MAKING A PRESIDENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 47, 23 August 1902, Page 7 (Supplement)

MAKING A PRESIDENT.

Tho making of a President in the United States is a vory simple matter, us a writer iv Pearson's Magaiine for July tells:— At the appointed time tho out-going tenant of the White House, ■who is giveu precedence in everything until the hour of noon, enters tho official carriage, the Presidoiifc-elect seating himself ou his left. The carriage rolls slowly down the avenue, up the Capitol hill, to the Senate Chamber, an hour's drivo, during which the President who is leav-. ing offico docs all tho saluting to the cheers that are raised for. his successor — a somewhat trying position! The now Viai-President is sworn in before tho Senate,, and then tho new President leads the senators, to a grandstand erected on high outside, and here, in public view, takes the oath of office, and delivers an add Teas I/bat is unheard beyond a few yards' distance. This concluded, the President returns along the same route, in the sanio style in which ho came. President Roosevelt became President in the simplest manner conceivable. Ho was away shooting on the Adirondacks on the dioy when President M'Kinley died, and! was summoned by telegraph, returning post haste to take up the veins of government. On reaching Buffalo he went at once to Dr. Milbum's hcuse, where President M'Kinley breathed his last, and where the Cabinet were, in waiting. Adjourning, with tho Cabinet, to tho house of a friend, the new President at once took the oath. "Theodore Roosevelt," said Judge Hazel, "hold up your right hand." Mr. Roesevelt complying, $ie Judge then read tho oath, which was repeated after him : "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully executo the office of President of tho United States, and will to tho best of myiability j preserve, protect, and defend the United States, and thus I swear." He then signed the form of the oath, and the short ceremony wag over.— Westminster Budget.