People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — THE INAUGURATION [ARTICLE]

THE INAUGURATION

Borne of the Features Contemplated for the Affair of March 4 at Washington. Washington, Nov. 25.—President Cleveland’s inauguration on the 4th of next March promises to be participated in by the largest body of people and to be accompanied by the most unique and picturesque features which hive characterized an inauguration sine- ie days of Jackson. The regular press dispatches announce that a vestibuied train loaded with citizens of Bloomington, IIL, will bring Adlai E. Stevenson to Washington for the inauguration, and that 100 members of the Randall club of Philadelphia will march in the procession escorting Grover Cleveland from the capital to the white house. Scarcely a day has passed since it becaqte known that Cleveland and Stevenson were elected that some picturesque Jefiture of the inauguration has not hEn announced. The 200 horsemen .worn Virginia, headed by Gen. Fitzhlgh Lee, who marched in the inaugural procession eight years ago, are lo form the nucleus of a grar.p band of horsemen from several southern states. There will be a regiment of Texas rangers in the procession, and another regiment of Georgians wearing the peculiar buckskin splits and coonskin caps characteristic Of the Georgia cracker. Tammany hqs promised to turn out 10,000 strong and to exhibit in the parade a real uncageu tiger as well as the huge owl which wks no conspicuous a feature of the Auditorium hotel where JTammany made its quarters during the convention. But the Tammany owl is to be outdone by the Jacksonian organization of Washington which has organized for the parad| a rooster 15 feet high made of canvasi and covered with feathers.