Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-24
GOVERNOR NOEL
INAUGURATED
SIMPLICITY KEYNOTE OF THE
OCCASION.
WITNESSED BY Big CROWD
Thousands Gather to See the Oath
of Office Administered-Briefest
Address on Record, Lasting Only
Fifteen Minutes.

Jackson, Miss.-Visitors from all
parts of the commonwealth gathered
to witness the Inauguration of Gov
ernor-elect Edmond +. Noel, which
took place on the steps of the capt.
tol at the noon hour Tuesday. All
railroads in the state made reduced
rates for the occasion, special trains
were run over the several roads, and
nearly fifteen thousand people saw
the new governor take the oath of
office.
Jackson was in gala attire for the
occasion. The route of the inaugural
parade, from the union depot up Cap
itol street to State, thence on North
State to Mississippi, and on Missis-
sippi to the capitol grounds, had been
gaily decorated, and the pageant was
an imposing one. Seventeen military
companies, constituting the two regi-
ments of the Mississippi National
Guard, took part in the event. In
addition the student bodies of several
colleges, notably Mississippi College
at Clinton, was assigned to positions
in the line of march. Several mu-
nicipal organizations have been en-
gagged and a number of civic bodies
also turned out to do honor to the
new governor.
Governor-elect and Mrs. Noel, ac-
companied by large party of their
friends and neighbors from Loving
ton and Holmes county, reached
Jackson on special train Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock, and were met
at the union station by the reception
committee headed by Chairman r.
Ii. Henry, and the joint Legislative
committee. All state officials and the
distinguished guests assembled at the
union station at that hour, and the
procession moved from that point in
the following order:
Mounted Police, Board of Trade
Band, Fire Department, Military or
CARNATIONS, civic bodies, state and
city officials in carriages.
The last carriage in the procession
was occupied by Governor-elect Noel
Governor James X. Vardaman, Lieut.
Governor Luther Manship, and Chief
Justice A. II. Whitfield.
Ii took about an hour to cover
the line of march. Tee military or
CARNATIONS, after reaching the capt.
toll grounds, were placed in battalion
formation to the right and left of
the main entrance, the wide walks
being reserved for the populace. A
governors saulte was fired by the
Warren Light Artillery as the new
governor assembled the steps Of the
capitol.
Bishop Charles B. Galloway, of the
Methodist church, delivered the OPP
ening prayer, after which Governor
Noel read his inaugural address, last
ing not more than fifteen minutes.
The inaugural address was perhaps
the briefest ever spoken by a gov
ernor of Mississippi. 1t is the inten-
tion of the new chief executive to
communicate his views on public
questions to the legislature in the
form Of special message. After the
address the oath of office was adj
ministered by Chief Justice Whit
field, of the supreme court, which
brought the ceremony to a close.
Tuesday night at 8 o'clock recep-
ton was held at the executive offices
to which the public was cordially in
vited. This was followed by the in
augural ball at the Coliseum build
ing, which was also be a public
event. Gov. Noel's address was as
follows:
Legislators, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The choice of Mississippians brings
me today from private life, in an
interior town, to this spot, to be
clothed with the highest honor their
suffrage can bestow. For their gen.
erous confidence l am deeply CRATE,
ful-so very grateful that even its
faint expression exhausts my COM
mani of words. Every energy and
effort, mental and physical, l shall
exert to the utmost to demonstrate
my profound and lasting apprecia-
ton, to bring to our people their
full share of the blessings of Devine
Providence and to protect them from
the forces of adversely. Experience
in other office tells me that the du,
ties | am now to assume are so try
ing and difficult that we shah face
disaster whenever l fail to receive
the cordial support of our patriotic
citizenship and the cheerful eo-opera-
ton of my co-workers in the public
service. Upon this support, essen
MI