The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-13
TRADITION KEPT
IN INAUGURATION
Coolidge and Dawes Take
Oath of Ofice-Millions
Hear Address by Radio.

Washington. = President Coolidge
was inaugurated with one of the
simplest ceremonies of a hundred
years. Almost at the same time Vice
President Dawes also took the oath
Of office.
For the first time, not only the
thousands who gathered in Washing
ton heard President deliver his in
augural address, but millions through
out the United States, and probably
many elsewhere, heard the address by
radio. President Coolidge spoke to
probably the greatest audience, seen
and unseen, that ever has been adj
dressed by any other man in the his
tory Of the world.
With all it's studied simplicity and
lack Of display, which was at the
express direction of the President,
the ceremony was in marked contrast
with the event of nineteen months
ago, when, reused from sleep by news
of the sudden death of President
Harding, Mr.. Coolidge took the oath
of office administered by his father
in the glow of an oil lamp in Yer
mont farmhouse.
The only vice president since Roose-
Welt to succeed to the office by popular
election, President Coolidge renewed
his. oath before Chief Justice Taft,
the only President to take it before
a former President.
Ceremony Follows Tradition
The ceremony was the traditional
one, and was carried out on a plat
form built at the east front of the
capitol, before the great steps leading
to the entrance at the middle of the
building. spot selected in the his
toric compromise of generations ago
when the house and senate each con-
tended that the Inauguration should
take place within its own precincts.
While congress was winding up its
eleventh-hour business, the official
congressional committee called at
the White House to escort the Presi-
dent to the capitol. This was soon
after eleven o'clock.
Pennsylvania avenue, despite the
restricted program which cut down
the show, was packed as the Presi-
dent, escorted by a troop of cavalry
and guarded by secret service men,
passed along.
At the capitol he went at once to
the Presidents room, adjoining the
senate chamber, and busted himself
disposing of acts of congress.
The prelude to the inaugural pro-
cession- for the Presidents journey
to the capitol is always the first part
Of the actual ceremony-was quite
different from that Of four years ago,
for President Coolidge had no out
going President to accompany him.
Changes of Four Years Recalled
Four years ago Warren Gamaliel
Harding, a picture of robust health,
so soon to pass away, rode with the
pathetic figure of Woodrow Wilson,
and. with deprecatory gestures to the
crowd, stilled cheers intended for him,
out of consideration for the already
dying man who rode In the carriage
beside him. Little did anyone dream
that before another Inauguration had
rolled around Harding would have
preceded Wilson to the great beyond.
While President Coolidge was at
work in the Presidents room at the
capitol, Vice President-Elect Dawes
and his party arrived and took their
places in the vice presidents room,
where they were greeted by Senator
Cummins of Iowa, who since Mr.. Cool
idge became President has presided
over the senate. There Mr.. Dawes
and his party awaited the beginning
of the vice presidential inaugural cere-
monies in the senate chamber, which