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4 r ;., E y , SkLANDRY C LARI " Here s!sall the ipress the people's rights maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain." VOL. III. NO. 22. OPELOUSAS, LA., SATURDAY, MARCII 11, 1893. SUBSCRIPTION, 1:50 A YEAR. . . .. ... . . .. . . ..... ........ .... ... . .. ... . . .... . .... .... . . . . .... .. . .. ,:--1 )-- 11. 1 CLEVELAND'S INAUGURATION Inagllgration (ay was: one of wind and snow. Mir. ('leveland, however, took the oath of office standing on the accustomed portico, in full view of the thousands of spectators. On the mornring pre(eding inaugura tion Mr. Cleveland cailed on Mr. IIar rison at the White lHouse. Few peo ple were present at the interview. This exchange of courtesies lasted only about eight minutes. Two hours after the courtesy was reciprocated, the President calling on Mir. ('lev:elandt at the Arlington Hlotel, accompanied 1b Private Secretary ilalford anid Lieut. Jno. \V. Parker, hisr naval aid. The next morning 3Ir. ('leveland drove to the capital with President Harrison, and remained in the vice President's room until the hour of in auguration, President Harrison spend ing the last half hour Larranging C'on gressional affairs. Toward 11 o'clock a special commit tee proceeded to the Arlington Ilotel. After a last exchange of cordial greet ing with the President at the White House, Mr. Cleveland entered an ele gant carriage, drawn by four jet-black horses in white traplpings, and was driven to the capitol. The procession was a splendid array of civic and mili tary organizations; the latter were commanded by Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee, of Virginia. When Mr. Cleveland , ihed the capital wild and continued cheering from thousands of throats greeted the new executive. Chief Jus tice Fuller solemnly and impressively administered the oath of office. Mr. Cleveland then stepped forward and delivered the inaugural address. It is estimated that 200,000 people viewed the procession and ceremonies. CLEVELAND'S CABINET. In his choice of a cabinet President (Clevelanld has particularly honored the legal profession. Six out of the eight portfolios went to lawyers, aI(nd old newspaper men secu red thle reniaini ng two. The legal luminaries are Walter Q. Greshanm, John (U, Carlisle, ]tilary A. Herbert, Iloke Smith, Wilson S. Bissell and Richard )lney. The news paper men are Daniel S. Lamont and J. Sterling Morton, and Mr. Smith is also promiment in the newspaper world in the South. Ely I / / r r. I'I, PSE CELAD CARRIGE IIN R O // . j Nrlis~p,: /let~~ 121~r PRESID ENT CLEVELAND)'S CARRIAGE I T-IlE INAUGURAL PROCESSION. decisions was reversed by the United states supreme court. Judge Gresham received many honors at President Arthur's hands. lie was successively .made postmaster general, secretary of the treasury and United States judge for the seventeenth judicial district at Chicago. In October, 1892, after he had refused the People's Party nomin ation for president, he announced that he would vote for Cleveland and added, -I think that a Republican can vote for Mr. Cleveland without joining the Democratic party." In 1858 Judge (Gresham married Matilda McGrain, and they have a son and a daughter. JOHN GRIFFIN (.ALISIE., THE INAUGURATION CEREMONIES AT THE CAPITOL II iri i ~ / ý "r; ý.\ I I'+; +I r ý ;r ý ' I !f , ; . v , (_ / I "} ý l _ !' ýý ýIý I ' IIýf) ýf I , ' '7 .;·t; ·, .: ...._ , _ l i' _1= - . --. - Iý y 1 I ! ,. r c c' j;I i MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT-ELE"CT AND PRESIDENT HARRISON AT THE WHITE HOUSE. te preminier or rile .luevelaic animninins tration, is now 61 years of ago. March has been an important month i in his career, for he was born at Lanesville. Ind.. March 17, 1~32, and in Marih, ISl.8;, he assumnes the office of secrctary of state, tho highest place in the giIt of the president. It is odd, too, that he was born in Harrison count,-. and that (0) years later lie should refuse to support for president the grandson of tlie man from whom the country of his birth took its name. l1r. (iresham was horn on a farm in a rather wild locality, and \\whien lie was only 2 years old Sheriff (Gresham, his father, was killed by a desperado. There were six the new secretary of the treasury, is one of the best known Democrats in the country. lie was born in Ken tucky 57 years ago, received a common school e(lncation and later taught school at Covington. lie was admit ted to the bar in 1858, was a member of the state house of representatives the two years following. and beginning in 1866 served two terms in the state senate. In 1868 he was a delegate at large to the National )emocratic con vention at New York, and served as lieutenant governor of his state from 1871 to 1875. The year following the budding young statesman was 'sent to congress, where for 17 years as con miiiren for the WIGoWv to sulpport, our oung (;resliam managed to get a good d(utation and became a lawyer. When he Rlepublican party was organized. ie joined it and took up the anti-slav When the war broke out, i(resham ed a cnmpany of home guards into :he federal service, and for gallant ser rices rose gradually in rank until he vas made a brigadier general at Vicks -urg. In Jtnly, 1S(i8, he was disabled yv a mi nie ball which broke his leg as o was leading a charge. Gleneral ;rant made him lnited States district udge, and hle served for 12 years, dur ng which time not a single one of his gressman, speaker of the house and senator, he made a great name for him self. lie has only been in the senate since May. 189)(). .,t resigned wlifen MIr. Cleveland called him to the cahin et. Mr. Carlisle's family consists of himself and two sons, Logan and W. K. Carlisle. D)ANIEL S. LAMONT, secretary of war, first achieved fame as private secretary to P'resident Cleve land during his first term. His career has been a very interesting one. He was born in Cortland county, N. Y., 42 years ago of Scotch parents, and when only 12 years of age he went to work in a newspaper oflice. His first WQLTeI R J~r otiN Q. CARLISLE.A rJ - Ný 10' Dý 6'I7 -jDNTr;sjt 110 LgRA.HJB 3ý.TERrIIOTt o a 0T~l .0Gf 0 .. to 10 a1. 0 HZ 9-_:h public office was a deputy elerkship in New York, and in 1870, 1871 and 1875 lie was a clerk in the New York state assembly. The two following years he was chief clerk in the state department at Albany, and during Governor Til den's administration Lamont was re garded as his confidential man. In 1883 he was appointed private and military secretary of Governor Grover Cleveland, and thus secured his title as colonel. When Mr. Cleveland went to Wash ington as president, Lamont accom panied him. Hie already possessed a great rel)utation as a model private secretary-alert, keen, even tempered, diplomatic and silent-and after he had been at Washington a short time he was generally regarded as the most able private secretary a president had ever possessed. His tact, shrewdness, ability and popularity made him one of the most conspicuous figures of the president's official family. Since the c:ose of the Cleveland administration he has developed into a street railway magnate of most marked ability and has been interested in a dozen big en terprises. His income is said to be about $100,000 a year ; his salary as sec retary of war will be $8,000. Mrs. La mont is described as a model wife and mother. There are three little La monts--Bessie, aged 11 years; Julia, aged 9, and Frances Cleveland Lamont, aged 4. HILARY A. HERBERT, secretary of thbanavy, ~as served sev eral years as chairman of the house naval committee at Washington and is said to know more about the navy than any other man in congress. He was born at Lanrensville, $. C., in in March, 1834, and moved to Alabama when he was 12 years old. He. bee~e a lawyer, but;dropped his books st t:b breaking out-ofl the war and, enteri the Confeiderate army as captai:n, He became a.col ong through gallant viem had was disable4 at the bhtl the W i 4. ' 'x, --Tf$ J··B~C! K'C- - II· : * ' '5 * ^~if jjK. PZEO · UID· G his profession at Greenville, Ala., un til 1872, when he removed to Mont gomery, his present home. His first important political office was that of congressman, and he has served as a member of the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty second Congresses. Mr. Herbert is a widower. 1His family consists of a married daughter, an unmarried daugh ter and a son at school. IIOKE SMITH, secretary of the interior, was born 38 years ago in North Carolina. He re moved to Georgia with his parents, and after receiving his education in the Atlanta schools became the prin cipal of the girls' high school. While instructing pupils there he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1876. In the practice of his profession he was frequently retained in suits against railroads, and for years he has been known as a fearless enemy of grasping corporations. Having made a fortune out of his practice, Mr. Smith purchased the Atlanta Journal and made it one of the leading daily news papers of the South. He is known as the "original Cleve land man from Georgia," having es poused the president's cause when he had need of friends in that state. His most recent political feat was to trans form the Georgla delegation] to the presidential convention at IChicago from a Hill to a Cleveland delegation. He is over 6 feet tall and weighs 260 pounds. He was originally named Machael Hoke Smith, but early in life he dropped the Michael and signed himself Hoke Smith. Mr. Smith has a beautiful wife and three children. WILSON SIHANNON BISSELL, postmaster general, is physically the biggest man in the cabinet, with the possible exception of Mr. Smith, but lie is fully as well equipped with brain as he is with brawn. Mr. Bissell has long been known as "Bosom Friend" Bissell t ecause of his nearness to Mr. Cleveland and because of the fact that he was for some time the president's law partner at Buffalo. He was born in Oneida county, N. Y., 46 years ago and is a graduate of Yale. He studied law at Buffalo with A. P. Laning, who later formed partnership with Grover Cleveland and Oscar Folsom. In 1872 Mr. Bissell was admitted to the bar and soon became a partner in the firm of Bass, Cleveland & Bissell, composed of Lyman K. Bass, Grover Cleveland and Wilson S. Bissell. In a very few years Mr. Bissell be came a well known railroad lawyer. Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Bissell were very intimate friends in Buffalo. They occupied apartments in the same build ing, and when Mr. Cleveland was mar ried Mr. Bissell officiated as best man. Mrs. Bissell was Miss Louise Fowler Struges of Geneva, N. Y., before her marriage about three years ago to Bachelor Bissell, and the couple have a little girl named Margaret, who, was born a few days before baby Ruth Cleveland. RICIIARD OLNEY, attorney attorney, is one of the best known corporation lawyers in New England, and for several years he has been attorney for the Boston and Maine railroad. He is a well known Boston Democrat and a man of large wealth. His income from his practice is said to be $50,(00 a year. His win ter residence is in the fashionable part of Boston, and he has a summer place near Gray Gables on Buzzard's bay, where he has been the friend and com panion of President Cleveland. Mr. Olney has twice refused the proffer of a seat on the supreme bench of Massa chusetts. One year, merely to oblige his party friends, he accepted the Democratic nomination for attorney general, but was defeated. The only time he ever bolted the Democratic ticket was when General Butler ran for governor. J. STERLING MORTON, secretary of agriculture, was born at Adams, Jefferson county, N. Y., April 22, 1832. He was graduated from Union college. Removing to Nebras ka, he became the editor of the Ne braska City News, was twice elected to the territorial legislature and in 1858 became the acting governor. HIe ran three times for governor of the state, but was defeated. For years he has devoted himself to the cultivation of trees and the preservation of forests. He is the father of what is known as Arbor Day. His wife died 12 years ago, but he has four bright sons--Paul, who receives $12,000 a year as vice president of a big coal company at Chicago; Joy, Mark and Carl. Each one of the young men has already been very successful in some branch of busi ness. THE INAUGURAL BALL. One of the great features of the ad vent of a new administration at Wash ington is the inaugural ball at the pension building, when thousands of brilliant men and beautiful women from all over the country and from every part of the civilized world gath er in the great ballroom, dance a very little, look on and promenade most. People are generally supposed to dance at a ball, but when 10,000 of them are crowded into a single ball room-even though its dimensions be 316 feet long by 116 feet broad-there is very little room for terpsichorean enjoyment, and still less comfort for those who dance and those who do not. At an inaugural ball the much abused "wall flower" is in his or her glory, for dancing is not only almost a phy sical impossibility, but it is also con sidered rather bad form. The inaugural ball always occurs the evening following the inaugura tion of a president. The court of the pension building was first cleared of its file cases and other office furniture and used as a ball room in 1885, when [Concluded on fourth page.)