The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 13, 1913, Image 6
SWORN IN OFFICE
WILSON AND MARSHALL ARE INAUGURATED
IN
PRESENCE OF THRONGS
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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MEAN HOWLING MOB
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INSULT WOMEN HABCHING WOMEN
IN CAPITOL CITY
INSULTED WOMEN WEEP
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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
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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
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TAFT COMES TO DIXIE
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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
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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
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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
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I(J I 1 lilt;. .?! is? iit;it*ri i\t;iii;i , nit; uvued
(leaf and blind girl, was so exhausted
and unnerved by the experience
in attempting to reach a grand
stand, where she was to have been a
guest of honor, that she was unable
to speak later at Continental Ilall.
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Strung Up for Murdering Policeman
at Cornelia, Ga.
Two unidentified negro tramps,
charged with killing Policeman John
Bibby of Cornelia, Ga., were taken
from a posse and lynched near there
Friday night by a mob of masked
men. Both the negroes were strung,
up to a telegraph pole in the presence
of several hundred persons from Cornelia
and Clarkeville, Ga.
The negroes came into Cornelia.
Friday morning on a freight and
were arrested by the policeman. As
uiDoy was naiKicuiiing one ul mum,
the other took the oflicer's pistol and
shot Gibhy twice. Death was instantaneous.
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.
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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."
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