Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-01-21
BIG SHOW CERTAIN
WILSON'S SIMPLICITY DESIRE
WILL NOT SPOIL INAUGURAL
CEREMONIES.
BIG PARADE ALWAYS PROPER
Frssident-EIect's Hint That He Would
Like to Walk to Capitol Stirs Up
Discussion-Must Consider Taft's
Wishes
BY GEORGE CLINTON

BY GEORGE CLINTON
Washington" Make the Inaugural
ton ceremonies as simple as posi-
hle.' is the request of President-elec,
Woodrow Wilson.
Make the inauguration ceremonies
worthy in dignity and display of the
great victory of the Democracy" is
! the dietum of most of the Democratic
leaders in Washington.
| The local Inauguration committee
has been appointed ana has gone to
its work energetically 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 ESQ it is
! that while the actual inducing into
Office and part of the ceremonies in
which the president-elect has a 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 distance.
One of the agitating questions just
now is whether or not there is any
| likelihood that Mr.. Wilson will carry
out 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
inauguration days. Even Thomas JEFF.
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-
kually unattended. 1t may be said that
ahe streets of Washington in Jeffer-
sons day, certainly the middles OF
them were in such condition that no
man, president or other, could walk
Ear without becoming stuck boot-deep
| n the mud
Gov. William Sulzer. who took the
oath of Office as chief executive of
| New York state on January l, broke
q state precedent by walking from the
executive mansion to the capitol, but
| that walk was only short one, the
| day was perfect and the outgoing gov
! ernor, Mr.. Dix, who had to accompany
his successor to the capitol, was per
! tectiy willing to walk with him. It 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
60 the capitol, for it is not customary
sor a president to take example of a
governor, but it is believed that the
president really has a desire to
make the walk to the capitol if it can
| Be done without having it appear that
Ne is straining after an effect OF Dem
ecratic simplicity and thereby will
overdo the thing and bring it pos
eibly to the border of ridicule.
Hr 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 I'M
til after he has reached the big legis-
lativc building on the hill and has
taken the oath of office. The question
is. therefore. would it be proper for
Mr.. Wilson in the capacity of presi-
dent-elect to insist that Mr.. Taft IN
.he capacity of real president should
walk the mile and third along Penn
,ylvania 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 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 it 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 Taft's APP
pointments 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 un!fl 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
If the Republicans in the senate
ware 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-
iican senators are at variance, not
only on legislation but on the wisdom
of the appointments which Mr.. Taft
has made, and therefore the present
dominant party in the senate is Law
ing a hard time of it trying to
gtraighten out troubles and to induce
che Republican senators to line Up
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