The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 6, 1913, Page 1

SDAY, MARCH 6, 1913. tion’s Twe -?’NEATH CAPITAL DOME NEW RULER SOLEMNLY ASSUMES OBLIGATIONS ‘Vast Concourse Stirs to Wild Cheering as He Calls Occasion Day of Dedi- Cation, Not Triumph, -}EVENT MOST BRILLIANT IN HISTORY AS SUN BEAMS ‘PROPHETICALLY ‘Taft Joins in Congratulations and Thousands Lining ‘ON NEW EXECUTIVE Streets Breaks into Fragtic Applause Wherever His Successor Appears. Washington, D. C., March 4,— Rhythmic precision characterized the n,-and-he-turned-to-shake the hand | of his Secretary of State, William | ceremonies today whereby the Gov-| Jennings Bryan.’ nty- Eighth nw OK a Si GY TA ] | | |ernment passed from the control of | the stand-pat Republicanism into the | hands of progressive Democracy. | The twenty-eighth President of the | | United States supplanted the twenty- seventh, Woodrow Wilson succeeded ‘William Howard Taft, the thirty- third inauguration became history under conditions which, in every re- spect, augured well for the future. Underneath the Capitol’s dome} |President Wilson took the oath; in: |the Senate chamber Vice President | |Marshall assumed his honors, and | |downtown, ‘from their reviewing! | stand in the Court of Honor, the new! President and Vice President review- ed the gigantic pageant representing | the military and civic life of the na- | tion—all without slip, hitch or seri- {ous mishap. Governor Rides Thoroughbred. “1 attribute this demonstration, Rabe eas however, more to the fact that Gen. | Missouri Governor’ Gets Ovation in | O’Meara had concocted a plan where- Pageant. at Washington be we would be easily identified, Ceremonies, while nearly every other state had Washington, D. ¢., March 4.—Gov. made no provision other than a state Elliott W. Major and his ‘Colonels’ | flag to signify who they were. were given continual ovations during|. ‘Gen. O’Meara drew up a kind of their march in the inaugural parade. | Pennant made of the most flimsy Long before the pageant wasstarted |Cloth and had ‘Missouri’ written the Governor and his staff were es-|across its entire length of nearly corted from the Raleigh Hotel to the | eight feet. The pennant was carried rendezvous near the Capitol, whence | by an orderly at the head of the Mis-| ] aus they'were to “fall in line.” 'souri party and could be seen by the} Ceremonies Move Perfectly. Entering Pennsylvania avenue at | Several hundred thousands of visitors) The ceremonies in the Senate Twelfth street, they rode to the Capi- who lined the route of the parade.” |chamber involved complex official tol and, on the way, received the first, Gov. Major rode a handsome, high-| procedure, every detail of which MAJOR CHEERED IN INAUGURAL MARCH. preof of Missouri’s popularity so far stepping Virginia thoroughbred black | moved with machine-like accurcy. * There they stpod—Taft, tstandard bearer of a vanquished party, after sixteen years of power; Bryan, a persistent plodder of progressive | Democracy, thrice defeated, accept- | ing a commission from a new chief- tain, and Wilson, the man of the} expressed it, “‘not the forces$of par-| ty, but the forces of humanity.” | It was a political picture far be-|y, S. Troops, Fired Upon, Kill Four Yond imaginings of a few years gone and Repulse Mexicans, by, a setting that stirred the souls of the assembled hosts, whose cheer- ing at the scene seemed actually to reverberate from the distant Virginia hills. The military and civic pageant which followed this climax of the his- toric day was more than five hours passing in review. Leaving Capitol Hill at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, the last of the marching thousands had not doffed their colors to the Presi- dent in the Court of Honor until long after darkness had fallen. President Wilson stood for an hour BATTLE. Douglas, Ariz., March 3.—Neither American troopers nor Mexicans crossed the boundary line in the bat- tle yesterday five miles from here, where two troops ofthe Ninth United States cavalry fought a thirty-minute battle with the Mexican regulars yes- terday. More than 2,000 shots were ‘fired byetif American troopers and it is estimated that fully as many were fired by the Mexicans. None of the Americans were hit, but four of the Mexicans were killed and a number wounded. jhour, victorious, mustering, as he| MEXICAN LINE IS SCENE OF Small-pox Under 7 from home. ! “Hurrah for Major!” and ‘Hurrah | for the Show-Me-State!”’ echoed and re-echoed from the crowds which, though not yet noon, lined both sides of the street. t It was nearly 5 o’clock when the Governor and. his staff reappeared for the return march in the parade proper. From the moment he en- tered the line of march the Governor was forced to carry his hat in his mare. The Governor said that it| was the first time he had been on a horse in several years. “But,” he added, “‘you know I am, or was, an expert horseman. I have! ridden and broken lots of bronchos | in the West and I love to ride. -I ex- pect I will be a little stiff tomorrow, but the sights along the line of march ‘were worth it.” | Speaking of President Wilson and the outlook for his administration for hand in, acknowledgement of the hd next four years, the Missouri “demonstrations. As commander of the First Brigade of the Fourth Division, the Missouri Governor was officially saluted by by President Wilson and: personally recognized by a bow and smile. | | We desire to vernor said no President in his lifetime ever had been ushered into office under more auspicious circum- stances. He said that he looked for progress both. in politics and in , busi- ness for many years to come.”’ Ohio Street M. E. Church. “The Loss of the Prayer-less Life” will be sermon subject of the minis- ter of this friendly church next Sun- day morning at 11 o'clock. In the evening the subject will be “Our Lords Three-linked Life-line.” To} these services the public is cordially invited. _We want to emphasize = make the advance ‘announcement of the lecture on The inauguration proper, out in, Capitol, and lastly, the four hours’) march of the great parade through a canon-like course two miles long, involved dealing with crowds larger | than ever have assembled in Wash- ington before, but no serious acci- dent occured. Each of the day’s many tableaux faded the one into the, other without the semblance of a jar- | ring interruption. Capitol, in a the presence of a count- less, cheering concourse of his fel- | low-citizens, 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 immensely human, prece- dent-breaking inauguration, with) members of his chosen Cabinet sur-| rounding him, the Justices of the) Supreme Court before him, his wife | and daughters actually dancing for) joy on the platform below, and Wil- liam Howard Taft, former President of the nation, at his side. The Presi- dent shouted a summons to all “‘hon- | | Waves of Applause Greet Address. While the President’s concluding inaugural words were tossing in tu- multuous waves of the President clasped his hand ted as.a patriotic servant in under the glare of myriads of bril- |open beneath the huge dome of the jjiant electric lights as he greeted thousands in the long line, among them the host of Princeton students, who, as they passed before him, shouted a hearty greeting, which he never can forget. The music of the bands, the glitter of the gilded uniforms, and all the enthusiasm in the pageant that had gone before had stirred him again Wilson, an inspiration that brought cherished memories and joyous tears. Not long after the boys from Old Nassau had passed, he turned from the human panorama and entered the White House to grasp the wheel of the ship of state. The New Cabinet Secretary of State—Wm. J. Bryan, of Nebraska. Treasury—William G. McAdoo of New York. -War—Lindley M. Garrison of New Jersey. Atiorney General—James McRey- nolds of Tennessee. Postmaster General—Representa- tive Albert Burleson of Texas. Navy—Josephus Daniels of North Carolina. Interior—Franklin K: Lane of Cal- ifornia. Agriculture—David F. Houston of i 1 Commerce—Representative Wil- liam C. Redfied of New York. Labor—Representative William B. Wilson of Pennsylvania. Hay. Wanted. ‘200 tons or more of good timothy clover and timoth en J. S. WARNOCK. and again, but the sight of this cheer-_ Under the-deme ofthe nation’s! ing student army was, to President | Colonel Gilfoyle, commanding the Ninth cavalry, today sent a detailed report of the skirmish to the war de- (partment at Washington. “All T have to say is that my re- port went to Washington this morning and substantially agrees with yours,”’ said Colonel Gilfoyle to- day to the Associated Press. General Ojeda, commander of the Mexican federal troops at Agua Prieta, said: **All there is to the affair is that fifteen Maderistas tried to cross the line yesterday morning at 7 o’clock, when the negro troops tried to arrest them. They fired and the negros |fled. At 7:30 a. m. I started 150 fed- {erals to Naco. The road they had to | travel goes close to the border line. | When they reached the place where | the shots were fired in the morning, | the negro troops opened fire on them. ; My men retreated a short distance add returned the fire as long as the | negroes fired. My troops did not | fire first.” Bates County Progressives Con-| template Purchasing | Newspaper. The members of the Progressive | party of Bates county are seriously | contemplating the purchase of anews- | paper for.the official organ of that party in the county, and at a meeting held in the sheriff's office in this city Saturday afternoon, a committee of five was appointed to investigate the proposition. The gentlemen appoint- ed upon that committee were: G. P. Wyatt, Dr. E. G. Zey, M. M. Carroll J. R. Baum, and Dr. Wilson. At this meetinga motion was carried to hold a township convention in each President —— KD WS ee : wy hy Rigid Quarantine. There are perhaps a dozen cases of small-pox in a mild form under quar- antine in this city, confined to nine families, and one patient who is be- ing held in the calaboose, which has been transformed into a pest house. In every instance, prompt action has been taken by the authorities and a strict quarantine established and rig- idly enforced at the first suspicion of the appearance of the disease. Up- to-date no one is seriously ill with the disease and every precaution is be- ing taken not only to stamp it out but to prevent its spread. Follow- ing is a list of those under quarantine: Children of J. E. Trosper, West Pine street. Grant Gilmore, Chestnut street. Child of Mrs. Green, Thompson street. Wiley Matlock, Ohio street. Daughter of Forrest Kerrens, Ohio street. Fred Williams, Havana street. L. A. Fuller, Mechanic street. Son of John Murphy, Ft. Scott street. Son of Win. Kivus, Ft. Seott street. *F. Garten, Pest House. Taft, An Official Since 21 Retires Washington, D. C., March 4.— William H. Taft, public servant since he was 21 years old, said his farewell to public life today and became a cit- izen of the Republic that he has served over the seas and throughout the world for so many years that he has almost forgotten when he en- listed. His good bye was a smile, a hand- shake for the members of his Cabi- net, 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 slow- ly out for the South. The last that Washington saw of the twenty-seventh President was the dim outline of a big, smiling figure in a frock coat, with hair a little awry, standing on the rear plat- form of a private car as it was swal- lowed in the curling smoke of the tun- nel that leads under the city to Dixie. . M. W. A. Notice The Modern Woodmen Social has been postponed until Thuraday, March 13th, 1918, All members and families invited to attend. _-