The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT is
IkAUGURATeO AS PRESIDENT
RoOSEvFLTS SUCCESSOR TAKES THE OATH OF
OFFICE AMID THE PLAUDITS OF
COUNTLESS THOUSANDS
INAUGURAL COMPOSED OF FOURTEEN GOVERNORS The
MILITARY, PRIVATE AND THE
JOLLY
JOLLY rARs.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March Al
the presence of the assembled thou
sands. William Howard Taft was to
day iraugurated President of the Uni
ted States.
| The oath OF Office was admins
! tered by the chief Justice Of the
Supreme Court. Mr.. Taft reverently
kissing the ancient government Bible
which he hal selected for that pur
pose.
The ceremonies were similar to
those which have indicted into the
White House the long list of Mr.
''aft's predecessors. There was the
inaugural parade, bigger than ever,
the blare of trumpets, the playing OF
lands, the cheering and huzzaing, and
the inaugural speech. The sun smiled
upon the regal spectacle and there
was enthusiasm oozing from every
one of the two hundreds thousand Wis.
TORS at the national capital
After the ceremonies had been coni
Ileted Mr.. aft entered a carr age
and was driven to the White House,
here for the Aext four years he Till
BE- at hone.
A secondary figure in the days
proceedings was Vice President Jane,
SchcolcratL Sherman, who also took
tile cath 70 support the constitution If
tire | States.
Prcs.iCui Roosevelt came in 70. his
share Of e1Cention and the retiring
executive was one of the central fig
ures . IN day
The governors of fourteen states
had places in the parade Those gov
ernors are Hughes of New York, Har-
mon of Ohio, Hadley of Missouri, De-
neen of Illinois, Prouty of Vermont,
Wilson of Kentucky, Carey of Iowa,
Pennewell of Delaware, Quinby of
New Hampshire, Sanders of Louis
lana, Stewart of Pennsylvania and
Noel of Mississippi.
EX Governor Herrick of Ohio. who
is tall and handsome, was one of the
figures in town. Ex-Gov-
ernnr Timothy L. Woodruff of New
York was another man who attracted
Nearly all the members of
the republican national committee, were
in town, among them Brooker of Con-
necticutt, Ex-Governor Murphy of New
Jersey, Rosewater of Nebraska, Nc
Cormick of Washington, Barker of AL
ALBANIA, Clayton of Arkansas Blum of
Georgia, Kellog of Minnesota, Nagel
Of Missouri, who is to be secretary of
commerce and labor; Ward of New
York, Duncan of North Carolina, Vo-
rvs of Ohio, Lyon of Texas, and those
members of the committee who are
IN Congress or hold Office in Washing /
ION under the federal government All
II the officers of the national commit |
zee are here also VIM. Hayward. of |
Nebraska City, Neb., and Frederick |
W. Upham of Chicago, the secretary
Ind assistant treasurer of the commit |
zee, came to Washington with their |
wives in a private car in which they |
ire living. George r. Sheldon of New |
FORK, treasurer of the national COM
nittee, and Victor L. Mason, of Pas
aic, n j., the assistant secretary, got
n Wednesday. Most of the best
,nown men of the Republican party
re spending good part of their time
t the New Willard.
According to the hotel people this
5 the biggest Inauguration crowd in
Washington since Grover Cleveland
ecame president the second time. 1t
ertainly looks it from the appearance
+ the hotel Hobbies. Many people of
Consequence who came here expecting
D secure good quarters at prominent
otels have been obliged to obtain
Ooms in private houses.
Everywhere you go you encounter
ale men. They are here in force to
ee one of their number become presi- I
ent. Members Of the class of '7S, I
18th which the President-elect was s
raduated, are most in evidence. They |
ave headquarters in the Union Trust
lilding, at Fifteenth and H streets, I
here the President-elect and Chair |
IAN Hitchcock have Offices also and I
ave swung to the breezes an enor. I
GUS blue banner containing the word /
Yale Mr.. Taft's classmates, with t
embers of their families, had Sec {
on Of the inaugural stand at the cap c
Of reserved for them, and were pro- g
ded with seats on the reviewing c
and in front of the White House. Il
Nearly all of the relatives of the c
'esident-elect and Mrs. Taft are in e
ashington. They form big contin. y