Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1913-03-07

east front of the capitol he took
the constitutional oath of office
at l:35. and in a brief inaugural
address made fervid appeal to
all patriotic men for counsel and
aid.
This is not day of triumph
Wilson declared. it is a day Of
dedication. Here muster. not the
forces of party but the forces Of
humanity.
Vice President Marshall was in
augurated in the senate chamber
shortly before. and at the conclu-
sion of President Wilson's ad-
dress. the party hurried back to
the White House. ahead of the
inaugural procession. where Mr..
Taft said good bye to President
Wilson and prepared to leave
with his family for Augusta, Ga.
Marshall took the oath in the
senate at l2:34 and directly there
after the swearing in Of the new
senators and returning ones by
Vice President Marshall took
place. Immediately in front of
he platform where Wilson was
Major General Wood
and the general staff held a place
clear.
Across the open space }oomed
a battery of nearly 100 cameras
and motion picture machines
sraincd on the spot where Presi-
'ert Taft wac 10 psas the :1,ahtle
&C cG;ce to Wilson.
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wilson 17a'o IS ;nauGgra! ac-
i~ae7 IS fellows:
Ibcrs hes ican a ch7n~e of
~overr,nent. j. ba:ran two wears
go, when the house Of represen-
at:ves became democrats by a
lecisive majority. 1t has now
been completed. The senate
about to assemble will also be
democratic. The Offices of presi-
dent and vice president have been
put into the hands of democrats.
What does the change mean?
That is the question that is up.
permost in our minds today. Tha,
is the question arm going to try
to answer in order, If | may, to
interpret the occasion.
1t means much more than the
mere success of a perty. The sue.
cess of a party means little ex.
cept when the nation is using thai
party for a large and definite pur.
pose. No one can mistake the
purpose for which the nation nov
seeks to use the democratic party.
1t seeks to use it to interpret a
change in its own plants and poin:
q view. Some Of the old things
with which we had grown fam.
;l,ar. and which Lao begun to
creep into the very habit of ou,
thought and of our lives, have
altered their aspect as we have
latterly looked critically upon
them, with fresh. awakened eyes;
have dropped their DISCUSSES and
shown themselves alien and sin
ister. Some new things. as we
look frankly upon them. willing
to comprehend their real char
acter. have come to assume the
respect Of things long believed in
and familiar. stuff of our own con.
victions. We have been refresh.
ed by new insight into our own
life.
We see that in many things
that life is very great. 1t is incom-
parably great in its material as.
poets. in its body of wealth. in the
diversity and sweep of its energy.
n the industries which have been
conceived and built up by the
genius of individual men. and the
linitless enterprise of groups OF
men. 1t is great. also. in its moral
force. Nowhere else in the world
have noble. smen and women ex.
hibited in more striking forms the
beauty ard the energy Of sym.
oathy and h-lpfulne.s ard conn.
ael in their efforts to rectify wrong
alleviate suffering. and set tn
weak in the way Of strength are
hope. We have built up, more
over, a great system of govern
nent. which has stood through
long age as in many respects
model for those who seek to SC
liberty upon foundations that wi
endure against fortuitous chan<