The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-01-27

Hon. Ben. w. Hooper, of Newport,
Cooke County, was to-day inaugurated
Governor of Tennessee. He took the
oath of office in the Rynlan Auditori-
UNI as successor to Hon. Malcolm r,
Patterson, of Memphis, who concluded
his second term to-day.
" The inaugural ceremonies were sim
pie but impressive, and were held in
the presence of distinguished assem-
bly,, representing the highest official
life, the culture, the beauty, the best
citizenship of the Volunteer State.
For the first time in Twenty-eight
years Tennessee has Republican in
the Chief Executives chair. Hon.
Alvin Hawkins of Carroll County was
the last Republican elected Governor
of the state. He served from 1881 to
1883 The present Republican Gov
ernor, was like Gov. Hawkins, elected
as a result of division in the Demo
cratic ranks.
In retiring from office Gov M. R.
Patterson reiterated his belief in the
policies for which Ire has stood and
wished for the incoming alministra-
ton the highest and best public serv-
ice possible.
The address was brief and delivered
in Gov. Patterson's usual forceful
manner. He said:
Gentlemen of the Senate and
House of Representatives, Ladies and
Gentlemen: For the third time since
the civil war, and the first in more
than a quarter of century, the Office
of Chief Magistrate of this common
wealth passed from Democratic to Re
publican control.
"Neither the time nor the occasion
is seasonable to discuss the causes
which have brought about this change
and the new direction in our affairs
which it involves, but all of us who
are right-minded Americans and patri
otto Tennesseans, for whom the pub
lie good has direct appeal and rea
meaning, will wish the new admins
tration the highest and best public
service it may be able to give oul
people. For four years beset will
difficulties of which | have been keen
ly and painfully conscious, at a time
when passion was afame and reason
often obscured, | have tried to per
form duties which could have beef
better done, had it been my 10
to have served the state in an ordina
ry and calmer period, and my publ
acts whether for good or i'll are nov
a. part of the history of Tennessee.
stood by His Policies.
81 stood for them then, | stand TO
them now, and will In the time t
come. AS the hour arrives in my lif
when | can no longer be charged b.
the censorious with motives whic
have never actuated me moment i
my career, | may say to the peopl
whose peace welfare and liberties
sought to preserve, that if | had t
live over again the stirring scene
through which we have passed,
would be to assert again those pol
cies which | believed We're not onl
best but natural and inherent in on
scheme of government, and to resls
again, with all my power, those whlc
have encroached upon the rights
the citizen, and brought so much {
bitterness and strife without any re-
ompense whatsoever, My idea of tn
relation of government to the peopl
was so clear to my mind that 1t wa
difficult to understand why it was nj
accepted by all, for it is the univers;
experience of mankind that grev1or
and intolerable wrongs have AWAY
followed coercive restrictive law
which run counter to the popular vii
and this truth will soon stand reveale
to those who have been misled, jul
ais distorted shapes and the illusion
of the senses vanish when objects a
pear in true proportion before the u
sobstructed vision.