Weekly journal-miner., 1913-03-12
By Associated Press.

NAS1lNO ON, hdI- w OOu- TOW Wilson was inaugurated presi- dent of the United States and Tho mas Riley Marshall, vice-president today. Under the dome of the na- lions capitol and in the presence of a countless, cheering concourse of his fellow-citizens, the new president raised his hand toward the prophetic sun that burst through the dissolving clouds and pronounced the occas- ion day of dedication but not of triumph.
 It was an intensely human, pre- D Aeedent-breaking inauguration. With the members of his chosen Cabinet surrounding him, the justices of the Supreme Court before him, his wife and daughters actually dancing with joy on the platform below, and Taft, ex-president of the nation at his
 side, the new president shouted a summons to all "honest patriotic
 forward-looking men" to aid him, ex- tending the promise that he would not fail them in the guidance of their government.
 While the Presidents concluding inaugural words were being greeted with tumultous waves of applause, the retiring president clapped his hands and enlisted as a patriotic ser want in the ranks of private citizen ship. "Mr. President" said Taft, his face beaming and broadening into smile, q wish you successful ad ministration and the carrying out of your aims We will all be behind' you"
 Thank you said Wilson, and turned to shake hands with Secre- tary of State, Bryan. There they stood-Taft the standard bearer of a party vanquished after sixteen years of power-Bryan the persistent plod der of progressive democracy, thrice defeated and Wilson the man of the hour, victorious in mastering as he expressed 1t, not the forces of the party, but the forces of humanity It was a political picture far beyond the imagination of a few years gone by, a setting that stirred the souls of the assembled hosts whose cheer ing at the scene seemed actually to reverberate from the distant Vir- ginia hills.
 President Wilson's inaugural speech was as follows:
 There has been a change of govern ment. It began two years ago, when the House of Representatives be- came Democratic by a decisive ma jority. It has now been completed. | The Senate about to assemble will | also be Democratic. The offices of | President and Vice-President have been put into the hand of Democrats. | What does the change mean? That | IS the question that is upperrnost Tn our minds today. That is the question l am going to try to an- swer, in order, if may, to interpret the occasion.
 It means much more than the mere success of a party. The sue cess of party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use 1t to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view. Some old things with which we had grown familiar, and which had begun to creep into the very habit of our thought of our lives, have altered their aspect as we have latterly looked critically upon them, with fresh, awkward eyes; have dropped their disguise and shown themselves alien and sinister. Some new things, as We look frankly upon them, will ing to comprehend their real char acter, have come to assume the as- I pect of things long believed in and l familiar, stuff Of our own convict g ions. We have been refreshed by new insight into our own life.
 We see that in many things that ( fife is very great. It is incompar- $ lbly great in its material aspects, in V Is body of wealth, in the diversity r md sweep of its energy, in the in V lcstries which have been conceived t