No
other thought in any mind could pre-
vent this prompt realization of what
all the elamor and crowd and con-
cussion of one sort and another really
meant Some enthusiasm there al
ways is for any occasion; much en-
thusiasm IS stirred whenever z flag is
waved, no matter what the cause; but
to explain the Overwhelming tide of
popular enthusiasm which greeted the
new President wherever his name
was mentioned by tongue or craven
by pen IN the National Capital today
is but to repeat the single sentence:
1T was the Presidents day"
The Roosevelt personality was the
handspring, lacking which all the
most elaborate mechanisms for pro
ducing enthusiasm would have proved
woefully defective and insufficient. It
was the personality which aceustoms
itself TO conditions and develops them;
which attacks abuses and corrects
them; which hears opposing views
and assimilates them; which gathers