The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-14
STATE OFFICIALS
TAKE OATH
GOVERNOR SHAFROIH AND 9TH.
Err STATE OFFICERS BEGIN
NEW TERMS.
CEREMON|ESARES SIMPLE
CHIEF JUSTICE CAMPBELL AO.
MINISTER'S OATH: GOVERN
OR READS ADDRESS,.

Denver.-John Franklin Shafroth
began his second term as governor of
the state of Colorado at noon Tues
day with ceremonies of extreme sim
plicity. The brilliant decorations that
lave marked similar occasions in the
past, were absent.
At l2;27 o'clock Governor Shafroth
faced Chief Justice Campbell of the
Supreme Court and raised his right
hand. AS the chief justice began to
administer the oath of office a bat
terry of cameras clicked and the ex
plosion of a fIashlight caused the gov
crnor to jump.
Chief Justice Campbell asked the
governor if he would swear to sup
lort the constitution OF the state OF
Colorado and the constitution of the
United States.
As the words Il do" sounded from
the lips of the governor. an officer
of the national guard stationed In a
window raised his hand and cannon
on the campus roarcd the first of the
tw enty-one gun salute.
Message is Read.
The governor then read his in
augural address, after which the fol
lowing newly elected officers were
sworn into office: James +. Garri-
CUES, justice of the Supreme Court:
State Treasurer Roady kenehan. Sec
retary of State James b. Pearce, State
Auditor N. A. Leddy, Attorney Gener-
a. Benjamin Griffith, State Superin-
tendent of Public instruction Mrs.
Helen NJ. Wilson. Railroad Commits
sioner Sheridan 5. Kendall and State
Regents W. J. King and Miss Anna
Wolcott.
Both House and Senate held short
sessions and took recesses until noon.
when they assembled in joint session
in the chamber of the House of Rep
Iesentatiyes for the inaugural cere-
monies.
Long before that hour the chamber
was well filled with visitors. Guards
stood at the doors and admitted none
but those holding tickets. The wives
and daughters of the members of the
Legislature stood or sat beside them.
In the lobbies and the galleries were
the state house employs and others
who had been admitted by card.
At 12:12 O'Clock Sergeant-at-Arms
Henahen announced that the Senate
was about to enter. The senators
were given the first three rows.
Speaker McL.achland surrendered the
gavel to Senator William H Adams,
president pro TEN. of the Senate. who
h.. h.,
governor and other officers to the
chamber.
The officials and the members of
the Supreme Court had gathered in
the governors office. They marched
up to the house of representatives and
were given places on the speakers
platform.
Escorted Their Successors.
Attorney General Barnett, State
Treasurer William ]. Galligan and
Mrs. Katherine NJ. Cook, former state
superintendent of public instruction.
walked beside their successors in of
flee
Senator Adams announced the pro-
gram for the day and Chaplain Hyde
u
the state and the nation and prayed
that the newly elected officers might
be given the light of wisdom and for
bearance.
The decorations were very simple.
A few American flags, few flow
ers and ferns on the speakers table.
and that was all. After all the Off
ciaIS had heen sworn in they were
surrounded by their friends and con
graduated. The audience then dis
persed and a new administration had
dawned on Colorado.
Out on the lawn the officers of Bat
terry A were having their own troubles.
The guns were fired at intervals of
fifteen seconds except once, when
shell stuck in the cannon. Colonel
J B. Goodman, who had charge of
the battery, and General John Chase
worked over it until they We're able
to resume the firing. Meanwhile the
men in charge of the other cannon
were trying to do the firing for both.
During the lull man with spirited
horse drove up into the face of the
anon. The crowd that gathered
b, red him for his bravery" and
otherwise enjoyed the incident.
The firing of the guns drowned the
voice of Governor Shafroth in the
state house and parts of the beginning
of his inaugural address were lost.