The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-12-05
CroWcyM Friday Bargains Arc Filled With Opportunities

cIIxoN q ARDNER fourth OF March,
except that II has been baptized with
several inaugural billiards.. The one
four wears ago was the worst. Moth
ing but wireless kept washington on
the map. and the trains which LETT
that day had to be tagged by hand the
first fifty miles on their journay.
Every telegraph pole was down. the
alleged parade marched through
trough shoveled down Pennsylvania
ave. anu sresident-elect Taft aban-
doned a big stand in front OF the CAP
itol and took the oath of ONCE N the
senate chamber. BY noon the streets
were four inches deep In slush ana
water,
weather bureau records show that
April "a is apt to be fair day Moth
ing Is more beautiful than Washing
toms spring weather and nothing
could be more pleasant than three
DAYS or week of festival in the first
days of southern spring. The pres
ident-elect would have to take the ON
cial oath of Office on March A. NotE-
ing but change in the constitution
can alter this date, but experience has
shown that IL Is practically impossible
To secure such a change. The only
feasible way TO avoid the bad March
weather is to postpone the unofhcial
celebration. The inaugural Is an un-
Official event. It's cost Is deferred by
the merchants and hotel keepers or
Washington who plan to get their
money back from the people who
come. Grandstand concessions and
the receipts from the inaugural oaH
help TO pay back the money advanced
by public-spirited citizens. So far.
there never has been an inaugural den-
cit, and generally there Is little mar
gin to the good. II the weather were
better the merchants are sure that
the celebration would be more largely
and probably attended.
Oficially, Woodrow Wilson vii.
have some difficulty in discovering
that he is president of the United
States, even after March 4. He may
learn the fact from the newspapers, or
infer II from having taken an inaug-
ural oath He will not. however, be
oficially informed Of his choice aS
president. There is not any provision
in the statutes or constitution for n
notification, nor is there any commits
sion or certificate with seal 10 II TO
be hung on the wall as evidence that
he Is entitled to practice "presidenc-
ing. II he sees Mt to investigate the
official record Of the house and senate
he may ind on its pages an account or
the canvass Of the votes cast by the
electoral college. He might even get
a certified copy Of this record and
have Il framed: otherwise he must de
pend on common report and ordinary
newspaper stories for the Information
that he Is entitled TO occupy the very
comfortable house at the jog which
Pennsylvania-ave. takes at Fifteenth
IT.
Suggestion to the lord high execu- |
tioner-these never will be missed:
James A. Tawney, who Is drawing
$4,000 year from the public treas
ury for the hypothetical task of ad. |
justing boundary differences between
the United States and Canada and 70. !
the actual reason that he voted for
the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and was
repudiated by his constituents
Harry Sherman Boutell. OF Chicago,
sitting In on a nice diplomatic jon,
having vacationed IN Portugal and
Switzerland with considerable timo
on Go attend his daughters wedding In
Washington. ID. C., reasons similar 70
those above.
Richard c. Kerens. ambassador. etc.
at Vienna, Austria was rewarded for
q generous contribution to the Repub.
lican campaign fund: he never will
be missed.
Huntington Wilson, assistant secre-
tary OF state; pink-tea diplomat. who
has assisted to former attorney for
eSthe steel trust In working out the
!, giories OF our dollar diplomacy" The
lord high executioneI's attention is
particularly directed TO him.
Myron T. Hcrrick, little politician
from Ohio, who is drawing the pub
He's money at Paris because he seem
ed TO be OF assistance In the stand
patter's campaign to renominate our
popular president When the people