The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-03-07
WOODROW WILSON INAUGARATED
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
SIMPLEST BUT IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY WITNESSED BY THRONG OF
THE NATIONS PATRIOTIC CITIZENS-NEGR0ES AC-
CORDED DUE RECOGNITION

Special to the Globe.
Washington, D. c., Mar, Am the
presence of a great throng of his
country people, Woodrow Wilson, of
New Jersey, today was inaugurated
president of the United States In
just as simple form and yet impress
sive was the Inauguration of Thomas
R. Marshall, of Indiana, Vice Presi-
dent.
The weather was more favorable for
the occasion than it has been for
several years, and will to a degree
quiet the agitation for change in
date.
So far as the part Negroes as dis
tinct citizens play in these celebra-
tions, there was no way to distin
guish difference between this inaugu-
ration and that of Republican presi-
dent The Maryland troops marched
in line with the other state troops and
the women suffragists were lined ac-
cording to the program previously ar
ranged. There was not the least fric-
tion anywhere noticeable.
President Wilson's inaugural ad-
dress was short, and was encouched
in forceful language, yet so simple that
the humblest citizen can understand
just what he is discussing. The ad
dress in full was as follows:
There has been a change of govern
ment. 1t began two years ago, when
the House of Representatives became
Democratic by a decisive majority, 1t
has now been completed The Senate
about to assemble will also be Demo
cratic. The offices of President and
Vice-President have been put into the
hands of Democrats. What does the
change mean? That is the question I
am going to try to answer, In order,
if | may, to interpret the occasion.
1t means much more than the mere
success of party. The success Of a
party means little except when the ma
tion is using that party for a large
and definite purpose No one can mis-
take the purpose for which the nation
now seek to use the Democratic party.
1t seeks to use it to interpret a change
in its own plans and point of view.
Some old things with which we had
grown familiar, and which had begun
to creep into the very habit of our
thought and of our lives have altered
their aspect as we have latterly looked
critically upon them with fresh awak-
ened eyes; have dropped their dis
guises and shown themselves alien and
sinister. Some new things, as We look
frankly upon them, willing to cOmpre-
hend their real character, have come
to assume the aspect of things long
believed in and familiar, stuff of our
own convictions. We have been re-
freshed by new insight into our own
life.
We see that in many things that life
is very great 1t is incomparably
great in its caterial aspects, in its
body of wealth, in the diversity and
sweep of it's energy, in the industries
which have been conceived and built
up by the genius of Individual men
and the limitless enterprise of groups
of men. 1t is great also, very great,
in its moral force. Nowhere else In
the world have noble men and women
exhibited in more striking forms the
beauty and the energy Of sympathy
and helpfulness and counsel in their
efforts to rectify wrong, alleviate suf-
fering and set the weak in the way
of strength and hope. We have ubilt