The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-03-10
PRESIDENT HARDING
BY SIMPLE CEREMONY.
Nation Passes from War to Peace
Regime With Least Poss-
ib1e Ado.-Business
Term Presaged.

w 8Sh1ngUOn, MaHcn 4.-Iu
reins of presidential authorit
passed from Woodrow Wilson t
Warren G.. Harding today in al
inaugural ceremony at once tn
simplest and most dramatic of
generation.
The drama centered about tn
retirement of Woodrow Wilson
Insistent to the last that he woult
carry out retiring president !
customary part in the ceremon
les, Mr.. Wilson finally yielded t.
the warning of his physician tina
he might endanger his life, anC
only accompanied his successor
to the capitol.
After few moments at ths
capitol Mr.. Wilson went to hi.
private home to become splair
Woodrow Wilson now,' as he ex
pressed it.
Before Mr.. Harding had been
president an hour he had reviv-
ed a precedent set by George
Washington by comforting with
the senate in executive session,
submitting in person the nomi-
nations of his ten cabinet off
GERS. All were Immediately con-
firmed. Within another hour he
had gone to the White House to
chang up his hat and go to
work, - as he often had said, and
unlocked the White House gates,
for four years closed to the pub
lie. The public celebrated by ac-
tually overrunning the grounds
and peeping through the win
dows to see the new president.
Mr.. Harding took the oath of
office at l :18 p. M, exactly eight
years to the minute from the time
Mr.. Wilson took his first oath.
The inaugural ceremonies were
kept free from almost every show
of the pomp and circumstance
that usually surround the incom
ing of "a chief executive. Thous-
ands witnessed the oath and
cheered the old and new presi-
dents. but the crowd was only a
fraction of the customary
throngs.
On the Bible used by George
Washington at his first induction
into office, and on a verse of
scripture extolling the virtues of
an humble faith in God, Mr..
Harding plighted his best ability
to the presidency. In his inaug
ural address he reaffirmed his
reverence for the traditions of
the fathers and reiterated his be-
lief that the supreme task ahead
was to bring the country once
more to normalcy.
About the only features famil
lar to inaugurals were the pat
riotic decorations that fluttered
under bright sun along Pensyl-
yania avenue and the usual es-
cort of cavalry acting as a presi-
Dental guard of honor in the ride
to and from the capitol. The on
ly semblance of a parade was pre-
sented by the little group of of
ficial motor cars and the hollow
square of troopers.
Before his own Inauguration
began Mr.. Harding attended that
of his vice president, Calvin Cool !
idge, in the senate chamber.
1t was an hour past noon when
the first inaugural company be-
gan to file out on the platform
facing the east plaza, members of
the senate and house coming
first, followed by the foreign dip
Iomats in dress uniform and, last
of all, by the justices of the SUI
preme court and the president
elect. Chief Justice White and
Mr.. Harding walked to the front
Of the platform together, as the
marine band played the national
Then the oath was administer
I'd and the new president began
lis inaugural address, reading
rom manuscript but making his
points with vigorous gestures
hat awakened repeated periodsl
If applause.