The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-13

/ dent. Jackson attributed TO the son.
/ John Quincy Adams. the scandslous
7 statements made about Rachel jackson
I during the campaign Of 1928 and did
/ not call on Adams. who left the White
house March g
+ There zas no Inauguration ball when
John Adams became president. His
wife was not present at the ceremony
/ because Of death n the family. The
I oath vas administered by Chief Jus
/ tice Oliver Ellsworth.
! Thomas Jefferson was the first presi-
( dent TO be inauguratsd in Washington
/ City. Tradition asserts that he rode
on horse back 10 the capitol and tied
I his horse To q nearby fence while he
/ took the oath. A better authenticated
/ story has il that he went on foot and
! was escorted by q company Of milit 4
artillery. One of Adams distastefui
| appointments had been that OF Chief
Justice Marshall who administered the
oath Besides these two. Jefferson and
| Marshall so strongly opposed to each
/ other was the new vice president.
Aaron Burr. who had come within one
/ vote Of receiving the presidency in the
/ vote taken in the house Of representa-
/ tives. If jefferson felt chagrn at the
| moment. his compensation during the
/ successful eight years Of his presidency
was ample. He could probably have
had the honor of third term. but de-
| clined. though he practically NAMED his
| successor, Madison. advising Monroe,
| who was also an aspiTant for the ONCE.
/ to wait
1 All of the presidents had followed the
! custom of wearing. so far as possible,
| clothes made in tbs country. John
| Adams on the eventful day appeared in
] Tsr-1-@ FnE = nh in he
] eyes Of the federaIists ostents tiously
simple. But it was left to James Madi-
/ son TO so dress IS to be described as
/ walking argument in favor Of Ameri-
/ can wool" At his first Inauguration in
/ IS09 he wore a coat made on the farm
/ Of Colonel Humphreys. The rest Of his
! costume vas made of h0mespun from
/ the farm Of Chancellor Livingston The
/ wool all came from American sheep.
/ Of Washington
/ The ceremony Of taking the oath took
place in the house OF representatives,
/ which was crowded Dolly Madison
| was a charming hostess at the inau-
/ guration bail. the first since the time
James Monroe having needed the ad-
/ vice Of the father Of his party, received
/ his reward In 1917. The oath was ad-
/ ministsred to him on platform under
/ the unfinished poFtieo OF the capitol.
! This place had been chosen to end the
| vrangle over seats At his second in
/ suguration the weather was so bad the
exercises had to be held inside.
/ John Quincy Adams. chosen by the
| house of representative TO be presi-
/ dent because no candidate had received
a majority Of the electoral votes. was
| q disappointed man. He wanted the
| presidency as the gift Of the people
| In his diary he wrote: The year has
/ been the most momentOus Of those that
/ have passed over my head. inasmuch
as it has witnessed my elevation, at
/ the age Of IS. to the chief magistracy
l of my country, to the summit of Iaud-
able or at least bIameless worldly am
bition, not, however, in a manner sat
/ isfactoTy 10 pride or to just desire; not
/ by the unequivocsl sufTages Of a ma
jority Of the people; with perhaps two
/ thirds of the whole people adverse to
/ the actual result"
/ Mr.. Adams changed the programme
/ of his predecessors by reading his in
/ augurai address before the oath was
/ administered. He was escorted to the
/ capitol by bodyguard Of citizens.
l Among those who congratulated him
/ was General Andrew jackson. who had
| received a majority OF the popular vote
| and a plurality Of the votes cast in the
/ electoral college. This friendly greet
/ ing Is the last recorded courtesy that
/ passed between the two, and. as has
| been said. Adams was not present at
| the inauguration of Jackson in 1929.
! Though Adams absented himself. the
/ plain people. who felt that with the
election of Jackson they had come into
/ their own, did not. The capitol had
never seen such crowds as came to the
Inauguration Of this popular idol I'm
1923 F'rontieTsmen. backwoodsmen.
Indian fighters crowded so denseIy
around the capitol that to keep them
/ out Of the eastern portieo where the
oath was administered a Ship-s cable
had TO be used. The mob poured into
the White House. Some climbed on
/ tHe satin-covered chairs. ScrambIine
to help themselves. they broke china
and glassware. To protect the presi-
dent from the crush. men linked arms
Like Washington and Jefferson. Jack
son left the Office amid the same en-
thusiasm which attended his coming.
Like Jefferson, he named his success
scr. Martin Van Buren,.
March 4. 1884 these two. jackson and
Van Buren,, rode together from the
White House 10 the capitol in a phae-
ton made from oak timbers taken from
the old frigate Constitution, gift from
New York Democrats to the retiring
president. As John Adams had been
second in the eyes Of the multitude at
his own inauguration because of the
esteem felt for Washington, so Van
Buren was second to Jackson. But
Van Buren, accepted the situation more
gracefully than had Adams He re-
turned from the Inauguration. at which
ChleI justice fancy administered the
oath, to his own residence. fnsisffrg
that Jackson should remain until bis
departure for Tennessee
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When General William II. Harrison
was inaugursted in 1871 his admirers
presented carriage to him. hut he