SWEARING IN OF PRESIDENT M’KINLEY.
[by electric telegraph—copyright.]
(per press association.)
Washington, March 5.
Amidst intermittent rain President M’Kinley was sworn in for the second term as President.
A platform was erected on the east front of the capitol of Washington for the occasion. He received an ovation, and addressed a gathering numbering 40,000 The key-note of his speech was that the duties and privileges had become greater in America, and the necessity for liberal and reciprocal trade relations with other countries justified America’s policy of moderation and fairness in China, and the desire for a close friendship with Cuba, assisting her into the position of a soperate nation, and with the determination to give self-government to the Philippines as soon as the inhabitants wore ready to change. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was sworn In as Vice-President.
80,000 troops marched to the White House, and President M’Kinley reviewed them;
Tne feature of the d-.silvy was the Porto Bicaa E:gimont.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 March 1901, Page 4
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158SWEARING IN OF PRESIDENT M’KINLEY. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 March 1901, Page 4
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