The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-03-07
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
HEADS CABINET AS SECRE-
TARY OF STATE.

TARY OF STATE.
Wilson and Marshall Take Oaths of
Washington, March 4-Woodrow
Wilson, of New Jersey, was inaug-
urated today as president of the
United States; Thomas R. Marshall
of Indiana, its vice-president; Dem
ocracy, the vehicle of its destiny.
Under the dome Of the nations cap
ital in the presence of a countless
concourse of his fellow citizens, the
new president raised a hand toward
a prophetic sun that burst dissolv-
ing clouds and pronounced the occa-
sion a day of dedication; not o.
triumph.
1t was an intensely human, prcce-
dent breaking Inauguration. With
members of his chosen cabinet sur
rounding him, the justices If the su-
preme court before him, his wife and
daughters actually dancing joy on the
platform below, and Willia" Howard
Taft, eX-president of the nation at
his side, the new president shouted
summons to all "honest, patriotic,
forward looking men" to aid nim, lx-
tending the promise that ne would
not fail them in the guidance Of their
government.
While the presidents concluding in-
augural words were tossing in tu-
multuous waves of applause. the re-
firing president claspel his hand ard
enlisted as a patriotic servant in the
ranks of private citizenship.
Congratulated by lar.
"Mr. President" said Mr. Taft, his
face beaming with smile, 81 wish you
successful administration and the
carrying out Of your aims. We will
all be behind you"
"Thank you," said President Will
son, and he turned to shake the hand
of his secretary of state, William j.
Bryan.
There they stood-Taft, standard
bearer of vanquished party after
sixteen years of power; Bryan, per-
sistent plodder of progressive dem
ocracy, thrice defeated, accepting Z
commission from new chieftain, and
Wilson, the man of the hour, victo-
rious, mastering as he expressed it, !
mot the forces of party, but the
forces of humanity"
1t was a political picture far be-
yond imagination of a few years gone
by, setting that stirred the souls |
of the assembled hosts whose cheer |
ing at the scene seemed actually to |
reverberate from the distant Virginia |
hills.
The military and civic pageant |
that followed this climax of the his
toric day was more than five hours
passing in review. Leaving the cap |
ital hill at o'clock in the afternoon,
the last of the marching thousands
had not saluted the president until
long after darkness had fallen
The Presidents Cabinet
President Wilson has sent to the
Senate for confirmation the names of !
the men who are to compose his cab
met of advisors. They are:
Secretary of State-William |
Jennings Bryan of Nebraska.
Secretary of Treasury-William G.
McAdoo of New York.
Secretary of War-Lindley M. Gar
rison of New Jersey.
Attorney General-James C. Nc
Reynolds of Tennessee.
Postmaster General-Albert S. Bur-
Lesson of Texas.
Secretary of Navy-Josephus Dan
iels of North Carolina
Secretary of Interior-Franklin X.
Lane of California.
Secretary of Agriculture-David F.
Houston of Missouri.
Secretary of Commerce-William
c. Redfeld of New York.
Secretary of LabOr-Wiliam B.
Wilson of Pennsylvania.
Goodbye to the Taft's.
William Howard Taft said farewell
to public life on Tuesday after the
Inauguration ceremonies, and with .
Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen departed
for Augusta, Ga.
The retiring Presidents goodbye
was a smile A hand shake for the
members of his cabinet; a courtly bow
to the women friends who braved the
diScomfortS to , bid him
and Mrs. Taft Godspeed in the union
station, a wave of the hand and an
other smile for the people who stood
in the train shed and watched his
train pull slowly out for the south.
The last that Washington saw of
the twenty-seventh president was the
dim outline of big smiling figure in
a frock coat with hair little awry,
standing on the rear platform of
private car as it was swallowed in
the curling smoke of the tunnel that
leads under the city to Dixie. His