| Show TEDDY WANTS TO BE IT Pittsburg Post The president and his advisers are distressed d over ove Governor desIre to O ride with the president to the th capitol on inauguration in augu ration day d ay The pres president president president ident and ChaIrman Charman Hanna have de dc decided decided that the governor will not ot ride with the president but wilt will go in a separate carriage accompanied by several members of the local commit committee tee having the Inauguration ceremonies in charge The practice is for the to accompanied be by bythe bythe bythe the retiring president but as President McKinley is his own successor there is no retiring president as distinct from rom the This situation situa ion was seized upon by several of friends as sufficient to warrant the suggestion that the should ride with the president When ques questioned questioned questioned by the amazed officials to whom the matter was broached these friends while declining to admit that they were acting on the governors specific re request request request quest said they had no doubt he would much prefer riding In the same carri carriage carriage carriage age with the president to riding in another following behind The matter was wag w debated w with ith much animation not only by Chairman Hanna and his po political political political friends and members of or the committee on arrangement but by the president himself Word Vord was sent sept to Governor Roose Roosevelt veR velt today that there was no precedent for the governors proposition that there was no recollection or record of ofa ofa ofa a elect riding to the capitol with a and that the practice of the past would be ad adhered adhered hered tiered to The governors friends took issue with this statement st said that the present situation 1 had never had any parallel pa lIel and nd that while as a rule the lect was accompanied only bf h b the retiring president this time the president would be alone unless Gov Gayer Gover Governor er nor Roosevelt rode with Ith him The McKinley managers n gers however have fortified themselves by careful re me research research search and replied that a similar ques question question question tion had arisen when Grant was about to be inaugurated the second time and that he h was accompanied by three members of the local committee of ar arrangements arrangements arrangements and not by the |
