Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-03-10
ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS
ARE iNAUGURATED.
Choice of the People Indicted into
Office Amid Much Pomp and

! The most brilliant and imposing in
auguration which the citizens OF
Washington have ever prepared has
passed into the history of the repub-
lie. and Theodore Roosevelt and
Charles Warren Fairbanks have been
Installed as president and vice presi-
dent of the United States for the next
four years.
1t was the first national Inaugural
ton since the civil war The south
sent up its warriors and it's state of
hcials. Men who fought each other
for years under different flags; men
who fought together in the war with
Spain under one flag; executive Of
ficers of the states who upheld the
stars and bars, and those who stood
for the flag of the Union. marched to-
gether in review before their common
president, soldier Of the republic.
Fully 100000 visitors gazed with
wonder and enthusiasm at the dis
trict's handiwork for honoring its
president.
The parade was the most magnifi-
cent ever known. The Grand Army
of the Republic, as is it's habit, insist
ed on acting as the presidents escort,
and the presidents rate of progress
to the capitol was reduced to the pa
thetic pace of men who were fast ap-
preaching the scripture limit of life.
But the delay had its compensations.
Many thousands had opportunity to
see and greet the president as his cor
tege slowly passed along the mile
from the White House to Capitol hill,
where congress was concluding its Ia
bors.
The oath of Office was administered
to President Roosevelt by Chief JUS
tice Fuller, and after taking the oath
the president delivered his inaugural
address, which surprised his hearers
by its brevity.
After the conclusion of the address,
the president, accompanied by his
escort and followed by troops and
civilian paraders, started for the White
House. 1t was the most perfect col
umn that ever marched in an inaug-
ural parade, though it's numbers were
less. General Chaffee had insisted
that a brigade of the national guard
from each state should be the maxi
mum representation. The Ninth cav
airy, that splendid colored regiment,
received marked attention The
crowds went wild over the section OF
rough riders. The scouts and the
Porto Rico battalion excited intense
The brigade of cadet battal-
ions from many states, organized by
General Chaffee, attracted universal
attention and received unbounded ap-
plause. The civic grand division OF
eight brigades in three divisions,
made up of over fifty organizations,
was in every respect better organ
lied than ever before
Turning from the pageant of the
day, the doubled population of the
city disposed itself for the three i'm
posing spectacles of the night, the
ball; the fireworks on the white lot,
and the dazzling street decorations.
In the presence of as many of his fell
low citizens as could be crowded into
the senate chamber, Charles Warren
Fairbanks was at high noon indicted
Into the office of vice-president of the
United States. The ceremony was
quickly followed by the final adjourn
ment of the senate of the Fifty-eighth |
congress, the beginning Of a special
session, an address by the vice presi- |
lent and the swearing into Office of al |
most third of the membership Of |
he senate. All these official acts took
place in the chamber just before the
of the president, and
we're In reality, while themselves OF
great import, the prelude Of the more
event.