The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-15
Procession Escorting Chief Passes Through Thousands of Alabam- ians Gathered to Do Him Honor.
Official Rises in Carriage to Ac- knowledge PIaudits of Throngs That Pack Street Curbs.
Line of March Takes Head of Commonwealth by Many Monu- rlnents of Historic Past.

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 Hon. Braxton Bragg Comer stood in flood of the days sunlight and swore to uphold the Constitution of the United states and the constitu- tion of the State of Alabama. and to faithfully administer the laws of the State.
 And thus. he became Governor of the State of Alabama. while thousands and thousands of his fellow citizens watch ed the simple ceremony and appiauded the utterances of the man they had selected for the next Governor of Ala hama.
 No Governor that the state of Ala bAma has ever had was escorted to the historic Capitol bys such 2 magnificent parade as that which accompanied Gov ernor B. Conner to take his oath of oflce.
 Jefferson Davis had no such escort when he rode to the Capitol to be sworn in as President of the Confederate States. Even the beginning of the great fratricidal struggle was not witt messed by any such gathering as that which stood in the sunlight and saw Dexter Avenue more than filled, from the Capitol to z >drt Square. with arm cd troops, fiuttering flags and march, ing bands.
 Outdoes Roosevelt Crowd.
 The crowd which greeted President Roosevelt some fifteen months ago might have been as large, but it was no larger. The President of the United states was accompanied by an impress i've parade, but his escort was small in comparison to that which marched yes terday behind the carriage that con tained Governor W. D. Jelks and the Governor-eiect Hon. B. B. Conner.
 From Taliapoosa Street to the Cap jtof the Governor-elects carriage drove between two solid walls of humanity. Standing erect in his carriage he doned his silk hat and waved 1t to those who cheered and those who stood In win dows and waved their handkerchiefs at him. Perhaps more than 40.0e0 peo- pie saw him and the magnificent escort of troops.
 The great crowd was never together in one place. At the Capitol the throng was limited, It was limited by the sound of the voice of the new Cover nor in the delivery of his inaugural ad- dress. The space in which his voice carried was packed to the uttermost with humanity But no mans voice would have carried to all who wished to draw near and heaF the inaugural address. So the outskirts of the crowds kept moving, as they could not hear but the body of the crowd push ed near the temporary stand in front of the Capitol portico and heard the earnest, If not impassioned, utterances of the man who Is to be Governor of Alabama for the next four years
 When the march up the)hil1 had been completed, when the shouting had died, when the flags were at rest and the bands were silent, the assembled thous- ands saw the simple ceremony which transferred the administration of the laws of Alabama from William Dorsey Jelks to Rrgxton Bragg Conner.
 Thr0nRs Watch Ceremony.
 They saw the new Governor present. ed to the throng by the old Governor
 
 ineugura1 address to the crowd, but particularly to the members of the Ala bama Legislature assembled on the stand on which the exercises were held
 They saw the new Governor raise his hand and swear the oath the State of Alabama requires of it's incoming officers; that he will faithfully admin ister the laws of the State and that he will support the Constitution of the State of Alabam and of the United States They saw General R. F. Lig on, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State, read slowly over to him that oath. and they saw the new Governor lay his hand upon the great old Blbie that belongs to the State of Alabama
 Then the cannon boomed One Gov ernor had stepped down and out A new Governor had stepped up and Tn. Again the cannon boomed. and still again. Seventeen times the sound of the artillery floated over the city, for