The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-02-16
ADMISSION DAY CELEBRATION
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before a justice of the peace.

walked to the capitol where he was duly sworn in. The ceremony was performed on the portico of the state building before an assem blaze of more than 1000 enthusiastic citizens. The oath was administered by Chief Jus tice Albert Franklin, after prayer by Rev. Critchfield, Justice Franklin then introduced the first governor of the state as the first chief executive chos- en by the people.
 The governor then delivered his ad dress which was received with many marks of approval and appreciation.
 Despite the fact that Governor Hunt had desired to make the ceremonies markedly simple, the inauguration com mittee acted on their own initiative and at o'clock in the afternoon a sa lute of forty-eight guns was fired, as a procession nearly two miles in length marched from the City Hall Plaza through the principal streets of the city. The parade was one of the greatest ever witnessed in the south west.
 At 8 o'clock w. J. Bryan addressed an audience of about 4,000 people in City Hall Plaza, his subject being The Necessity of Education" He was warmly welcomed and heartily cheered. It was a comment of many that his style of delivery had greatly improved in the past year or two. F A. reception was held in the Adams hotel in the evening, the governor, mayor and several prominent citi- zens making brief addresses. There was also "a finely executed program of music executed srby the- Indian School Band. Governor Hunt shook hands with hundreds who passed in a constants tream through-the lobby of 1 the hotel The 1nangu*a& ball which was conducted on democratic lines concluded the observance of Ari- zona's most notable day.
 The other state officers, who, with the governor, immediately assumed their new duties are: Secretary of State, Sidney P Osborn; state treas urer, D. F. Johnson; state auditor, J. c. Callaghan; attorney general George Purdy Bullard; superintend ent of public instruction, c. O. Case; corporation commissioners, F. A. Jones, A. w. Cole w F. Geary On the portico with the official par ty were Governor Marshall of Indiana, and w. J. Bryan.
 Governor Hunt said in part: l. Tn the name of the sovereign people of Arizona, who gave it, and who have at once the right and power to take it away, | accept the respon- sibility conferred upon me. I accept it with a clear exception of it's inn mensity, keenly conscious of my own weakness and inadequacy. but with perfect faith that out of determin- ation to serce faithfully will come compensation for all personal short comings, and of an honest desire to reflect the peoples will, a successful and beneficial administration.
 "I accept this responsibility not vain-gloriously, but in verity humbled by the great honor it conveys and with mind and heart alive to the real ization that in failure that honor will be turned to dishonor and the we'll done which signifies a race well run become reproach and a disgrace There is neither thought nor desire in my mind that my administration as the first governor of the State of Ari- zona, shall live in history as excelling the administrations to come after. I would rather here express, as l hold the wish, that Arizona and the gover nors she will hereafter elect may con- tinue to be progressive and that my adm inistration may simply be so pat termed as to encourage the growth of an awakened and continually awak- ening public spirit and conscience, and point the way for administrations 1 steadily broadening, enlarging and de veloping.
 Arizona is progressive and Arizona is democratic. This fact has been clearly and simply demonstrated. believe that I may without egotism suggest that my selection as the state first chief executive is in a sense by reason of the views I have held and freely expressed typical of that pro- greSsiveneSS of that democracy. i Whether this is true or not, it can do no harm if I choose to assume that 1. such is the case and to strive in turn to typify by my conduct in office the states progressiveness and democracy 1
 The incidents of Arizonas struggle i for statehood, and the steadfast devo- tion to principle displayed by her DeOnIe have been of a nature deSi2ned ' to give her and them high rank among