Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-01-22
WILSON'S SIMPLICITY DESIRE
WILL NOT SPOIL INAUGURAL
CEREMONIES.
BIG PARADE ALWAYS PROPER
9resident-EIect's Hint That He Would
Like to Walk to Capitol stirs Up
piscusslon-Must Consider Taft's
Wishes.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

! Woodrow Wilson
Make the Inauguration ceremonies
worthy in dignity and display of the
great victory of the Democracy," is
the dicLum of most of the Democratic
leaders in Washington.
The local inauguration committee
has been appointed and has gone tC
its work theoretically. 1t is not un
derstood that Mr.. Wilson's request for
simplicity means, that he does not
wish to have huge parade. Parades
the promoters of big inaugural events
say, are representative of the people
enjoyed by the people and are in
every way eminently proper. So it is
that while the actual inducing into
office and part of the ceremonies in
which the president-elect has per
sonal place may be extremely simple
it can be taken for granted that there
will be big show in Washington on
March 4, perhaps the biggest show
ever presented to the eyes of the
capital residents and of their visitors
from a distance
One of the agitating questions just
now is whether or not there is any
likelihood that Mr.. Wilson will carry
out a half-hint he has made that he
would like to walk from the executive
mansion to the capitol where the GER
emonies of taking the oath and of de-
livering the Inaugural address take
| place
Would Break All Precedent.
If Mr. Wilson should walk from the
White House to the capitol he would
break all presidential precedents of
ferson, whose course on the occasion
of his oath-taking is always referred
to as the acme of simplicity, rode on
horseback to the capitol though vir-
tually unattended It may be said that
the streets of Washington in Jeffer-
sons day, certainly the middles of
them, were in such condition that no
man. president or other, could walk
far without becoming stuck boot-deep
In the mud
Gov William SulZer, who took the
oath of office as chief executive of
New York state on January /, broke
a state precedent by walking from the
executive mansion to the capitol, but
that walk was only a short one, the
day was perfect and the outgoing gov
ernor, Mr.. Dix, who had to accompany
his successor to the capitol, was per
fectly willing to walk with him. 1t is
not supposed in Washington that Mr.
Wilson had Mr.. Suffers precedent in
mind when he limited that he might
like to walk from the White House
to the capitol, for it is not customary
for a president to take example Of
governor, but it is believed that the
president-elect really has a desire to
make the walk to the capitol if it can
be done without having it appear that
he is straining after an effect of Dem
ocratic simplicity and thereby will
overdo the thing and bring it pos
sibly to the border of ridicule
Mr.. Taft Must Be Considered.
When the president-elect starts
from the White House to go to the
capitol he will be accompanied by the
president of the United States, for
Mr.. Wilson will not be president UNI
til after he has reached the big legis-
latfve building on the hill and has
taken the oath of Office. The question
is. therefore, would 1t be proper for
Mr.. Wilson in the capacity of presi-
dent-elect to Insist that Mr.. Taft in
the capacity of real president should
walk the mile and third along Penn
sylvania avenue to the capitol under
weather conditions which are very
likely to be bad.
Mr.. Taft is big man physically, but
contrary to general belief on the sub
iect he is a good deal Of a walker. 1t
can be taken for granted that If Mr..
Wilson actually shall request Mr.. Taft
to walk the mile and third with him
he will acquiesce, but 1t may be that
In advance some one will suggest to
the president-elect that the president
would prefer that the request be not
made
Appointments Still Held Up.
The senate Is still refusing to con-
firm many of President Tafts ap-
continents. Nearly all the men
named for government places are
those whose terms have just expired,
and Of course the Democratic senators
desire that these places shall remain
vacant until President-elect Wilson
takes Office and names persons of
his own choosing. This matter Of
Democratic opposition to confirmation
of Mr.. Taft's appointments has been
pretty thoroughly discussed In previ-
GUS dispatches. but new phase has
come upon the matter within a
day.
II the Republicans in the senate
were united, and all of them could be
brought to attend the executive ses-
sions of the senate, the presidents
appointees could be confirmed despite
Democratic opposition, but the Repub-
lican senators are at variance, not
only on legislation, but on the wisdom
OF the appointments which Mr. Taft
has made. and therefore the present