The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30
POmp and Unusual Ceremony
Will Be Omitted.
There viii Be No Parade OF
Gold Lace.
ONLY TWO new OFFICIALS
All Will Take Oath of Office
Monday, January s.
A Public Reception Will Be
Held i'm Evening.

State officials will be inaugurated
January s without pomp or undue
ceremony Plans by the inaugural
committee call for elimination OF the
inaugural parade. Ceremonies at the
state house will be short and simple
The reception at night will be decid-
edly informal. with a general tend
ency toward a ban on head waiter
clothes
Just two new state officials are to
be inaugurated They are Walter l..
Payne of Burlingame, state treasurer
elect; and Fred w. Knapp of Beloit,
state auditor-elect. Other state off
cials will be in the inaugural line and
will take their oath of office for
second terms. Governor Capper's in
augural speech will be the one i'm
portant address during the noon-day
ceremonies in Representative hall
In 1913, the Democrats put new
action in inaugural ceremonies in
Kansas when George II. Hodges be-
came governor. A military parade
with brass bands, low neck hacks, cut
flowers and ladies in waiting were
some of the features that made the
Hodges induction into office a 33d de-
y
play this year, but only at the state
house. There will be a military es-
cort and usual firing of cannon and
waving of flags. But there will be no
paradeS and state officials will take
their oath of office under rather mod
est settings
Chief Justice w. A. Johnston will
administer the oath of office to Gov
ernor Capper and all other state Of
ficials. New and retiring officials will
be seated together during the in
augural ceremonies, with reserved
seats for families and guests of Off
cialS.
The inaugural Address.
Following the taking of the oath OF
office, Governor Capper will deliver
his inaugural speech. He will talk
ferty or fifty minutes. His speech will
define the policies of his aGministra-
ton during his second two-year term
and will be a message of statewide
concern. No other state officials will
speak during the ceremonies, which
are slated to begin promptly at noon.
Following the Inauguration of the
state officials, a salute of seventeen
guns will be fired by Battery A, of
Topeka.
The inaugural reception will be held
Monday night at the state house. The
reception will be open to the public
many prominent men and women of
the state being in the reception line
Following the reception by state Of
ficials, new members of the legislature
will receive in the house and senate
chambers on the third floor of the
state house.
Both branches of the legislture will
organize Monday afternoon, following
the inaugural ceremonies. Members
of the Legislature, however, will not
take their oath of office until Tuesday
morning, when supreme court justices
will swear in the law makers. The leg
islators will receive the oath in blocks
of ten members. The governors mes
sage to the legislature will probably
be read Wednesday, January 10. 1t i.
probable Governor Capper will per
sonally appear before both houses witt
his recommendations for the session.
State officials to receive the oath OF
office at the inaugural January 8, are
Supreme court justices: Silas Porter
Kansas City; ]. S. West, Topeka Gov.
ernor: Arthur Capper, Topeka Sec.
retary of State: ]. T. Botkin, Galena
Attorney General: S. NJ. Brewster
Troy. Treasurer: Walter L. Payne
Burlingame. Auditor: Fred w
Knapp, Beloit superintendent of Pub.
lie instruction: w. d. Ross, Topeka
I Superintendent of Insurance: care,
J. Wilson, Topeka. State Printer: w
/ r. Smith, Columbus