The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-04

WASdlNGION, u. c., March, A.
The ceremonies which make Theodore
Roosevelt of New York, president of
the United States for the next four
years were performed today with all
the dignity and splendor befitting such
an occasion. half-hour earlier in
the day Charles Warren Fairbanks of
Indiana was inducted into the office
pie thronged the open space and the
streets to the east front of the capitol
where, after receiving the oath from
Chief Justice Fuller of the supreme
court, President Roosevelt delivered
his inaugural address. AS the last
syllable fell from the presidents lips
and he stepped from the rostrum, 1OO,-
600 voices rose in a prodigious note of
applause.
The official hour for the commence
ment of the exercises was 10 O'Clock,
at which time the president left the
White House for the capitol, accom-
panied by the congressional commit
tee of arrangements, and escorted by
the members of the department of the
Potomac, G. A. R., and a detachment
of the United Spanish War Veterans.
Long before this the streets were filed
with what appeared to be the whole
of the population of Washington. To
the many hundreds of the local popu-
lation We're added many thousands of
visitors who came in on excursion
trains last night and this morning.
The inaugural ceremonies proper
were of the same simple and impress
sivs character that have marked such
events since the birth of the nation
Arriving at the capitol the president
was taken to the presidents room un-
til all was ready in the senate cham
Der. Promptly at 1900 o'clock the
president, escorted by the congression-
al committee and the vice-president-
elect, who was escorted by Rep
resentative Crumpacker of Indiana,
emerged into the senate chamber. The
hall was filled with a distinguished as
semblage that included members of
the diplomatic corps, senators and rep
resentatives, judges of the United
States supreme court and a multiple
city of others who had the floor priv
ilege for the day. In the galleries
were seated several hundred persons
mostly the wives and daughters of the
dignitaries who filled the lower floor.
The supreme court judges took their
places at II o'clock and Immediate
ly afterward the president took his
seat in front of the desk of the presi-
dent of the senate. President of the
Senate Frye, declared the senate of
the fifty-eighth congress adjourned,
administered the oath of office to Vice
President Fairbanks and handed the
gavel over to him. The vice president
made a short inaugural address as fol-
lows:
Fairbanks Address.
Il enter upon the discharge of the
duties of the position to which 1 have
been called by my countrymen, with
grateful appreciation of the high
honor and deep sense of it's respon-
sibilitie. 1 have enjoyed the privilege
of serving with you here for eight
years. During that period we have
been engaged in the consideration of
many domestic questions of vast i'm
portance and with foreign problems
unusually far reaching in significance.
We submit what we have done to the
impartial judgment of history. We to-
day witness the majestic spectacle of
the peaceful, orderly beginning of an
administration of nationai affairs un-
der the laws of self governed people.
We pray that divine favor may attend
and peace, progress, justice and honor
may abide with our country and with
our countrymen."
Then the procession moved to the
east front of the capitol, where, on the
stand prepared, President Roosevelt
took the oath of office, administered
by Chief Justice Fuller, and then pro-
ceeded to deliver his inaugural ad-
dress.
Presidents Inaugural.
President Roosevelt spoke as fol-
lows:
my Fellow Citizens:
mo people on earth have more cause
to be thankful than ours, and this is
said reverently, in no spirit of boast
fulness in our own strength, but with
gratitude to the Giver of Good, who
has blessed us with the conditions
which have enabled us to achieve so
large a measure of well-being and of
happiness. To us as a people it has
been granted to lay the foundations of
our national life in a new continent.
We are the heirs of the ages, and yet
we have had to pay few of the pen
alties which in old countries are ex-
acted by the dead hand of a by-gone
civilization. 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 ;