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"ROOSEVELT TAKES OATH
Amld Tragic Scenes Successor to Martyred President
~ Swears to Faithfully Uphold the Constitution.
- WILL CONTINUE POLICY OF DEAD CHIEF EXECUTIVE
iin Presence of Few Persons at Residence of Ansley Wilcox, at Buffalo, |
the Solemn Obligation Is Imposed—All Members of the Cabinet |
" . Will Be Asked to Remain In Office For the Time Being. i
{};;;/Seturday afternoon Theodore Roose
© velt was tragically elevated to the
lef. magistracy of the American re
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’_ff{':KOnley. He reached Buffalo on a spe
~ cial train an hour previous to his inau
| _if}'.;suration after a remarkable and per
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~ North Woods, where he had gone on a
fhfinflnx expedition. He had been
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. /martyred president ceased to live.
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PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
quiring him to take a prescribed oatll
to support and defend the constitu
tion and laws of the United States.
He took that oath at 3:30 Saturday
“afternoon in the library of the resi
‘dence of Ansley Wilcox, a personal
friend with whom he stopped earlier
in the week when he thought Presi
' dent McKinley would recover from the
wound inflicted by the assassin.
"~ The scene was a most affecting one.
The new president had just come
- from the Milburn house, where his pre
" decessor lay cold in death. Overcome
by the deep personal sorrow he felt,
,;in his® characteristically impulsive
"Wy he had gone first to the house
_of mourning to offer his condolence
_and sympathy to the heart-broken wid
“ow. Secretary Root, who twenty years
- ago had been present at a similar|
geene, when Arthur took the oath af
ter the death of another president
‘who fell a victim to an assassin’s bul
let, almost broke down when he re
quested Mr. Roosevelt, on behalf of
the members of the cabinet of the
late president, to take the prescribed
oath. There was net a dry eye in the
_room. The new president was visibly
- shaken, but he controlled himself.
- With the deep solemnity of the occa
“sipn full upon him, he announced to
- those present that his aim would be to
:Z-bo William McKinley’s successor in
deed as well as in name.
The great, far-reaching significance
~of this pledge to continue the policy
~of the dead president, announced at
the very threshold of a new govern
ffmental regime, profoundly impressed
" his hearers, and President Roosevelt's
- first step after taking the oath was in
line with its redemption. His first act
- was to ask the members of the cabinet
to retain their portfolios in order to
~ aid him to conduct the government on
_lines laid down by him whose policy‘
he had declared he would uphold. Such '
_ an appeal was not to be resisted, and
~ every member of the cabinet, im:lud-1
_ing Secretary of State Hay and Secre-‘
~ tary of Treasury Gage, who were com-“
- municated with in Washington, have
",n‘reed for the present, at least, to re-‘
- tain their respective portfolios. ‘
5, President Roosevelt came out of the
. Milburn rouse at 2:56 and drove to the
%fWfleox home, reaching there at 3:15.1
- The official announcement of the,
physicians as a result of their autopsy
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on the president’s body that death re
‘su from gangrene of the wounds
ec to much discussion of the causes
‘leading up to this gangrene. It devel
~oped that Dr. Wasdin, one of the con
~Sulting physicians and an expert of
- Bigh standing in the marine hospital
_ Service, strongly supported the view
_#hat the murderous bullet had been
Was Assassin’s Bullet Poisonfi
‘A ten minutes’ wait for the members
of the cabinet ensued, and preparations
were made for taking the oath of of
iice.
The place selected was the library
of Mr. Wilcox’s house, a rather small
room, but picturesque, the heavy oak
trimmings and the massive book cases
giving it somewhat the appearance of
a legal den.
At precisely 3:82 o’clock Secretary
Root, who had been earnestly convers
ing with the president, ceased his con
versation, and stepped back, while an
absolute hush fell upon every one in
the room, gaid in an almost inaudible
voice:
“Mr. Vice President, 1—"
Then his voice broke and for full
two minutes the tears came down his
face and his lips quivered so that he
could not continue his utterances.
There were sympathetic tears from
those about him and two great drops
ran down either cheek of the successor
of William McKinley. Mr. RooLs
chin was on his breast. Suddenly
throwing back his head as if with an
effort, he continued in broken voice:
“l have been requested on behalf
of the cabinet of the late president,
at least those who are present in Buf
falo, all except two, to request that for
reasons of weight affecting the affairs
of government you shouid proceed to
take the oath of president of the Uni
ted States.”
Judge Hazel had stepped to the rear
of the president and Mr. Roosevelt,
coming closer to Secretary Root, said
in a voice that at first wavered, but fi
nally came deep and strong, while, as
if to control his nervousness, he held
firmly to the lapel of his coat with
his right hand: \
“I shall take the oath at once in
accordance with your request and in
this hour of deep and terrible national
bereavement I wish to state that it
shall be my aim to continue absolutely
unbroken the policy of President Mc-
Kinley for the peace ana prosperity
and honor of our beloved country.”
The president stepped farther into
the bay window and Judge Hazel, tak
ing up the constitutional oath of of
fice, which had been prepared on
parchment, asked the president to
raise his right hand and repeat it after
‘him. There was a hugh like death in
the room as the judge read a few
lwords at a time and the president, in
a strong voice and without a tremor
'and with his raised hand as steady as
if carved from marble, repeated it af
ter him. “And thus I swear,” he
ended it.
The hand dropped by his side, the
chin for an instant rested on the
breast and the silence remained un
broken for a couple of minutes as
though the new president of the Uni
'ted States was offering a silen. prayer.
'Judge Hazel broke it, saying: “Mr.
President, please attach your signa
ture,” and the president, turning to a
small table near by wrote, “Theodore
Roosevelt” at the bottom of the docu
ment in a firm hand.
poisoned, and that this was one of
the moving causes of the gangrenous
condition. Other physicians disagreed
with this view of the case.
The area of the dead and gangrened
flesh was a source of much surprise
to the surgeons, reaching a circum
ference about the size of a silver dol
lar about the internal wound.
i Aside from their official signed state
ment, the doctors were rather averse
lto discussing the autopsy.
EMMA GOLDMAN HELD
Alleged Anmarchist “Queen” ls’
Arraigned in Chicago Court. ‘
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REQUEST FOR BAIL REFUSED i
Judge Remands Her to Jail to Await |
Action of Court n Cases |
of Other Suspects Pre
viously Arrested.
At Chicago Wednesday Magistrate
Prindiville decided that Emma Gold
man, the anarchist lecturer under ar
rest there, should be held without bail !
pending the decision of similar cases |
in the superior court. !
Miss Goldman appeared for a hear
ing before the magistrate during the
forenoon. She had not secured coun
sel, but in a determined voice declared
that she was ready to act as her own
attorney. The assistant city prosecu
tor, however, obtained a continuance
of the hearing till September 19, the
date set for the hearing of the other
anarchists in custody.
The court postponed its decision in
‘he matter of bail, which Miss Gold
man demanded the privilege of fur
nishing, until later in the day. As the
charge against Miss Goldman, “con
spiracy to murder President McKin
ley,” is the one lodged against the lo
cal anarchists, who are named as co
conspirators with Miss Goldman, Mag
istrate Prindiville thought it wise to
await the decison of the higher court.
He caid it would not be necessary for
counsel to apply for a writ for Miss
Goldman, as he would deal exactly
with Miss Goldman as Judge Chetlain
did with the other prisoners.
When shown a dispatch from New
York stating that Czolgosz admitted
that there was a plot to assassinate
the president and mentioning her,
Misgs Goldman said:
“I can prove that I have not been in
Buffalo gince I left there the latter
part of August. I don’t believe that
Czolgcsz has confessed, because it
does not seem reasonable that a man
who declares that he had no one to
assist him should implicate me. He
has not confessed anything of the sort.
I do not know what means the police
might use to extort a confession, and
a man is liable to say things that he
does not mean.”
A Washington dispateh says: The
department of justice has not decided
upon any steps to secure possession of
Emma Goldman for the purpose of tak
ing action against her in the federal
courts. She was arrested by the Chi:
cago police on the request of the Buf
falo authorities, anu it is supposed by
the department of justice that ghe will
be taken to New York state. The
secret service authori.ies state that
she was not arrestea at their request,
and that they have no idea of proceed
ing against her unless directed by the
department of justice to do so, or un
less they secure testimony showing
that she was involved in the shooting
of the president.
Chief Wilkie said that so far he kas
not secured any evidence tending to
show that the anarchist bodies at Pat
erson, N. J.,, had anything to do with
the shooting of the president.
Chief Wilkie €enied in moat positive
terms the report that his office had re
ceived warnings that the president's
life would be attempted at Buffalo.
WANTS ANOTHER ARBITRATION.
Flant System Not Satisfied With Geor
gia’s Assessment For Taxes.
Comptroller General W. A. Wright,
of Georgia, is haring more trouble set
tling the question of the tax returns of
the Plant system than he has had with
any of the other roads.
The company made a return of its
property in Georgia, the Savannah.
Florida and Western railroad, to which
Comptroller General Wright dissented.
He then assessed the property, and
the matter went to arbitration. The
contention was thought to have been
settled. The Plant officials now ask
that the whole thing be reopened.
STRIKE BREAKERS PUT TO WORK
Officials of Railway Company Fill
Places With Imported Men.
One hundred and fifty Italian and
Irish laborers have been imported hy
the Baltitnore and Ohio Southwestern
Railway Company from §St. Louis to
take the places of strikers in the shops
at Washington, Ind. Immediately upoen
their arrival they were assigned to
work and are now employed. Only
ten of the imported men refused to
worl:;, claiming that the cituation had
been misrepresented to them at St.
Louis.
GREAT STRIKE ENDED?
Report Comes From Gotham that
Agreement Has Been Reached.
According to a New York dispatch
the great steel strike, which began on
June 30, was brought to an end at a
conference held Saturday between the
leaders of the Amalgamated associa
tion and officers of subsidary compa
nies of the United States Steel Corpo
ration.
An agreement was signed under
which the men will return to work at
once, -
CZOLGOSZ CHOSEN FOR WORK.
Buffalo Officials Now Claim tc Have
Convincing Evidence of an
Anarchistic Plot.
The Buffalo Courier in its issue of
Wednesday morning contained the fol
lowing:
Superintendent Bull now has in his
possession the code of instructions im
parted to the selected assassin, Czal
gosz. The platform of the Free So
ciety was also added to the cumulative
evidence o. the anarchist conspiracy.
This document binds its members to
gether to advocate and work for the
destruction of the eixsting social or
der, and continues:
“Ag in former times no privileged
class ever relinquished its tyranny, no
more can we take it for granted that
tue capitalists of tne present day will
forego their authority without compul
sion. It is, therefore, self-evidert that
the fight of the proletarian against the
upper and the middle class must be of
a violent character, and that mere
wage couflicts can never lead to the
goal.
“We show by numerous illustrations
that all attempts which have been
made in the past to do away with the
existing monstrous social system
through peaceful means—for example,
the ballot box—have been useless and
will be so in the future.
“Force is the only remedy.
“We know, therefore, that the ruling
class will not voluntarily relinquish
its prerogatives and will make no con
cessions to us. Under all these cir
cumstances there is only one remedy
left—force.
“Our platform is simple, and divid
ed as follows:
“1. Destruction of existing class
domination through inexorable revolu
tion in international activity.
“2. The building of a free society on
communistic organizations or produc
tions.
“3. Free exchange of equivalent pro
ducts through the productive organi
zation without jobbing and profit mak
ing.
“4, Organization of the educationai
system upon non-religious and a scien
tific and an equal basig for both sexes.
“5. Equal rights for all without dis
tinction of sex or race.
“6. Regulation of public affairs
through agreement between the inde
pendent communes and confedera
cies.”
MONSTER PARADE OF G. A. R.
Line of Vets Nearly Eight Miles Long
and Five Hours In Passing.
Notwithstanding lowering elouds
that censtantly threaiened a down
pour of rain throughout the morning,
the grand parade of the thirty-fifth na
tional encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic was viewed at Cleve
land, 0., Wednesday by several hun
dred thousand people. The parade
started soon after 10 o’clock and it
moved for five hours. The thousands
of people in the reviewing stands and
on the grandstands which lined Bond
street in the court of honor gaw a con
tinuous parade of six or eight miles
iong pasks.
At Bond ard Superior streets the
veterans passed between the four
white double columns whieh stand at
each corner and between the rows of
grandstands, down Bond street to the
banks of Lake Hrie, past the reviewing
stand on which stood Commander in
Chief Rassieur and the others of the
reviewing party. Immediately in front
of the veterans as they marched stood
the grandstand on which hundreds of
school children were grouped in a
huge American flag. Waving little
flagg, they gave the whole the effect
of an American emblem floating to the
breeze. This was the occasion of eut
bursts of enthusiasm on the part of
the vetarans themselves. They
shouted and cheered and waved their
hats. The children sang, as the vet
erans passed, the old war songs, which
brought back memories of the days
of sixty-one.
Senator Hanna, wearing a Grand
Army of the Republic uniform, left
the reviewing stand shortly before
noon and joined his post—the Memo
rial-—-in its march through the court of
honor and down-town streets.
POSTMASTER IN TROUBLE.
Prominent Palmetto State Citizen An
r:ested for Embezziement.
An announcement in Columbia, 8.
C., Wednesday of the arrest of Wil
liam J. Falr, postmaster at Newberry,
for embezglement caused great sur
prise. Fair is of excellent family and
Ras for years been an important man
in his section. He is a brother in law
of Hon. Y. J. Pope, senior assoeiats
justice of the state supreme eourt.
F. L. Bynum, a young lawyer, has
been put in charge of the office at New
berry. The amount of the shortage is
as yet unknown.
PRESIDENT’S DEATH MASK.
Model of Features Taken By Pausch,
of Hartford, Conn.
A death mask of the president's face
was taken at the Milburn house by
Eduard L. A. Pausch, of Hartford,
Conn., who has modeled the features
of many of the distinguished men who
have died in this country in recent
years. The mask is a faithful produc
tion of the late President McKinley’s
features, 2
To Fill Howison’s Seat In Schley
Court of Inquiry.
PROCEEDINGS ARE POSTPONED
Death of Martyred President Necessi
tates Recess of Board—Samp
son Granted Additional
Leave of Absence.
A Washington special says: Admi
ral Ramsay has been selected as the
successor to Admiral Howison on the
Schley court of inquiry.
Admiral Ramsey is the immediate
successor of Admiral Crowninshield as
chief of the navigation bureau of the
navy department. He was appointed
from Pennsylvania to the naval acad
emy as midshipman in 1850, and his
record in the civil war is full of en
gagements with the enemy on the low
er Mississippi and Yazoo rivers and
around Fort Fisher and Richmond on
the Atlantic coast. He is 66 years old.
It is impossible to predict as to his
acceptability to Admiral Schley.
The death of the president has caus
ed the court of inguiry to become a
matter of secondary importance, and
it will postpone the net session of the
court indefinitely.
Admiral Schley’s friends are jubilant
over the successful manner in which
the objection to Admiral Howison was
sustained, and it does not seem likely
that any objection will be made to Ad
miral Ramsay.
The court did not meet Friday morn
ing, but Judge Advocate Lemly and
Solicitor Hanna visited the navy yard,
where they conferred with a number
of witnesses who have been summoned
by the navy department. The pres
ence of Admiral Sampson at the court
is still undetermined and will doubt
less hinge upon the nature of certain
evidence to be introduced by Admiral
Schley. The evident desire of all par
ties seems to be to avoid a comparison
of Admiral Schley and Admiral Samp
son. The latter has been granted an
additional leave of two weeks’ ab
gence on account of sickness.
A number of important witnesses
are in the city.
A DAY OF MOURNING.
Many Thousands View Remains of
Martyred President at Buffalo
Sunday Afternoon and Night.
Sunday Buffalo was converted into
a city of mourning and mourners. The
gay and flaming decorations of the
Pan-American exposition gave way to
the symbol of sorrow. The black dra
pery of the city’s streets muffled the
tolling bells of the churches. Bits of
crepe appeared on every sleeve. The
SOrrow was everywhere apparent. In
the morning a simple service took
place at the residence on Delaware
avenue, where the martyred president
died.
A hymn was sung and prayer Wwas
offered over the dead body. That was
all. Only the immediate family ard
the friends and political associates of
the late president were present. The
gscene was pathetic in the extreme.
Then the body was borne out to the
waiting cortege on the brawny shoul
ders of eight sailors and soldiers of
the republic. The cortege passed
through solid walls of living humanity,
bare-headed and grief-strickem, to the
city hall, where the body lay in state
Sunday afternoon. There a remarkable
demenstration occurred which proved
how clese the president was to the
hearts of the people. Arrangements
had been made to allow the public to
view the body from the time it arrived,
at about 1:30 o’clock, until about &
o’clock. But the people were wedged
into the streets for blocks. Two lines
were formed. They extended literally
for miles. When 5 o'clock came 40,
000 people had already passed, and the
erowds waliting below in the streets
secemed undiminished. When the
doors were closed at midright Sunday
night, it was estimated that 80,000
people had viewed the remains, but
thousands of disappointed ones were
still in the streets.
ANARCHIST LEADER ARRAIGNED.
Herr Most Hauled Up in New York
Court and Held Under Bond.
John Most, who was arrested in New
York Thursday night on the charge of
circulating incendiary literature calcu
lated to incite unlawful acts, was ar
raigned in police court Friday. At the
prisoner’s request his examination was
get for Monday. The assistant district
attorney asked that Most be held in
$2,500 bail, but the magistrate said
the prisoner was only charged with
a misdemeanor and fixed the bail at
$l,OOO. Most weas locked up in default
of bail
'LONGSHOREMEN ON STRIKE.
New Orleans Port Business Tied Up.
Cargo Handlers Want More Wages.
The business of the port of New Or
leans was tied up Thursday on account
of the strike of longshoremen. The
shipping agents refused to grant the
demands for higher wages, and about
1,700 of the cargo handlers failed to re
tura to work. ol ot o
NEWS SUMMARY
{ Paramqnnt Events of ty,
—=s{ Day Briefly and Snoointl,
Paraphrazed,
—General Manager Gabbitt, of the
Alabama and Georgia, will be succeeq
ed by E. J. Cunningham, of Say .
au annah,
—Hon. T. B. Johnson has been elect.
ed to the Georgia legislature from Jet.
ferson county to take the place of his
father, who recently died,
—Liquor dealers in Wilcox county
Georgia, have attacked the validity of
the order for a prohibition electioy
and secured an injunction by Juq
Roberts. "
—Oil wells and natural gas flow i,
Alabama has made the prices of lands
fabulous.
—North Carolina citizen, 52 years of
age, Is given ten years at hard lahop
for slaying his 17-year-old son in May
last.
—The Grand Army parade, at Clevye.
land, Ohio, Wednesday was seven or
eight miles in length. Mark Hanng
was one of the marchers,
—Emma Goldman was denied bai]
by a Chicago magistrate at a prelimi.
nary hearing Wednesday. He decideq
to hold her until action is taken in re.
gard to other anarchists under arrest,
—Police of Buffalo claim to havye
evidence of instructions given by the
anarchists to Czolgosz, the assassin,
to shoot the president.
—The Union League of Maryland
expelled Senator Wellington from
membership for his utterances about
the shooting of President McKinley.
—~Seven of the bodies of men that
were entombed in a mine at Port Roy
al, Pa., were found Wednesday.
—Martial Faugeron, a Frenchman
on trial at London for the killing of
Herman Jung, says Jung tried to hire
him to kill Joe Chamberlain, colonial
secretary.
—The czar of Russia and the emper.
or of Germany met at Hela, Prussia,
Wednesday. There was great cere
mony, and the emperors embraced
each other when they met.
—umpress Dowager Frederick, ac
cording to Truth, left a fortune to
Count Seckendorf, her alleged mwor
ganatic hugband.
—'Bhe British have had another en
gagement with the Boers, in which the
latter suffered heavily.
—The condition of the president
continued favorable throughout Wed:
nesday and nothing occurred to shaka
the faith the attending physicians and
surgeons have expressed that he will
recover,
—The president’s physielans Tues
day anncunced that their patient was
practically out of danger, and that his
recovery will be rapid.
—Emma Goldman, ‘“queen of the
anarchists,” has been arrested at Chi
cago charged with conspiracy to kill
the president. Miss Goldman takes her
arrest coolly and denies responsibility
for the deed of Czolgose.
—At an enthusiastic meeting in At
lanta Tuesday night officers of the
Fifth Georgia regiment put on foot &
movement for a jubilece to celebrate
the recovery of President McKinley.
—Editors from south Georgia meet
at Mcßag Tuesday and organized the
South Georgla Press Association.
—Samuel N. Eansbacher, peventh
enlisted man in confederate marine
corps and gunner of Merrimae, died in
Columbus, Ga., Tuesday.
—A big rallroad sensation is brew
ing in Texas, it being claimed that offi
cialg of Santa Fe system are injuring
the road by antagonism to labor unions
in legislative matters.
—Delegate R. Walton Moore in the
Virginia constitutional convention
Tuesday presented a memorial praying
that a provision making anarchy &
capital crime in the state be ingerted
in the new organic law.
—Negro strike breakers at Pitts
burg were forced to flee to escape be
ing mobbed by a crowd of women. The
women burned many cots belonging to
the negroes.
—The wife of Admiral Sampso
makes the statement that her husband
is eertainly losing his mind in brood:
ing over the coniroversy.
—The Atlanta negro, James Parkef,
who felled the president’s agsailant at
Buffalo, will probably secure 2 lacra
tive berth from the administration 88
the reward of his courageous act.
—The last efforts to settle the great
steel strike have failed. Situation at
McKeasport has reaced acute stage.
—G. A. R. encampment opened at
Cleveland, Ohio, with nearly two hun
dred thousand visitors in the city
—A telegram from Buffalo, N. Y.
to Montgomery, Ala., says Cody Thom
as, assistant at Alabamsa exposition
exhipit, is in serious trouble. The B#
ture of the offense s not given, but it
is described as “one of desperate emer
geney.”
—The administration, through At
torney Genmeral Knox, refuses to aid
Schley’s enemies by appointing attor
ney to assist Judge Advocate Lemley
—Official interpreter of Polish lar
guage says name of would-be uus'i:
of president should be pronouncet’
“Choalgosh,” which means 8 “sask®
—A warm fight is on 8t Clevell;dé
Ohio, for commander in chief of s
Grand Army of the Republic. Gepe
Sickles Is being boomed for the P:o";
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