Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-27

will he the gray and white clad lines Of West Point cadets. stepping proud ly and with perfect unison up the great avenue. Inauguration has been for these. future leaders of the army for their brothers or the midshipmen corrs from Annapolis. a great public day, and the nation has layished well deserved plaudits on their appearance.
 When Polk rode to his inauguration a kid glove" troop of young Virgin ians, the Fairfax Cavalry, clattered before him as special escort. It was the first time a military organization had been especially distinguished in such fashion, but at times thereafter incoming presidents have paid and re- ceiyed compliments of the kind which will be lacking at Harding's inausuT- ation. President Benjamin Harrison rose at the head of his old regiment, the seventeenth Indiana Volunteer In- 1antry, President Mckinley was es- cOrted by Troop A of Cleveland's Black Horse Cavalry.
 Great with problems as may be the four years ahead of Harding as he turns with the weight of his oath upon him to the work he has himself said will be calling, a grim tenseness that has hung over the inauguration of some of his predecessors will be lacking
 Madison was to see Washington ir enemy hands and The Presidents $ House" fired 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 in Lincoln's wars as he pledged his faith his very life, to his task. Yet Doug las. his defeated rival, stood at his side and held his hat as Lincoln bent his long figure to seal his oath with his lips upon the Bible.
 Four years later. again called to high service, Lincoln saw the wrack and ruin of war spreading far to the South beyond the Potomac; war maim- ed men were groantng in hospitals hard by where he stood to take his oath and ahead lay bitter days of re- construction.
 President Hayes was twice sworn in. March was a Sunday that year. ! The election decision had left a rank ling sore behind it, for one electoral vote had defeated Tilden. On March 13. privately the oath was first ad- ministered to President Hayes to be repeated in public March ,.
 When Woodrow Wilson rode down Pennsylvania avenue and back again at his second inauguration m 1917, American entry into the World war was at hand. The last remnants Ol the Court of Honor before the White 1 House erected for inauguration had not disappeared before the nation was aflamc with war business.
 Traditions Differ
 I There have been other inaugura- : tions over which even darker cloud lowered, Andrew Jackson took office | in 1879 soon after the death Of his wife which curtailcd inauguration ! ceremonies. and ire times vice pres ] idents have been called to the pres idency through the death Ot the
 Ircsidcnt. three times by assassina-
 ton. In each case the vice president
 took up his duties without formal ccr cmony other than private administra- ! ton of his oath of office. Tyler. at
 his home in Washington, Fillmore a, { the Capitol, Johnson m the office oi : the president. Arthur at his home in i New York City and Roosevelt in Bui- ! falo thus took up the presidency. i Curious tales. many now almost | legendary and some Of them tinged | with bitterness of partisan feeling oi ! their day. have driltCd down the
 years rom inauguration periods long
 gone by. Much has been written and ! said or the "JeffcTsOn simplicity of
 the third president, vel not all of it appears tu bc well founded on fact. [ It has bccu often repeated that
 Jefferson rode his horse Co his nau
 guration. hitching the animal to al , fence near the Capitol while he went | to take the oath. Investigation by his torianS appears to have established ! however, that It vaS an incident vi-h hl years later. when Jefferson surrcnd