The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-12-27
MARCH 4 WILL
SEE BIG PARADE
Volume Of Inaugural Concourse
to Break Record.
ORGANIZATIONS ASK PLACES
Civic and Military Clubs from All
Over Country Anxious to Take Part
In Pageant-WiII Ask Congress for
Pension Building for Ball and corr
doris of Others to House Troops.

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Washington, Dec. 26.-Now that
the committee that is to have charge
OF the Inauguration of Woodrow vii.
son as president has been made I'D,
plans are being worked out to give
him an inauguration that will be his
toric. Washington was slow in get.
ting started on the plans because of
the delay in the selection of the chair
man of the committee. Since Will
liam Corcoran Eustis has been chosen
for this post he has lost no time in
pushing to completion the preliminary
arrangements.
May Be Longest Parade.
From nearly every state in tn ,
Union Democratic senators and rep
resentatives are being deluged with
letters from clubs, military and civic
organizations requesting that they be
placed in the inaugural parade. If
provision is made for every organiza-
ton that has expressed a wish to
come to Washington March it is be-
lieved the procession which will es-
cort the new president along Pennsyl-
vania avenue from the capitol to the
White House will be the longest that
has ever marched in that thorough.
fare on a similar occasion.
The parade will be headed by Big
Bill Edwards, street commissioner of
New York, a former star on the
Princeton football eleven. He will
be grand marshal.
To Use Federal Buildings.
The inaugural committee intends to
ask the congress for permission to
use the pension building for the inau-
gural ball. 1t also wishes the corri-
doris of the many federal buildings in
Washington to house visiting troops.
Permission was refused by the con-
gress four years ago to open the build
1ngs for troops. Objection was also
made to turning over the pension
building for the ball, but the feeling
against the plan was overcome. Many
OF the congressman then said 1t would
be the last time.
The entire national guard of New
Jersey, numbering $500 men, may
come to Washington to participate in
the inaugural parade as a tribute from
President-Elect Wilson's home state.
Party Machine In Good Form.
The executive committee of the
Democratic committee has decided
that permanent Democratic headquar-
ters shall be established here about
the time the new administration
comes in. Prominent Republicans
say their party is likely to do the
same thing. The personnel of the
Democratic machinery throughout the
country has been carefully tabulated
by card indexes in duplicate, and
today the Democrats have their fin
gers on a party machine the equal of
which has not been seen since the
days OF Mark Hanna. Moreover, the
Indexes are kept in separate cities, so
that II one is destroyed another will
be extant.
While the new president and his
cabinet, with his advisers in the con-
gress, build up the legislative and
executive policies of the administra-
ton, the same group of militant man.
ayers will maintain the organization
of the Democratic party. The poll
ticians have realized that the party
machinery, long neglected, must be
kept up to standard. Naturally, the
administration and the party will
seek to work tremendously.