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The Twenty-Eighth Inauguration

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 13, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 11.

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The Twenty-Eighth Inauguration

The inauguration of Pres. Woodrow Wilson was probably the greatest inaugural celebration ever held in Washington. The day was a very different one from that on which President Taft went into office. On that day the country east of the Rockies was in the grip of a veritable blizzard; on this day the country seemed to be standing on the Mason and Dixon line, between winter and summer. From early morning until late at night the city was full of the celebration and its preparation and aftermath. Shortly after noon took place the vital part of the ceremonies, the swearing in of the President and Vice-President. Following the inaugural addresses, began the great parade of 35,000 public officials, soldiers, sailors, members of civic organizations, and college students, which required more than four hours to pass a given point. In the evening the city was brilliantly illuminated, and the inaugural ceremonies closed with a magnificent display of fireworks. The new President and the old rode together over the route of the parade; and while President Wilson was reviewing the parade, ex-President Taft was being whirled away in a special car toward Atlanta. Many remarked upon the fact that here was the culmination of a political revolution in a great nation, in which the government was completely overturned, and all without bloodshed and with the utmost good feeling. The new President, a Democrat, has a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate to help him in shaping the affairs of the country in harmony with the purposes of the people who elected him. There are questions to be settled which will test all the powers of statesmanship and diplomacy which the new administration can bring to its aid. It is no small task that faces the new President and the new Congress. The true Christian, whatever his personal preference, will wish them the guidance of God in the conduct of the nation's affairs, that the rights of men may not be trampled upon and the work of God may not be hindered.