The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-10
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
OF GOV. TRAMMELL
advocates Adjustment Of Con.
Wet Lease System.
PLEDGES PROGRESSIVE POLICY
Incoming Governors Address Deals
With Many Reforms in the System
OF State Government As Advocated
BY Him During Campaign.


Ladies and Fellow Citizens:
In the breath and in the spirit of
the solemn oath which has just been
administered to me by the states
highest judicial official officer, l de-
sire now, not in any empty sense of
Formally, but with all the sincerity
and earnestness which | possess, tc
pledge my time, my best services anc
whatever of ability | have, to the
cause CT Florida; her moral advance
ment, her material growth, the better
ment Of her institutions, the happi-
ness of her citizens, and to the adj
ministering Of all the affairs of gov
eminent in a manner which will pro-
tect, promote and foster the interest
and welfare of the people of this great
state.
Since it was decreed by the SOW
ereign will of the people of Florida
that upon this day l should succeed
to the Office of governor, have, l as
sure YOU, been filled with the keenest
and most sincere gratitude for the
honor conferred upon me, and have
priced more than anything beneath
the heavens the token of confidence
recorded b. my fellow citizens. l
am profoundly thankful for this OPP
portunity, at the very threshold of
the administration upon which we
are about to enter, to say that, come
what may, | shall always stand a
debtor to the people of Florida, and
It shall be both my pleasure and my
constant purpose, by proper regard
for nv fellowman, by an answering
fidelity and loyalty to every public
trust. to manifest my gratitude and
heartfelt appreciation for the honor
of having been called to the chief
magistracy Of our state.
| enter upon the duties of this i'm
portant office fully mindful that to
the man who has the right conception
of his duty, the ambition to serve in
a public capacity is not for the pur-
pose of enriching himself, the pun
ishment of enemies or rewarding at
the public expense his friends, nor
that he may extend any special priv
ileee to any person or class; but he
is moved by the higher and nobler
purpose of rendering the greatest
service of which he is capable to the
whole people. So far as human liml'
tations and my own capacity will per-
nit, | now assure you that my Off
cial conduct during the next foul
wears shall be ever guided and gov
erned by this high conception Of pub
lie duty.
I have been gratified and pleased
to note the satisfaction with which
the people of Florida generally seem
ed to accept the result of our recent
primary and the general election fol
lowing; and I hope and believe thai
whatever feeling may have arisen II
the heat Of the campaign for the gov
ernorship has now given place t.
good will; and this happy condition
fills me with the confident hope tina
Florida is now preparing to enjoy
most beneficial period of good feeling
ard harmony-a period in which pc
litcal controversy will give way t.
the states advancement, in which ri
valries and ieaIousies of whateve
nature will be sUbordinated to heart.
and healthy promotion of the genera
welfare.
No state is richer in its history, it
traditions or in romance than ours
None has past more glorious, nor
future fraught with greater promise
Surely, there are unerring indication
that Florida is now entering upon
new, brilliant and most fruitful pc
riod of industrial development.
is impossible for the keenest prophet
ic vision to forecast her progress
within the next decade. With gu
state alive in every field of endeavol
necessarily the duties and respons
bilities of those who are charged an
entrusted with the conduct of tn
public business are greatly augment
ed and the public demands broadene
and enlarged The times demand as
gression and progress in public a
fairs. Government should kee
abreast with the times, and it is m
earnest hope that FIorida's public il
terests shall during the administr;
ton now beginning, and througho1
the future, be fully responsive to tt
industrial and social progress
her people.
Politically, we are at the dawn
a new era in the history of tn
great nati0n-an era marked by
unparalleled awakening of the publ
conscience upon the problems of Il
age and in the matter of demandir
the highest standard of service fro
public officials. The masses ha'
grasped a full realization of the ia
that the foundation of free COVER
ment rest upon the consent al
should be guided by the will of Il
people. Government is for the ge
eral good, and that public serva
who fails to honestly exert all h
energies towards securing the grea
est possible benefits for his co
stituents has fallen short of fulfil
ing the just and reasonable deman
which should be expected of tho
called to positions of public trus
Nothing short of the most cOnsta
devotion to duty is going to satisfy t
people under the happy new CONF
tons of popular concern about poll
cal affairs--and | believe nothing ell
should satisfy them.
For about score of years the co
test has waged heavily in this cou
try-as it has, indeed, throughout t