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SWORN IN OFFICE WILSON AND MARSHALL ARE INAUGURATED IN PRESENCE OF THRONGS ? The Democrats Takes the lleins of Government Again After TwentyKiglit Years by the Inauguration of Woodrow Wilson and Tlios. U. Marshall Into Ollice Tuesday. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, was inaugurated Tuesday as President of the United States; Thomas It. Marshall, of Indiana, its Vice?President; Democracy, the Vehicle of its destiny. Under the dome of the nation's Capitol, in the presence of a countless concourse of his fellow-citiasents, the new President raised a hand toward a prophetic sun that burst through dissolving clouds and pronounced the occasion a day of dedication; not of triumph. It was an intensely human, preoedent-breaking inauguration. With members of his chosen Cabinet surrounding him, the Justices of the Supremo Court before him, his wife and daughters actually ckincing for joy on the platform below, and William Howard Taft, Ex-President of the nation, at his side, the new President shouted a summons to all "honest, patriotic, forward-looking men" to aid him, extending the premise that he would not fail them hi the guidance of their Government. While the President's concluding inaugural words were tossing in tumultuous waves of applause, the retiring President clasped his hand and enlisted as a patriotic servant in the l._ 1 I ? "My. rilll Its U1 JJI lVillU Clli/iCliniuj;. atx i President," said Mr. Taft, his face beaming with a smile, "I wish you a successful administration and the carrying out of your aims. We will all be behind you." "Thank you," said President Wilson, and he turned to shake the hand of his Secretary of State, William J. Bryan. There they stood?Taft, standardbearer of a vanquished party after sixteen years of power; Bryan, persistent plodder of progressive Democracy, thrice defeated, accepting a commission from a new chieftain; and, Wilson, the man of the hour, victorious, mustering, as he expressed it, "not the forces of the party, but the forces of humanity." It was a political picture far beyond imagination of a few years gone by, a setting that stirred the souls of the assembled hosts, whose cheering at the scene seemed actually to reverberate from the distant Virginia hills. The military and civic pageant that followed this climax of the historic day was more than five hours nnsfli 11 & in review. Dearine: the Cani tol Hill at two o'clock in the afternoon, the last of the marching thousands had not saluted the President until, long after darkness had fallen. President Wilson stood for more than an hour under tho glare of myriads of brilliant electric lights as he greeted thousands in the long line, among them the host or Princeton students, who, as they passed before him, shouted a hearty greeting that he never can forget. The music of the bands, the glitter of the uniforms and all the enthusiasm that had gone before him had stirred him again and again, but the sight of this cheering student army was to President Wilson an inspiration that brought cherished memories and joyous tears. Not long after tho boys from Old Nassau had passed he turned from the human panorama and entered tho White House to grasp the wheel of the ship of state. Ceremonies in the Senate chamber which marked the dying of the 62nd and the vitalizing of the new 63rd Congress, embracing the inauguration of Vice-President Marshall and the swearing in of the Senators-elect, were never more impressive. Though delayed somewhat by the course of legislation necessitating turning back half an hour the hands of the clock, the interest was tense. The procession into the chamber of members of the House, ambassadors and ministers of foreign countries in all their brilliant regalia, the Chief Justice and Justices of the Supreme Court, in their sombre robes, the Vice-President-elect, President Taft, and the President-elect, side by side, escorted by the members or the congressional inaugural committee, was an inspiring spectacle. When all had taken their places and the members of the new cabinet had been seated in the rear of the room, Mr. Marshall took the oath of office, administered by Senator Gallinger, at exactly 12:34 o'clock, lie then delivered his inaugural address, in which he referred to the Senate as the "blinders of the governmental harness". Then began the procession from the Senate, winding to the greajt am- 1 phitheatre at the east front of the capitol. After Chief Justice White, followed by the other justices of the supreme court, had entered the inaugural stand, President Taft and Pres- < ident-elect Wilson appeared In the < doorway of the capitol. Their pres- < nee was the signal for cheers from < the crowd assembled in the wide es- c planade and the huge grandstand, and perched on the roof of the Capitol from one end to the other. Reaching the stand the presidentelect stood for several moments with head bared, acknowledging the plaudits of the crowd. Then with the president, the chosen members of his cabinet, the Vice-President-elect, the Justices and Speaker Clark, he seated himself to await the solemn ceremony. Promptlly at 1:35 o'clock, when Chief Justice White arose to administer the oath and Woodrow Wilson stood with right hand upraised to heaven, the most human touching picture of the day asserted itself. Mrs. Wilson could not see well from her seat. As spryly as a little girl, she moved her chair to the side of the rostrum and climbed upon it with the assistance of Lieut. Rogers, the president's naval aide. Grasping the railing, she stood there gazing at th* president as he kissed the 'Bible and she remained standing until his ad dress was concluded. Then the Misses Wilson joined her. When the new president swore to uphold and defend the constitution he stooped and kissed the open Bible held in the hands of James D. 'Maher, deputy clerk of the supreme court. His hand touched a page, turned at random, and fell upon the 119th Psalm. When congratulations were over, the Justices of the Supreme Court, members of the retiring and incoming Cabinets and others shaking the hand of the new Chief Magistrate, he was ushered to the carriage in front of the stand. Mr. Taft followed him into the carriage. His smile had not worn off and it radiated over the crowd as the new President doffed his hat to the populace when the procession started. There was hardly a minute during the new President's ride from the Capitol to tlie White House that he did not hear a constantly rising chorus of cheers. As his carriage passed up Pennsylvania avenue and those in each section of the densely crowded thoroughfare spied the visage of the new President, the outbursts seemed to increase in volume and enthusiasm. The mass of humanity that crowded its way within seeing distance of the Presidential carriage could not be pictured by numerical estimates for there was hardly any space on the avenue or its tributary streets which was not filled. The buildings along the way seemed fairy hidden by their human coverings, and the especially built street stands were crowded to over-flowing. Amid it all was a proed the open Bible, held in the hands fusion of decoration, a vari-colored and elaborate, so that the buildings along the way were fairly hidden behind it all. President Wilson doffed his hat continually in recognition of prolonged ovations. The ride from the ^ * - i White House to tne uapnoi was unm but spectacular. The Essex troop, of New Jersey, led the Presidential carriage, while the Cullver cadet troop , of Indiana, escorted Mr. Marshall. Although the crowds were not as demonstrative on this occasion as they were on the return journey from the Capitol to the White House, there was a cheering tribute all along the line. It was nearly 3'clock before President Wilson returned to the White House, where he partook of a buffet luncheon with 250 invited guests, including members of the new Cabinet and ofTicial folk generally. STREWN WITH FLOWERS. ? Graves of Wilson's Nfother and Father Were Decorated. On the day that Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated president of the United States, the graves of his father and mother. Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Wil son, which are in (he cemetery of the First Presbyterian church in Columbia, were covered with (lowers, placed (here by members of (he ladies' society of the church. Dr. Wilson filled the chair of pastoral theology and sacred rhetoric at (he Columbia Theological Seminary from 1870-74. He died at Princeton, where he was living with his son, Woodrow, who was president of Princeton University, and his body was brought to Columbia for burial. Mr. Wilson accompanied his father's body to Columbia. The president's mother died years before her husband. Killed by Passenger Train. Peter W. Boykin, a son of Mr. Hardy Boykin, a farmer living near Mayesville, was killed Sunday afternoon when he was struck by a special passenger train near Chandler's siding, about five miles from Sumter. At the time he was struck, he was sitting on the track and apparently made no effort to pet out of the way of the oncoming engine. The train was a special running from Augusta to Washington and carrying troops to the inauguration. ? Edison Refuses a .Million. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, was offered $1,000,000 for the rights of his new talking machinery invention, but Attorney Brady, who represented the capitalists, said 'Mr. Edison only laughed at the offer. Declared Guilty of Murder. C. P. Rushing, a white man, was 3onvicted of murder at Chesterfield >n Wednesday and sentenced to be dectrocuted April 18. Rushing murlered his wife while he was very trunk. HIS LAST DAY A BUSY ONE! TAFT W EliOOMES WIIjSON TO THE WHITE HOUSE. The Outgoing President Received Many Callers, Among Them Being William Jennings Bryan. President Taft's last day in the White House was one of his busiest. As a working day it did not lasr more than ten hours, but it was crowded with unusual events, full of incidents that fall to the man wh# sits in the White House and crowned with pleasantries. The President shook hands with several hundred citizens and otlicials of the government; received scores of telegrams from friends all over the world; signed his name to pile after pile of pictures and letters and held three receptions. lie quit the room he has occupied for four years in the executive office with a smile and without a backward glance. He met his old-time friends of the Washington diplomatic corps and the Justices of the Supreme Court in the White House, and last of all, he gave the first formal welcome in that mansion to the President-elect and Mrs. Wilson. Monday night the President and j Mrs. Taft were guests at a private dinner given by Miss Mabel Pojirdman. All together, as 'Mr. Taft told visitors Monday, it was one of the happiest days of his life and the regret he may have had over things he was unabl? to accomplish was more than offset by the remembrance of the pleasant paths he has traversed. The President received the President-elect and Mrs. Wilson at six o'clock Monday night. Col. Spencer Cosby, chief aide to the President had sent his own touring car to bring them through the crowded thorough fares. A few hundred persons gathered in front of the mansion, cheered when they recognized the next President and his wife. On the bronze seal of the United States, imbedded deep In the marble door of the main hallway, President Taft was waiting to receive his guests. He offered his arm to Mrs. Wilson and escorted the next "First Lady of the Land" to the quiet of the Green room. Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen, the only members of the retiring President's family in town, came down the stairway a few moments later and the President-to-be, his wife and the Presidents who quit Tuesday, and his wife and daughter, talked alone. William Jennings Bryan was one of the last distinguished visitors who saw the President in his oilice. Col. Bryan came unannounced late in the afternoon. "Here's something I | ant to show you," said the President, as he grasped the visitor by the arm and led him to the Cabinet room. "This," continued the President, "is the Cabinet room." Mr. Brryan sat down in the chair of the Secretary of State, but made no comment. "I just dropped in to say farewell," he told the newspaper men as he departed. "I have many Republican friends as well as those in the Democratic party." Before he left his office for the last time the President shook hands with the members of the executive office staff. NEGRO SHOT TO DEATH. Another Seriously Wounded by a Mob in Georgia. A report from Barney, Brooks County, Ga., says that a mob took Warren and George 'McDonald, negroes, from the calaboose Sunday night for the purpose of lynching them. Warren was round later by a sheriff and posse, shot through the head, body and leg, but still alive. He told the posse that the mob had told him to run and had shot him while running. He fell, pretending to be dead, and the mob then beat him and left him for dead. His companion. ho says, was shot to death and thrown into tno river, ino negroes were charged with being drunk and shooting into the residence of John McCoy Saturday night. The wounded negfo was taken to Quitruau. ? ? Baby Killed l>y Kngine. William Percy Woodall, the nineteen-months-old son of 'Mr. and Mrs. Paul Woodall, of Hapeville> (la., was run over and killed by a Central passenger train about eight o'clock Monday morning, while the hoy's mother stood on the porch of the house 100 yards from the scene of the tragedy, powerless to prevent it. ? Medical Moot. Is Held. The National Association of American Medical Colleges began its annual convention at Chicago Monday in the Congress Hotel. The sessions were addressed by medical experts and 'ecchers from various parts of the country, including several professors from the University of Chocigo. ? ? ? ? The Bloody Work CJoes On. A dispatch from Mexico City says seventeen Zapatistas who carried their vocation of looting and murder to the edge of the federal district, eight miles from the capital, were capture and executed. PPP9 i MEAN HOWLING MOB - ' INSULT WOMEN HABCHING WOMEN IN CAPITOL CITY INSULTED WOMEN WEEP ? Tiinc of March Allocked by Seething Multitude Who OiYer Many Indignities, Hostile Demonstrations Fiequently Bordering 011 Iliot, Until United States Soldiers Forced l*ntou.ra I? I "I M. m M\?VI Wl Five thousand women, marching in the woman suffrage pagean 'Monday, practically fought thou* way foot by foot up Pennsylvania avenue, a surging mob that completely defied the Washington police, swamped the marchers and broke their procession into little companies. The women, trudging stoutly along under great difficulties, were able to completo their march only when troops of cavalry from Fort Meyer were rushed into Washington to take charge of Pennsylvania avenue. No inauguration has produced such scenes, which, in many instances, amounted to nothing less than riots. Later, in Continental Hall, the women turned what was to have been a suffrage demonstration into an indignation meeting, in whic% the Washington police were roundly denounced for their inactivity and resolutions were passed calling upon President-elect Wilsofl and the incoming Congress to make an investigation and locate the responsibility for the indignities the marchers suffered. The scenes which attended the entry of "Gen." Rosalie Jones and her "hikers" on Thursday, when the bedraggled women had to fight their way up Pennsylvania avenue, swamped bv a mob. were repeated Monday, but upon a vastly larger scale. The marchers had to fight their way from the start and took more than an hour in making the first ten blocks. Many of the women were in tears under Ihe Jeers and insults that lined the route. Although stout wire ropes had been stretched up and down the length of Pennsylvania avenue from the Peace monument to the Mall, behind the White House, the enormous crowds that gathered early to obtain points of vantage overstepped them or crawled beneath. Apparently no effort was made to drive back the trespassers in the early hours, with the result that when the parade started it faced at almost every hundred yards a solid wall of humanity. On the whole it was a hostile crowd through which the women marched. Miss Inez Milholland, herald of the procession, distinguished herself by aiding in riding down a mob that blocked the way and threatened to disrupt the parade. Another woman member of the "petticoat cavalry" struck a hoodlum a stinging blow across the face with her riding crop in reply to a scurrilous remark as sho was passing. The mounted police seemed powerless to stem the tide of humanity. A group of hoodlums gathered in front of the reviewing stand in which sat Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen Taft and a half dozen invited guests rrom the White House. They kept up a running fire of causting comments. Apparently no effort was made to remove them and, evidently disgusted, the White House party left .before the procession had passed in its halting and interrupted journey toward Continental Hall. The tableaux on the steps of the treasury'building, framed in the great columns and broad stairway of the Government treasury house, were begun when tho parade started from its rendezvous at the base of the Capitol. Heautiful in coloring and grouping, the dramatic symbolication of women's aspirations for political freedom was completed long before the head of the parade was in sight. In their thin dresses and bare arms the players stood shivering for more than an hour and finally they were forced to seek refuge within the building. Around the treasury department the crowds >vero massed eo tightly that repeated charges by the police were seemingly ineffective. It was as though tho blue coats charged a stone wall. Occasionally the mob gave way in one place only to break over and under the wire hedge at some other. 'When the cavalry suddenly appeared thero was a wild outburst of applause in the reviewing stand. The men in brown virtually brushed aside tho mounted and foot police and took charged. In two linos tho troop charged tho crowds. Evidently realizing they would bo ridden down the mob fought their way back. When they hesitated, tho cavalrymon, under the orders of their ofllcers, did not hesitate. Their horses wero driven into tho throngs and whirled and wheeled until hooting men and women were forced to retreat. A space was quickly cleared. Tho parade in itself, in spite of the delays, was a great success. Passing through two walls of antagonistic humanity the marchers for the most part kept their temper. They suffered Insult and closed their ears to jibes and Jeers. Few faltered, although several of the older women ft TAFT COMES TO DIXIE ? HE PLANS TO REST ANI> PLAY IN SIJNNY SOUTH Wearing His Usual Smile as He Says Good-bye to Many Well Wishers,, Leaves Washington for Augusta. William Howard Taft, public serA ? '*'? O 1 1 /I f n itAiiro 1 1 villi i ssiuri* nc; woe ? i , oaiu i?icnon to public life Tuesday and became a citizen of the Republic that he has served over the seas and throughout the -world for so many years that he has almost lorgotten when ho enlisted. His good-bye to Washington was a smile . A handshake for the members of his Cabinet; a courtly bow to the women friends who braved the inauguration discomforts to bid him and Mrs. Taft God-speed in the union station;, a wave of the hand and another smile for the people who stood in the train shed and watched his train pull slowly out for the South.' The last that Washington saw of the twenty-seventh President was the dim outline of a big smiling Mvure, standing on the rear platform of a private car as it was swallowed in the curling smoke of the tunnel that leads under the city to Dixie. Ilis last glimpse of the where four years ago he became Chief Executive and to-day a private citizen by the people's will, was when ho looked from the platform of his car across the broad Potomac to where the Washington monument lifted its grey pointed peak to the grey sky. He expects to be in Georgia to rest and play for three weeks. On March 2 7 he plans to go North again tr? Mow JInvon tr? nettle rlnwn lindor! the elms of Yale to the peace and quiet of life as a professor of law. He left with no bitterness in his heart, he told friends, but only with thankfulness that he had been given the opportunity to serve. ATTACK LADY ON STREET. She Was Seized While Walking on a Street at Night. A special to The News and Courier from Anderson ?ays a young lady of prominent family was attacked by a man as she was walking down East Orr street on her way home, about 7:30 o'clock Monday night. The lady described the man as being a traveling salesman out of 'Baltimore, whom she had 3een several times Monday in the oflice building where she is employed. The police were notified and every precaution was taken to prevent the suspected man from escaping, but at 10 o'clock Monday night he had not been located. The lady says she had gone only a few yards off North Main street when the man, from behind, grabbed her. She jerked loose, bruising and scratching her arm, and in the scuffle she lost her hat. She ran as fast as she could to her home, and on ar^lirin it f linrn fnl 1 in o f flint IVIinn I I V 1 II ^ llIVvI Vy I V> I 1 III CAt i U i I I 1/ I T f A*W?? eihe had sufficiently recovered she gave the officers a description of the man and gave the name of the person she thinks committed the attack. The young lady was necessarily excited Monday night, but no serious effects are anticipated. The affair has caused excitement on the streets. Thought to lie Drunk. No trace of the traveling man who is alleged to have attacked a young lady on the streets of Anderson recently, has been found. The belief is that he was intoxicated when he accosted the young woman and intended nothing criminal. Fell Thousands of Feet. At Salisbury Plain, England, Goeffrey England, a British airman, fell 5,000 feet from bis monoplane and was instantly killed. were forced to drop out from time I i - U 111! 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Doth the negroes escaped at the time. Tosses immediately were organized and with the assistance of bloodhounds the fugitives wore captured late Friday. While they were being taken to the Clarhesville jail a itaob of masked men overpowered the posse and lynched the negroes. ? ? ? Mules Die From Poison. The Calhoun Advance says: "One day last week several mules owned by V. T. Whaley ate some pea hulls out of a wooden box in which some paris green had been put the year before, enough of the poison was eaten to cause the death of two of the mules." 'HORRY, y. S, C. ny Wank in Horry county. Mtro. >lus of all other banks in the cqjunyc ... ..$50,000 12,500 [HOLDERS .., .. 50,000 ORS . . .i ?Q .112,600 rroRS ARDSON* W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman. ommodatkxi which their accounts solicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a^vrmma* Viob Pars id art. .Cassis* ? r cent on yearly deposits.