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Inaugural Address Delivered by
the New President.
SEES WORK OF RESTORATION
Task of Victorious Democracy Is to
Squaro Every Process of National
Llfo Wjth Standards Set Up
at the Beginning.
Washington, March 4. President
Wilson's inaugural address, remark
ablo for Its brevity, was llstoued to
with the greatest Interest by the vaBt
throng which was gathered In front
of the capltol's east portico, and at Its
close thero was heard nothing but
pralso for itB oloqueuco and high
moral tone. The address In full was
as follows:
There has beon a change of govern
ment. It began two years ago, when
the house of representatives becamo
Democratic by a decisive majority.
It has now beon completed. Tho sen
ato about to assemble will also be
Democratic. Tho offices of president
and vice-president have been put into
tho hands of Democrats. What does
tho change mean? That is the ques
tion that is uppermost In our minds
today. That la the question I am go
ing to try to answer, in order, if 1
may, to Interpret the occasion.
Purpose of the Nation.
It means much moro than tho mere
success of a party. The success of a
party means little except when tho
nation is using that party for a largo
and definite purpose. No one can
mistake tho purpbso for which the
nation now seeks to use tho Demo
cratic party. It seeks to use It to In
terpret a change in its own plans and
point of view. Some old things with
which we had grown familiar, and
which had begun to creep into the
very habit of our thought and of our
lives, have altered their aspect ns wo
havo latterly looked critically upon
them, with fresh, awakened oyes;
havo dropped their disguises and
shown themselves alien and sinister.
Somo new things, as wo look frankly
upon them, willing to comprehend
their real character, havo come to as
sume the aspect of things long believ
ed in and familiar, stuff of our own
convictions. Wo havo been refreshed
by a new insight into our own life.
We seo that in many things that
llfo is very great. It Is incomparably
great in its material aspects, in its
body of wealth, In the diversity and
sweep of its energy, in the industries
which have been conceived and built
up by the genius of individual men
and the limitless enterprise of groups
of men. It is great, also, very great,
In Its moral force. Nowhere else In
tho world havo noblo men and women
exhibited in moro striking form the
beauty and energy of sympathy and
helpfulness and counsel in their efforts
to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering,
and set tho weak in tho way of
strength and hope. We havo built up,
moreover, a great system of govern
ment, which has stood through a long
ago as in many respects a model for
those who seek to set liberty upon
foundations that will enduro against
fortuitous change, against storm and
accident. Our life contains every
great thing, and contains It In rich
abundance.
Evils That Have Come.
But the evil has como with the
good, and much fine gold has been
corroded. With riches has como in
excusable waste. Wo havo squan
dered a great part of what we might
havo used, and havo not stopped to
conserve tho exceeding bounty of na
ture, without which our genius for en
terprise would havo been worthless
and Impotent, scorning to bo careful,
shamefully prodigal as well as admir
ably efficient. We havo beon proud of
our Industrial achiovements, but wo
havo not hitherto stopped thought
fully enough to count the human cost,
tho cost of lives snuffed out, of enor
glea, overtaxed and broken, tho fear
ful physical and spiritual cost to the
men and women and children upon
whom the dead weight and burden of
It all has fallen pitilessly tho years
through. Tho groans and agony of it
all had not yet reached our ears, the
solemn, moving undertone of- our life,
coming up out of tho mines and fac
tories and out of every home where
the struggle bad its intimate and fa
miliar seat. With tho great govern
ment went many deep secret things
which wo too long delayed to look
into and scrutinize with candid, fear
less oyes. Tho groat government wo
loved has too often been mado uso of
for private and selfish purposes, and
those who used It bad forgotten the
. people.
At last a vision has been vouch
safed us of our llfo as a whole. Wo
see tho bad with tho good, tho do
based and decadent with the sound
und vital. With this vision wo ap
proach now affairs. Our duty is to
cleanse, to reconsider, to restoro, to
correct tho evil without Jmpah-Ing tho
good, to purify and humanize every
process of our common llfo without
weakoning or sentimentalizing it.
There has been something crude and
heartless and unfeeling In our haste to
succeed and bo great. Our thought has
been 'Let every man look out for him
self, let every generation look out for
Itself,' while we reared giant machin
ery which mado it impossible that any
but those who stood at tho levers of
control should have a chance to look
out for thomsolvoB. Wo had not for
gotten our morals. Wo romemborod
well enough that wo had cot up n
policy which waB meant to servo tho
humblest as well as tho most power
ful, with an oyo slnglo to tho stand
ards of Justlco and fair play, and re
membered It with prldo. But wo wcro
very heedloss and In a hurry to bo
great.
Things to Be Altered.
Wo havo como now to tho sober
second thought. Tho scalos of heed
lessness havo fallen from our eyes.
Wo havo mado up our mindB to square
ovcry procoss of our national llfo
again with tho standards wo bo proud
ly set up at tho beginning nnd havo
alwayB carried at our hearts. Our
work lo a work of restoration.
Wo havo Uomlzed with somo degreo
of particularity tho things that ought
to bo altered and hero aro somo of
tho chief items: A tariff which cuts'
ub off from our proper part in tho
commerce of tho world, violates tho
Just principles of taxation, nnd makes
tho government a facllo instrument in
tho hands of prlvato interests; a hank
ing and currency system based upon
tho necessity of the government to
sell Its bonds fifty years ago and per
fectly adapted to concentrating cash
and restricting credits; an industrial
system which, tako It on all Its sides,
financial as well as administrative,
holds capital in leading strings, re
stricts tho liberties and limits tho op
portunities of labor, and exploits with
out renewing or conserving tho nat
ural resources of the country; a body
of agricultural activities never yet
given the efficiency of great business
undertakings or served as it should bo
through tho instrumentality of sclenco
taken directly to the farm, or afforded
tho facilities of credit best suited to
its practical needs; water courses un
developed, wasto places unreclaimed,
foreBts untendod, fast disappearing
without plan or prospoct of renewal,
unregarded waste heaps at every mine.
Wo have studied as perhaps no other
nation has tho most effective means
of production, but wo havo not studied
cost or economy as wo should either
as organizers of industry, as states
men, or as individuals.
Government for Humanity.
Nor havo wo studied and perfected
tho means by which government may
bo put at tho service of humanity, in
safeguarding the health of tho nation,
tho health of its men and its women
and Its children, nB well as their rights
in tho strugglo for existence. This is
no sentimental duty. Tho firm basis
of government 1b Justice, not pity.
These aro matters of justlco. Thero
can be no equality or opportunity, the
first essential of Justlco in tho body
politic, if men and women and chil
dren bo not shielded in their lives,
their very vitality, from tho conse
quences of great Industrial and social
processes which they cannot alter,
control, or singly cope with. Society
must see to it that it does not itself
crush or weaken or damago its own
constituent parts. The first duty of
law is to keep sound tho society it
serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws,
and laws determining conditions of
labor which individuals aro powerless
to determine for themselves aro Inti
mate parts of the very business of Jus
tlco and logal efficiency.
Theso aro somo of tho things wo
ought to do, and not leave tho others
undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-be-neglected,
fundamental safeguarding
of property and of individual right
This Is the high enterprise of tho new
day; to lift everything that concerns
our llfo as a nation to tho light that
shines from tho hearthflro of every
man's conscience and vision of tho
right. It is inconceivable that wo
should do this as partisans; it Is in
conceivable wo should do it In ignor
ance of tho facts as they aro or In
blind haste. We Bhall restoro, not de
stroy. Wo shall deal with our econ
omlo system as it is and as it may
bo modified, not as it might bo if wo
had a clean sheet of paper to write
upon; and step by step we shall mako
it what it should be, in the spirit of
thoso who question thefr own wisdom
and seek counsel and knowledge, not
shallow self-satisfaction or the excite
ment of excursions whither they can
not tell. Justice, and only Justlco,
shall always bo our motto.
Nation Deeply Stirred.
And yet it will bo no cool process
of mere science. Tho nation has been
deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn
passion, stirred by tho knowledge of
wrong, of ideals lost, of government
too often debauched nnd mado an in
strument of ovi.1. Tho feelings with
which wo faco thlB now ago of right
and opportunity sweep across our
heart-strings Uko somo air out of
God's own presence, where justlco and
mercy aro reconciled and tho judge
and tho brother aro ono. Wo know
our task to bo no mere task of politics
but a task which shall search us
through and through, whether wo bo
able to understand our time and tho
need of our people, whether wo bo in
deed their spokesmen nnd interpre
ters, whether wo havo tho puro heart
to comprehend nnd tho rectified will
to chooso our high courso of action.
This is not a day of triumph; it is
a day of dedication. Hero muster, not
tho forces of party, but the forces of
humanity. Men's heants wait upon us;
men's lives hang In the balance; men's
hopes call upon us to say what wo
will do. Who shall llvo up to tho
great trust? Who dares fall to try?
I summon all honest men, all patriotic,
all forward-looking men, to my side.
God helping me, I will not fall them,
if they will but counsel and sustain
me!
Possibly tho era of superstition Is
withering away. Ono of tho great
steamship lines is to start out its ves
sels on Fridays hereafter. Yet tho
canny traveler still refuses to sleep
In upper 18.
EO
Of FINE PARADE
New President Reviews Immense
Inaugural Procession.
AVENUE A GLORIOUS SIGHT
General Wood, Grand Marshal Vet
erans, V.jtlonal Guard and Civil
ians In Line Indians Add
Touch of Picturesque.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington, March 4. Woodrow
Wilson, as ox-prosldont of Princoton,
rodo down Pennsylvania avenuo to
day, nnd later rodo up tho samo avo
nua as president of tho I nltcd States,
and as tho highest officer of govern
ment a fow minutes thereafter re
viewed tho multitudes of soldiers and
(Civilians which, with playing band3
and flying flags, marched by to glvo
him proper official and personal honor.
For sovoral nights Pennsylvania avo
nuo haB been a glory of light. Today
it was a glory of color, movement and
music, hero aro 300,000 Inhabitants
of tho city of Washington. Its tem
porary population la nearer tho half
million mark. Tho abBcntocs from tho
flanking lines of tho parado wcro most.
ly tho policemen, who woro given or
ders to protect tho temporarily vacat
ed residences of tho capital.
Woodrow Wilson asked that "Jeffer
eonlnn simplicity" bo observed in nil
things which had to do with his In
auguration. Tho command for Joffer
Bonian simplicity seems to bo suscep
tible to clastic construction. Thero
was nothing savoring of courtB or roy
alty1, bUt thero waB evidonco In plenty
that the Amorican peoplo lovo uni
forms and all kinds of display which
can find a placo within tho limits of
democratic doflnltlon. It was a good
parado and a great occasion generally.
Throngs Vociferous With Joy.
The inhibition ofjho inaugural bnll
and of tho planned public reception at
tho capltol had no effect as a bar to
tho attendanco at this ceremony of
changing presidents. Masses wero hero
to seo, and other masses wero hero to
march. Thero waB a greater demon
stration whllo tho procession was pass,
ing than thero was four years ago.
Victory had como to a party which
had known nothing liko victory for a
good many years. Tho Joy of posses
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Escorting tho President-Elect to Whlto House at a Previous Inauguration.
ston found expression in steady and
abundantly noisy acclaim.
President Taft and President-elect
Wilson wero escorted down tho avo
nuo by tho National Guard troop of
cavalry of Essex county, Now Jersey.
Tho carrlago in which roao Vice-President-elect
Marshall and Presi
dent pro temporo Bacon of tho United
States senate waa surrounded by tho
members of tbo Black Horso troop of
tho Culver Military academy of Indi
ana. This 1b tho first tlmo In tho his
tory of Inaugural ceremonies that a
guard of honor has escorted a vice
president to tho sceno of bis oath tak
ing. Parade a Monster Affair.
Tho military and tho civil parade, a
hugo affair which stretched its
length for miles along tho Washington
streots, formed on tho avenucB radiat
ing from tho capltol. After President
elect Wilson had become President
Wilson and Vice-President-elect Mar
shall had become VIco-ProsIdent
Marshall, they went Btralghtway from
tho capltol to tho Whlto Houso nnd
thence shortly to tho rovlowlng stand
In tho park at tho mansion's front.
Tho parado, with MaJ. Gen. Leonard
Wood, United States array, as Ub
grand marshal, started from tho capl
tol grounds to movo along the avonuo
to tho Whlto House, whero It was to
pass ln'rovlew. Tho trumpeter sound
ed "forward march" at tho Instant tho
signal was flashed from tho Whlto
house that In fifteen minutes tho new
ly elected president and commander-in-chief
of tho armies and navies of
tho United States would bo ready to
revlow "his troops."
It was thought that tho parado might
lack somo of the picturesque features
which particularly appealed to tho
peoplo on former occasions. Thero
woro Indiana and rough riders horo
not only when Roosevelt was Inaugu
rated, but when ho went out of oHlco
nnd was. succeeded by William H.
Taft. The parade, however, In honor
of Mr. WUson seemed to bo pictur
esque enough in its features to appeal
to tho multitudes. Thoy certainly
made nolso encigh over It.
The procession was la divisions,
with Uoneral Wood ns tho grand
marshal of tho wholo affair and hav
ing a placo at Ub bond. Tho dtsplay,
In tho words Invariably used on llko
occasions, was "imprcsslvo and bril
liant" Regulars In First Division.
Tho regulars of tho country's two
armed sorvlco nnturally had tho right
of way. MaJ. Gen. W. W. Wothor
spoon, United States army, was In
command of tho first division, in
which marchod tho sojdlora and Bailors
and marlnoB from tbo posts and tho
navy yarda within a day's rldo of
Washington. Tho West Point endota
and tho midshipmen from tho nnval
ncadomy nt Annapolis, competent bo
yond other corps In manual nnd In
ovolution, tho futurb goncrnls nnd ad
mirals of tho army, had placo In tho
first division.
All branches of thd army sorvlco
woro roprcBontod In tho body of regu
lars engineers, artillery, cavalry, In
fantry and signal corps. Tho sailors
and marines from half a dozen battlo
shipB rolled nlong amnrtly in tho wako
of their landsmen brethren.
Tho Nntlonnl Guard division follow
ed tho division of regulars. It was
commanded by Brig. Gen. Albert L.
Mills, United States army, who woro
tho medal of honor given him for con
Bplcuoua personal gallantry nt tho bat
tlo of San Juan hill. General Mills is
tho chief of tho militia division of tho
United States war department.
Tho entlro National Guard of Now
Jersoy was In lino, and Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia,
Georgia, Malno and North Carolina
woro represented by bodies oi civilian
soldiers. Cadets from mnny of tho
prlvnto aud state milltnry schools of
tho country had a placo in tho militia
division. .
Veterana and Civilians.
Tho third division of tho purndo was
compoaod of Grand Army of tho Re
public veterans, members of tho Union
Veteran leaguo and of tho Spanish
war organizations. Gen. Jnmos E
Stuart of Chicago, a veteran of both
tho Civil and tho Spanish wars, waa
In command.
Robert N. Harper, chief marshal o
tho civic forcos, commanded tho fourth
division. Under his charge wero po
litical organizations from all parts o
tho country, among thorn bolng Tauv
many, represented by 2,000 of iti
braves, and Domocratlc clubs from
Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Bnltl
moro and other cities.
Thoy put tho Amorican Indiana lntq
tho civilian division. Tho fact that!
thoy woro in war paint nnd feathers
helped out in plcturesquoness and did
nothing to disturb tho peace. Mem
bers of tho United Hunt Clubs of
Amorlca rodo In this division. Their
pink coats and tholr high hats ap
parently woro not thought to Jar
"Jofforsonlnn simplicity" from its
seat Pink coats woro worn on tho
hunting field In Jefferson's day and in
Jefferson's stato.
Thero wero 1,000 Princeton studonta
in tho civic section of tho parado.
Many of them woro orango nnd black
sweaters and they wero somewhat
noisy though porfoctly propor. Stu
dents from seventeen other colleges
and universities woro among tho
marchers.
Spectators Cheer Constantly.
All nlong Pennsylvania avenuo, fiom,
tho capltol to a point four block bo-
yond tho White IIoubo, tho spoctntorB
woro massed in lines ton deep. Tho
cheering waa constant and Woodrow
Wilson cannot complain that tho cere
monies attending his induction into
offico wero not accompanied by ap
parently heartfelt acclaim of tho poo
pie over whom ho is to rulo for at,
least four years.
Every window In every building on
Pennsylvania avenuo which Is not oc
cupied for offico purposes was rented
weeks ago for a good round Bum of
money. Every room overlooking tho
marching parado was taken by aa
many spectators as cound find a vant
age point from which to peer through
tho window panes. Tho roofs of tho
buildings wero covered with persons
willing to stand for hours in a March
day to seo tho wonderB of tho inaugu
ral parado, and many of them partic
ularly glad of an opportunity to go
homo and to say that after many yeajra
waiting thoy had seen a Democratic
president Inaugurated.
Tho parado passed tho rovlowlng
stand of President Wilson, who stood
uncovered whllo tho marchers saluted.
When tho laBt oiganlzatlon had
marched by dusk waB coming down.
Tho hundreds of thousands of olectrlo
lampB wero lighted and Washington
at night becamo along Us main thor
oughfaro ns bright as Washington at
day. Tho loss of tho attraction of tho
Inaugural ball was compensated for
by tho finest dtsplay of fireworks, It la
said, this city has over known.
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Incidents That Marked the Day
in Former Years.
WASHINGTON'S OATH-TAKMG
New York Scene of His Induction
Story of Jefferson's Simplicity a
Myth "People's Day" When
Jackson Took Office.
By E. W. PICKARD.
Woodrow Wilson is tho twenty-seventh
man to bo inaugurated president
of tho Unltod States, but tho twenty
fifth to bo inaugurated In Washington.
Gcorgo Washington took tho oath of
offico in Now York and John Adams
in Philadelphia. Moreover, tho Fa
ther of His Country was not Inaugu
rated on March 4.
Arriving at Ellzabothtown Point,
N. J., on April 23, ho entered a bargo
rowed by 12 pilots clad In whlto,
nnd passed through tho Kill von Kull
Into Now York harbor, which wns full
of all manner of craft gaily decorated
and loaded with cheering crowds. Tho
Spanish man of wnr Galveston broko
out tho colors of all nations, and
fired a snluto of 13 guns, to which tho
Amerlcnn frlgato North Carolina re
sponded. Arrival at New York.
As Washington stoppod ashoro at
Murray's wharf tho gunB of tho Bnt
tory roared out tholr salute and Gov.
Gcorgo Clinton and many mombers of
congress snluted tho first prosldont
Ho was taken to tho reatdonco of
Samuol Osgood, and for nu entlro
week thoro wnB rovolry throughout
tho city.
Finally, on April 30, all "was ready
for tho inauguration. Washington
was escorted to Federal hall, then
tho capltol, which stood on tho slto of
tho present sub-treasury nt Wall und
Broad streets. Tho streots had boon
filled slnco sunrho with waiting
crowds, aud tho enthusiasm was in
tense. In tho senate chnmber Wash
ington was Joined by Adams, Knox,
Hamilton, von Steuben and a few oth
ers, and all of them appeared on tho
balcony. Robert It. Livingston, chan
cellor of Now York, administered tho
oath and cried "Long llvo Georgo
Washington, president of tho United
States," whereupon thoro broko out
a mighty tumult of choorlng, boll-ringing
and tho nolso of cannon. Re
turning to tho senato chamber, Pres
ident Washington rend his Inaugural
addrcBB and tho history of tho
United States under tho constitu
tion began.
' Myth About Jefferson.
If you aro a good Domocrut, no
doubt you bellovo that Thomas Jeffer
son rodo unattended to tho capltol on
horseback, tlod his horso to tho
fence, nnd was inaugurated with loss
ceremony than would attend tho tak
ing of offico by a koopor of a dog
pound. Such Is tho old story, but It
is puro myth and Is first found in
a book of travels In tho Unltod
Slates written by John Davis, an Eng
lishman. Bavin asserted that ho was
an cyo-wltncss of tho simple ceremony
which ho described, but It has beon
proved that ho was not lu Wash
ington at tho tlmo.
Tho Inauguration of Joffor3on, which
marked tho defeat of tho Federalist
party of Hamilton, Washington,
Adams and Jay, was the first to take
placo In Washington. The newly es
tablished national capital, thon but
a fow months old, contained only 3,000
Inhabitants, many of thorn negroos;
tho houses wero mostly huts and tho
streets muddy roads. Tho big event
was thus described In tho Philadelphia
Aurora of March 11; 3801:
"At an early hour on Wctefay,
March 4, tho city of Washington $ re
sented a spcctnclo of uncommon aul-lt-ntlon
occasioned by tho addition to
Its usual population of a largo body
of citizens from tho adjacent districts.
A discharge from tho company of
Washington artlllory UBhored In tho
day, and about ono o'clock tho Alex
andria company of riflemen with tho
company of artillery paraded in front
of tho President's lodgings. At 12
o'clock Thomajs Jefferson, attended by
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a numbor of his follow citizens, among
whom woro mnny mombora of con
gress, repaired to tho capltol. His
dress was, ns usual, that of a plain
citizen, without nny dtstlnctivo badge
of offico. Ho entered tho capltol un
der a dlschargo from tho artlllory. As
soon ns ho wlthdrow a dlschargo from
tho artlllory was mado. Tho romaln
dor of tho da waB dovotod to pur
Pobcb of festivity, and nt night thero
was a pretty genoral Illumination."
Jackson Almost Mobbed,
When Andrew Jackson wbb olected
in tho fall of 1828 tho peoplo of tho
west and tho radical olemonts of tho
south scored n triumph nnd ho waa
hailed as a "man of tho pooplo." This
character was emphasized on tho day
of his Inauguration tho following
March, for novor beforo had such a
hugo motley throng gathered la Wash
lngton. Jackson's wlfo had died not
long boforo, and ho nskod that tho
ceromonlos bo mado very simple, but
tho masses woro too hilarious to hood
tho request. Tho woathor was pleas
ant and tho caBt front of tho capltol
waB used for tho flrBt tlmo for tho In
auguration. In front of it surged
10,000 porsons who wero rostralnod
only by a great Iron chain. Jackson
rodo to tho capltol on a whlto horso
and went through tho ceremonies with
dignity, and startod back to tho Whlto
Houso. Thon began his troubles, for
tho peoplo broko looso wllh a ven
geance "Tho prcsldont wns literally pursued
by a motloy concourno of people, rid
ing, running, hoUorBkolto', striving
who should first gain admlttanco Into
tho oxccutlvo mansion, whero it was
understood that refreshments would
bo distributed," wrote a contempo
rary, Mrs. Samuol Harrison Mmlth. In
tholr'vmnd rush tho crowds amashod
furnlturo and dishes nnd irelzed the
food ns If thoy woro Btnrvlng. "The
confusion becamo moro and moro nl
palling. At ono moment tho presi
dent, who hnd rotroatod until ho waa
proBsed against tho wall of tho apart
mont, could only be socured ngalnst
Borloua danger by n numbor of gen
tlomen Unking arms and forming
thomsolvoB Into a barrier. It was
thon that tho wlndowB woro thrown
open, and tlio living throng found an
outlet. It was tho pooplo'a day, tha
pcoplo's proBldont, and tho people
would rulo."
Taken figuratively, that might nof
bo ho poor a description of tho plight
of presidents hi theso later days.
Exposure Killed Harrison.
For 12 years tho Democrats con
trolled tho destinies of tho country,
nnd thon tho Whigs nlcctod William
Honry Harrison, who was Inaugurated
March 4, 1841. By this timo trans
portation was mado easlor by tha
building of railways and tho crowd
that flocked to Washington was Im
mense. It was much better behaved
than that which "honored" Jackson,
but It was hungry for offices.
Cold, wintry blastB swept tho streots
of Washington that March day, and
Harrison, alroady old and rather
feeble, rodo hla whlto horso without
cloak or overcoat, and with his hat
off In saluto to tho choorlng crowda.
Tho lino of march wns unprecodent
odly long, and so waB tho Inaugural
address, and then tho president led
tho procosslon back to tho Whlto
House. Tho oxpoBuro wns too much for
him and within ono month ho waa
dead.
Lincoln's First Inauguration.
Immensely dramatic was tho Orat
Inauguration of Abrnhnm Lincoln in
1801. From tho day of his election
threats against his llfo wero numer
ous, and detectives discovered and
foiled nn organized plot to assusslnnta
him on his wny to Washington. Tho
big bodies of troopB that had been
omployod nt former Inaugurations
merely to add pomp to t!ho occasion
now wcro used for tbo protection of
tho president. As ho rodo to tho
capltol In a carriage ho was preceded
by a compnny of sappera and minors;
a doublo file of cavalry rodo on each
side, and In tho rear wero Infantry
nnd riflemen. On houso tops aud In
wlndowB nil along Pennsylvania avo
nuo woro poBt'vtf riflemen.
Tho day had opera! cloudy, chilly
and dismal, but as tho president step
ped forward to tako tho oath from
tho aged Chief JuBtlco Taney tho sun
burst through tho clouds and shono
full on tho bowed head of tho man
who was to glvo up his llfo for tho
country ho lovod. Llucoln himself
noticed UiIb "sunburst" and drew
from It a happy augury.
