Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1917 — Inauguration Ceremony Today; Oath Was Taken Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Inauguration Ceremony Today; Oath Was Taken Sunday.

President Wilson took the oath of affice for his second term at noon Sun* day, in his room at the capitol and will be formally inaugurated today with public ceremonies erflecting a great national expression of Americanism. Befoie a desk piled high with executive business laid before him in the closing -hours of congress, and surrounded by member? of the official family, the president reaffirmed with uplifted hand and grave face, his promise to uphold the constitution in whatever crisis may confront the nation in the momentous f-our years to come. After he had repeated solemnly the oath taken first by Washington, a century and a quarter ago, 'he kissed the Bible at the passage reading: “The Lord is our refuge; a very present help in time of trouble.” Today the president will take the oath again on the inaugural -stand before the capitol. He m’gtot have omitted oath Sunday if he had fol-■l-owed... preced eat to established Jiycriher presidents.