Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1894 — A NON-PARTISAN INAUGURATION. [ARTICLE]

A NON-PARTISAN INAUGURATION.

Gov. McKinley Again Takes the Oath as Ohio’s Governor. Wiliam McKinley was inaugurated as Governor of Ohio for the second time, Monday, with more than usual ceremony. Col. Kilbourne, a Democrat, was chairman of the committee oi reception, Lincoln Fritter, of the Thurman Club, was chief marshal of the day. Allen W. Thurman and other Democrats were conspicuous in the proceedings of the day. Gov. McKinley was sworn in by Chief Justice Bradbury oi the Supreme Court. The inaugural address of Gov. McKinley was nonpartisan, and was devoted to the duties of his office and of citizenship. In regard to the business situation Gov. McKinley said: —— - My fellow citizens, we can not be indif ferent, even if we would, to current busi ness conditions, nor unmindful that today many of our fellow-citizens are without work because they can not find anything to do. There are homes in the State which less than a year ago were filled with cheer and contentment that are now haunted with hunger. Our hearts go out in feeling sympathy to these unfortunate ones of our fellow-citizens, and our purses should open to them in sweet and substantial charity. The present situation affords a great opportunity to all of us to demonstrate the love we bear our fellow-men, and if rightly improved will cause us to realize that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Those who' have should—and I know will—give to those who have not, and people of our great State will permit none of our women or children to suffer for necessaries of life. God grant that this scourge to our industrial prosperity may not bo long distant when business confidence shall again come to every community, when industry shall resume its former activity, and when the men now in enforced idleness shall have work and wages, and the homes now in poverty shall be blessed in plenty.