The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-01-15
RITCHIE INAUGURATION A
TRIUMPH FOR RULERS
Continued from Page One


And in this auspicous manner,
midst the blare of trumpets, the beat
ing of the drums and the enthusiast
tic plaudits of the citizens, he entered
the capital of the realm, over which
he had held almost undisputed rule
for eleven years, entrusted with a
continuance of his power, for no one
knows how long.
The procession of official dignitar-
les, prominent citizens, friends and
relatives, as we'll as subservient, con-
quered foes, entered the ancient State
House through the ancient doors
marched in stately and measured style
across the ancient colonial rotunda,
out into the more modern marble halls
and into the beautiful Senate cham
Der, to inaugurate for the fourth time
the popular choice as Governor of
Maryland. In the procession were the
able and dignifed judges of the Court
of Appeals, headed by the Chief Judge
in their black gowns, their scholarly
and intelligent faces set as becomes
the men on whom rests the final in
terpretation of the laws, and whose
decisions settle for veal or woe the
happiness and often the fate of the
people.
Look down on this procession
which possibly marks the opening of
new era in Maryland, where the
portraits of Charles Carroll of Car
rolton, Thomas Stone, Samuel Chase
and William Paca, signers of the Dec
laration of Independence in 1776-
for more than a century the portraits
of these eminent patriots have gazed
down upon the predecessors of Gov
ernor Richie, as they had entered
the venerable Maryland shrine of pat
riotism, to which he alone of all had
been chosen four times. Two of his
predecessors had been twice honoreo
for this place, namely: Thomas Lee
of Frederick, in 1779, and again in
1892, and Robert Bowie in 1903 and
again in 1911, both of whom were
chosen by the General Assembly
which in those times and up until 1885
elected the Governors-and the pres
ent Governor is the only one of the
long list of twenty-five State Execu-
tives who have held the position dur
ing the past century who has been
chosen for more than one term. That
he has kept the faith and performed
his duty to the satisfaction of the peo-
pie is clearly evident from the fact
that for four successive elections the
public confidence has been expressed
by large majorities.
If the spirits of the departed are
permitted to view the lives of their
successors, it is not out of reason to
believe that the predecessors of the
determined and highly competent
gentleman, who again has been SC
greatly honored by the people, may
have been present Wednesday to view
with interest the unprecedented event
which took place in the ancient
shrine, where at intervals they were
privileged to reign in the years now
long past and gone. Out of all the
more than half hundred noted men
who have reigned at Annapolis since
the foundation of State Governorment
under Thomas johnson, Of Frederick.
in 1776, two alone remain here to look
back on the past, namely, Phillips
Lee Goldsborough and Emerson G.
Harrington, both of whom are natives
of Dorchester county and both of
whom served the Commonwealth with
credit to themselves and the people.
And it is not out of place to say
here that since 1T76 Dorchester has
given to the Commonwealth six out
of the more than fifty gentlemen who
have occupied the chief chair of State
during that>time.
The procession entered the Senate
Chamber, on the throne of which was
seated the President of the Senate,
the Chief Judge of the Court of APP
peals and other official dignitaries.
The certificate of election was read,
and the Chief Judge administered the
ancient, Constitutional oath to the
Governor-elect. The cold test book,
which contains the names of his pred
ecessors, was signed and Albert c.
Richie succeeded himself for the
fourth time as Governor Of the State
where his paternal ancestors had been
noted for several generations among
the ablest citizens of the Common
wealth.
The Senate and the Governor, the
distinguished guests and the crowd,
then moved across the State House
to the hall of the House of Delegates
where the Executive delivered his in
augural address.