The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-02-04

have died in office. Three were as
| sassinated Lincoln, James
A. Garfield and William Mckinley.
Three died Of natural causes-Wil-
liam Henry Harrison, Zachary Tay-
Tor and Warren G. Harding.
They were the 9th, the 18th, the
10th, the goth, the 25th, and the
29th, in the presidential line. Figur-
ing Grover Cleveland as one, instead
OF as two as in most records, it will
be noted that Death struck with
startling regularity at every fourth
man to hold the executive seat since
1914 with the single exception of the
interval between the deaths of Har-
rison and Taylor. BY a likewise
strange coincidence Harrison elected
in 1910, Lincoln in 1860, Garfield in
1908, Mckinley in 1900 and Harding
in 1920-each 20 years apart-Wefe
stricken down in office.
AS another coincidence consider
Monday, Thursday and Friday as the
fatal inauguration days for the pres
idents who died in Office. Taylor and
Lincoln were, inauguratcd on Monday,
Harrison and Mckinley on Thursday
and Garfield and Harding on Friday.
Other presidents have been indicted
into the presidential office on Mon
day Thursday and Friday. Ruther-
ford B. Hayes and /njamip Harri-
son were inaugurated on Monday,
Washington, Grant, and Taft were
sworn in on Thursday. John Quincy
! Adams and Franklin Pierce became
president on Friday.
Inaugurated on Sunday.
Woodrow Wilson was the only
president to be inaugurated on Sun
day. 1t was at the commencement of
his second term and during the criti-
cal period just preceding the great
World War. His term of Office end
| ed at noon on March 4. 1t was Sun
| DAY and rather than leave the nation
technically without chief executive
| for single day he took the oath of
afternoon, March 4. lD17. Washing
ten, Monroe. Pierce aud Hayes were
born on Friday. Ty!'r, Polk and
Pierce died on Friday. Lincoln and
| Mckinley were shot or Friday. As
another coincidence, consider that
Taylor, Garfield and Harding were
each born in November. Harrison
and Lincoln were born in February
Mckinley, born on January 30, 1843
| came close to it.
Thomas Jefferson was the frs
president to be inaugurated in Wash.
ington. George Washington * tn.
oath in New York City, then the ma,
tional capital. Delay in Inaugural
ton arrangements and the difficult,
Cf travel from Mount Vernon
brought the inauguration on April 80
When the hour for the administra.
ton of the presidential oath arrived
it was found that no Bible had been
provided and one had to be borrowed
from the Masonic temple across the
/ way.
President Garfield's first act after
taking the presidential oath was tt
kiss his mother. 80
John Quincy Adams, sixth presi
dent, was the son of John Adams
second president. William Henri.
Won Bernstorff, the German Ambass
| ador, his passports. Everybody kneY
it meant war, that the conflict was
close, at hand.
Meanwhile. a happy domestic event
in the Presidents life served te
tighten. the burden Of his officia
cares. He was married to- Mrs. Edith
Boiling Gait, the widow of Wash
ington merchant, who Immediately
became his constant companion and
hconfidente.
i Internal Affairs Hail
Internal affairs in the = United
States early in 1917 were in a state
of 4restiveness verging on turmoil
Enemy propagandists were busy might
and day. The increasing cost OF
living was of grave concern to wage
earners. Scores of strikes in indus
trial plants and on railroads were
fomented by Austro- German plotters
financed by Count Won Bernstorfi
and aids Of DR.. Constantin Theodor
Dumba, the Austro- Hungarian AM
bassador, who had been sent back
to Vienna,
The United States never had been
a military nation. Her regular army
establishment of $4,000 men seemed
pitifully weak when England and
France We're sending millions of
fighters to the battle line. President
Wilson at once urged the passage