The Archive · 1885

Tux Inaugural Address of President

THE NEW PRESIDENT

Cleveland was listened to by an enthu. siastic crowd, Somewhere about a handred and fifty toucand people were in and ubout the Capitol at the time, and the cheers which greeted the President's sentences wore entisfaotorily enthusiastic, That a great number of Democrats should go to Washington to seo a Provident of their own position! oreed inaugurated was to be expected and that they should have applauded heartily is no more than was to be expected under the circumstances, But the Democrats who heard the ad-Areas muy Lave ocossiounlly required to remind themselves that Br. Cleveland chosen as a Democrat, and possibly may have been vow und then obliged to assure themselves that the crowd was Democratic, and that they individually proteosed the politionl fulth which in former days was of a very inet character, and the adherents of which liked their statesmen to ride the Ligh Loree in public.

The Inaugural. Address is a very sensible document, no doubt, but there nothing distinctly democratic in it; indeed, it is so indefinite that it might have come from the lips of a Republican who did not wich to oom. mit himself to anything in particular, To say that President Cleveland was guarded in the expressions Lo used in. adequately describes hie Innguage, If he means to settle the few political ques. tious that interest the American public,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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