The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-03-05
NATION'SCHIEF
EXECUTIVE IS
GIVEN OATH
Five Hundred Thousand Cheering
Americans Acclaim New Jer-
sey Man President.
INAUGURAL PARADE Is
GREATEST IN HISTORY
Stately Inaugural Pageant Moves
Through Crowded Streets of
the National Capital.
Inauguration Features viii
Be Found on Page Nine.


WASHINGTON. o. c.. MARCH a.
WOODROW WILSON. OF NEW JER-
sEY. WAS INRUGURATED TODAY !
AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED !
STATES; THOMAS r.. MARSHALL. /
OF INDIANA. ITS VICE PREsI- !
DENT: DEMOCRACY TIE VEHICLE 7
OF ITS DESTINY. /
UNDER THE DOME oF THE Ma !
TONS CAPITOL. IN THE PRES
ENcE OF A COUNTLESS CHEER
ING cONcoURSE OF HIS FELLOW J
CITIZENS. THE NEW PRESIDENT I
RAISED A HAND TOWARD A PRO- |
PHETIc SUN THAT BURST !
THROUGH DIssOLVIN6 CLOUDS Z
AND PRONOUNCED THE occA-
SION A DAY OF DEDICATION, NOT !
OF TRIUMPH.
1T WAS AN INTENSELY HUMAN, !
PREcEoENT-BREAKING INAUoU-
RATION. WITH MEMBERS OF HIS
CHOSEN CABINET SURROUNDING
HIM. THE JUSTICES OF THE sU-
PREME COURT BEFORE HIM. HIS
WIFE AND DAUGHTERS ACTUAL
LY DANCING FOR JOY ON THE
PLATFORM BELOW. AND WILL
/ IAN HOWARD TAFT. Ex-PRESI-
DENT OF THE NATION. AT HIS
SIDE, THE NEW PRESIDENT
SHOUTED A SUMMONS TO ALL
"HoNEsT, PATRIOTIC. FORWARD
LOOKING MEN" TO AID HIM IN Ex-
TENDING THE PROMISE THAT HE
WOULD NOT FAIL THEM IN THE
GUIDANCE OF THEIR GOVERN
MENT.
WHILE THE PRESIDENTS CON-
IcLUOING INAUGURAL WORDS
WE'RE TOSSING IN TUMULTUoUS
WAVES OF APPLAUSE. THE RE
TIRlNo PRESIDENT cLAsPED HIS
HAND AND ENLISTED AS A PATRl.
oTIc SERVANT IN THE RANKS OF
/ PRIVATE CITIZENSHIP.
TAFT Greets Wilson.
Mr.. President" said Mr.. Taft. his
face bcaming with broadening smile
I"G wish Won successful aiministra-
ton and the carrying out Of Your aims
We will all be- behind YOU"
Thank you said President Wilson.
and he turned TO shake fho hand of
his secretary Of state. William Jcn-
uings Hryan. There they stood
Tart. standard bearer as servant of
% vanquished party after sixteen
years Of power. Bryan. persistent
plodd"r of progress i've democracy.
thrice defeated. accepting a commits
sion from q new chicftain and Wilson.
the man Of the hour. victorious. mus
terinE. a- ho expressed if "Nuf the
force NJ party. but th" forces oi hui
manify'
L. vas 20 political picture far beyond
imagluiugs of few years gone hy. 20
setting thai stirred the souls az the
assembled hosts whose cheering ~
fhc seen" seemed actually Goo rover
bcrafc from the distant Virginia hIl
The military and civic uar.auf that
followed this climax ~ tur historic
day was more than Eve hours rf--.u-
300 review leaving capitol hfi tf .
oclncs iu tho afternoon. fh- ast of
Tho inarchiuE thousands bad NOT dlf
f"d their COLOR to rho president iu
th" court OF honor until long after
darkn'. had fallen.
Cheering Thousands Pay Homesge.
President wilson stood 'or moro
than 1r hour under fhn r'ar. OF ms.
raids ~ brilliant electric lrHf- as rr
greeted thousands in tho Lr. Ine.
amour them the host OF Princeton
tul'rfs Who. a. fhoy passed brforn
him. shouted hearty lr''frc fhIf
Do" never can forget
of tho e.idod uniforms and 900 th. tr.
fhIai1-m in thr pale1uf thIf bad gone
before h1d stirred him ara.u and
again llf fho sight of fhI. cheering
, student army Was tu President Wilson
au inspiration chat brourhf ,Heri .I.I
memories and JOYOUS fears NU'
bong aur- ffr boS from O'd N1ss4u
had passed ho turned f-'m fln human
. panorama and entered trr White
Iiuu." tu grasp Pho wheel OF fIc .HIp
of state
rcromonlre in tho senate chamber
which marked fhe DIVING 0f fus etxfr.
rruUd and f'tr tIfHiIIIrr OF f'n r..r
sixty third congress. embracing fI.
ifHrrurIflu uf E.tr PRO iI.rf Star.
HHU Hri fir sNrurIrr boo Uf fIr
senator .sInrf were rItrr mur. fr
uI..aItr. TIDucn dtlatrI somewhat
ht thr course of lrrIaItInr. u..r. .f8.
fInr fIru.rs back Hu i1ir f.r hand.
. uf fhr c'oek f.s interest wa. f.r.r
Tla more. Iou into fr. chamber of
fi~ member. oi fhc House Hf Nrrre
sentative. anhlaeldor. and ministers
of forn $40 cnuntrr. ir l1 their bril-
lnuf rer1Ia. trr tu'. 1u.fi.. .rf
fu.toe- of th" Surr.m, t.Ir r
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