The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-04-08
EXTREMELY BAD
WEATHER THE RULE
1t Generally Storms In Washington on
Inauguration Day.

OF the statement that President
Taft is the first Executive to take
the oath OF Office and deliver his
inaugural address inside the Capt.
tol since Andrew Jackson, a care
tul examination of the records has
been made and the assertion is
shown to have been accurate.
While it is true that Mr.. Taft is
the first President to have been
inaugurated inside of the Capitol
in Is years, Andrew Jackson was
not sworn into office in the Senate
Chamber. Jackson took the oath
of Office and delivered his second
inaugural address in the old hall
of the House of Representatives,
which is now known as Statuary
Hall. He did not take the oath
in the old Senate Chamber, which
is now the United States Supreme
Court Building.
President Taft is therefore the
first Of the nations Chief Execu-
tives to take the oath in the new
Senate Chamber, which since De-
Cember, 1859, has been used for
the sittings of the upper branch of
Congress.
Most of the inaugurations since
JaCkson's have enjoyed" inclem-
ent weather.
The first two Presidents were in
augurated outside of Washington,
and Thomas Jefferson was the first
to be indicted into Office in the
new capital city. George Wash
ington took the oath of office on
Thursday, April 80, 1889, at Fed
eral Hall, Nassau and Wall streets,
New York. This building is now
the United States Subtreasury, and
the spot where Washington stood
is marked with a heroic bronze
statue of the first President by 7.
Q. A. Ward. Washington took
the oath and delivered his second
inaugural address Monday, March
4, 1898, in the Senate chamber at
Congress Hall, Philadelphia. John
Adams was sworn in and deliver
ed his inaugural address on Satur-
day, March I, 1897, in Congress
Hall, Philadelphia.
Then the capital was permanent
ly established at Washington and
Jefferson was inaugurated there.
The Capitol was only partially
completed, there was no parade
and the author of the Declaration
OF Independence rode on horseback
to the Capitol to be sworn in in
the hall of the old House of Rep
resentatives. A few friends &C
companied him to and from the
building, He took the oath We'd
nesday, March 4, 1901. The sec
ond inaugural of Jefferson, on
Monday, March +, 1905, was also
conducted quietly and without
any parade, the oath being admin
istered and the inaugural address
delivered in the hall of the House.
There has been some comment
over the fact that President Roose-
yelt did not return to the White
House with his successor, but went
direct from the Capitol to his
train. AS early as the first in
augural of Jefferson, in 1901, John
Adams established the precedent,
not subsequently followed, OF not
even attending the Inauguration
OF his successor. He absented
himself altogether from the cere-
monies.
James Madison toak the oath of
Office and delivered his inaugural
address in the hall of the House
on Saturday, March 4, 1900. He
took the oath and delivered his
second inaugural on Thursday,
March 4, 1873, in the same cham
Der. James Monroe was inaugural.
ed Tuesday, March 4, 1917, in the
hall of the old House, and on Mon
day, March S, 1921, he delivered
his second inaugural in the same
place. John Quincy Adams was
'naugurated March 4, 1925, the
first of the Presidents to step into
Office on a Friday, taking the oath