The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-02-28
Pomp and Parade Have
Marked Inauguration
of Many P ev iou S
Chief Magistrates
Something A b 0 u t
What Other Pr e s +
dents Confronted.
, tBy Associated Press.)

WdSHlAblOfl, w F6U. y
ton Of President-elect Harding will
mark the first swing of ceremonies to-
ward simplicity since Thomas Jeffer-
son toiled up Capital Hill afoot one
hundred and twenty-one years ago.
The ceremony of administering the
cath, will be as it was prescribed by
George Washington. There will be no
change in its utter simplicity, but Mr..
Harding by his own decision will en-
ter upon his great task without the
pomp and parade that have increas-
ingly surrounded that Solemn moment
as the years went by. Not even the
"salvos of artillery that heralded the
dawn OF Jefferson s Inauguration day
will wake the sleeping echoes along
the Potomac next Friday.
No Parade
Gone, too, Will be the inaugural pa
rade, time-honored since regular and
militia troops blazed the historic
route up Pennsylvania avenue to "the
Presidents House when President
Madison rode in state to take up du-
ties laid down by Jefferson. Weather
alone has prevented or hindered this
national spectacle in the. years that
followed
Gone also the decorated floats and
the soldiery from many states which
accompanied President William Hen.
ry Harrison as he rode his horse to
the capitol to take the oath; gone the
tramping ranks of cabinet officers and
clergy and professors and students of
Georgetown University which made
the historic journey with Polk; gone
the military splendor of the pageants
that marked elevation to high office
Of soldierly Zachary Taylor and U.
s. Grant.
Among things of the more recent
past NOT to be revived for Mr.. Hard
ing will be the gray and white clad
lines of West Point. cadets. stepping
proudly and with perfect unison up
the great avenue Inauguration has
Eeen for these future leaders of the
army and for their brothers of the
Midshipmen corps rom Annapolis, q
great public day, and the nation has
layished Well deserved plaudits on
their appearance.
~ PODi Rode in Parade
When Polk rode to his Inauguration
kid. glove troop Of young Virgin
jans, the Fairfax Cavalry, clattered
before him as special escort. 1t was
the first time military organization
had been specially distinguished III
such fashion,, but at times thereafter
incoming presidents have paid, and re-
ceived compliments of the kind, which
will be- lacking at Mr.. Harding's in
auguration. President Benjamin Har-
rison rose at the head of his old regi-
ment the Seventh Indiana Volunteer
Infantry, President Mckinley was es-
corted by Troop A of Cleveland g
Black Horse calvary.
Great with problems as may bs the
four years ahead of Mr.. Harding as
he turns with the weight of his oath
upon him to- the work he has himself
! said win be calling, grim tenseness
that has hung over the inauguration
of some. of his predecessors will be
lacking ]
Z :, Madis0n's Problems
Madison was to see Washington in
emmy hands And 'The Presidents g
House" fred by British; the drum
/, ming tramp of: troops in full war gear.
called to- guard the capital in the
brewing storm Of civil war was ir
ILneDln's. wars as he pledged his faith.
his very life, to his task Yet Dougles.
his defeated rival. stood at his side
anu held his hat as Lincoln bent his
long figure to seal his oath with his
lips upon the Bible.
Four years laters- again called to
high service. lincoln saw the wrack
and ruin OF war spreading far to the
south beyond the Potomac War
.iilat56sd men were sroaning in hospi-
: tails phapd by where he stood to take
his oath and ahead lay ybttteritiays OF
reconBtfa0fi6M ~ y law
Ptea14ent lReygs awas awice sworn
in. MaF6k 4 gWaasa nGundaX,stha year
3 The ELECTION decision had left "a rank
I ling sore behind IL for one electoral
vofE had def Eatgd Ffldefi '0n March
81, pfIyateIy the 3atH was sisfst admin
istered 10 President Hayeantos be re-
peated in public March S. .a..
u When Woodrow Wilson rode down
Pennsylvania avenue and back agar
Z at his second: inauguration IN 1917
American entry into the World Wal
was at hand. The last remnants .oi
the Court OF Honor before the White
House erected for inauguration hat
NOT disappeared before the nation
was afiame with war business