The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
WOODROW WILSON
IS INAUGURATED
18TH PRESIDENT
Declares the Occasion Is One
of Dedication and Not
of Triumph
DEMOCRACY is AGAIN
VEHICLE OF DESTINY
Political Picture Stirs Countless Host
of Cheering Fellow Citizens.
Takes Oath of Office
Promptly at 1885
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There they stood-Taft, standard
bearer of vanquished party after
16 years of power; Bryan, persistent
plodder of progressive democracy,
thrice defeated, accepting a commits
sion from a new chieftain, and Wilson,
the man Of the hour, victorious, mus
tering, as he expressed it, mot the
forces of party, but the forces Of
humanity"
It was a political picture far be-
yond imaginings of few years gone
by, setting that stirred the souls Of
the assembled hosts whose cheering
at the scene seemed actually to rever-
berate from the distant Virginia hills.
The military and civic pageant that
followed this climax of the historic
day was more than five hours passing
in review. Leaving Capitol Hill at
2 o'clock in the afternoon, the last
of the marching thousands had not
saluted the President until long after
darkness had fallen.
President Wilson stood for more
than an hour under the glare of
myriads of brilliant electric lights as
he greeted thousands in the long line,
among them the host of Princeton
students, who, as they passed before
him, shouted hearty greeting that
he never can forget.
The music Of the bands, the glitter of
the uniforms and all the enthusiasm that
had gone before him had stirred him again
and again. but the sight of this cheering
student army was to President Wilson an
inspiration that brought cherished men,
or1es and joyous tears. Not long after
the boys from old Nassau had passed he
turned from the human panorama and
entered the White House to grasp the
wheel of the ship of state
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY
HELD IN SENATE
Ceremonies in the Senate chamber which
marked the dying of the Sixty-second
and the vitalizing of the Sixty-third Con-
gress. embracing the Inauguration of
Vice President Marshall and the swearing
in of the senators-elect were never more
impressive. Though delayed somewhat
by the course of legislation necessitating
turning back half an hour the hands of
the clock, the interest was tense.
The procession into the chamber of the
members of the House, ambassadors and
ministers of foreign countries in all their
brilliant regalia, the chief justice and
justices of the supreme court in their
sombre robes, the vice president-elect,
President Taft and the President elect,
side by side, escorted by the members of
the congressional inaugural committee,
was an awe-inspiring spectacle.
MARSHALL TAKES
OATH OF OFFICE
When all had taken their places, and
the members of the new cabinet had
been seated in the rear of the room, Mr..
Marshall took the oath of office, admin
Uietered by Senator Gallinger at exactly
D>R4 o'clock. He then delivered his in
augural address, in which he referred
to the Senate as the binders of the gov
erpmental harness"
Then began the procession from the
Senate wing to the great ampitheatre
at the east front of the capitol. After
Chief Justice White, followed by the
ether justices of the supreme court had
entered the inaugural stand, President
raft and President-eect Wilson appeared
in the doorway of the capitol. Their
presence was the signal for cheers from
the crowd assembled in the wide
esplanade the huge grandstand and
perched fringe-like on the roof of the