Show ODELLIS 5 INAUGURATED v I Assumes n Gubernatorial l Mantle 0 Shed She SheLb by SPEECH t t NEW NW GOVERN OB OI SAYS HE HZ WILL TRY THY TO OBEY LAW Albany X N 1 Y T Jan M L Benjamin B BOdell Odell Oden Jr was today inaugurated go gornor gov o of New York York There ere was a a I greater outpouring of people and a grander Jay than hae have at attended attended tended tende a ceremony of or character for tor many years year Over O national guardsmen were in line in the escort column and In addition civilians ns who have been ben the lifelong friends and neighbors neighbor of the new executive and who had come to this city to attest their friendship Governor Odell Odel Governor Gornor Roosevelt and the other members of the te executive tire tive party entered entel d the chamber chambor at the thenon noon non hour and ad were greeted geed with wIt ap 1 us Rt Hi Rev William Crosswell Doane opened the th ceremony with prayer In welcoming the new governor Governor Roosevelt said Raid Governor Odel it i becomes become from rom this moment m ment your high and solemn duty to stand at the executive head of the th greatest state within our Union a state which in point of size population wealth and wide variety of interests and of ot rises above many a av v kingdom or common commonwealth commonwealth wealth Great powers are given you on the one hand h nd and on the other hand had your task tak is neither neith r light nor easy eay But you come to it i with wit the special ability and special training which pe peculiarly p fit ft you to perform it and well en In a sense a governors term term D begins be begins gins with his election lecton for as a r soon sn as elected he must begin to make ready read fOr his exacting x and engrossing duties dutes The Th earnest y ave v r us of the way In which you jou these duties dutie and of the spirit in which you approach them is such that we e have havethe havethe havethe the right to express not merely the hope but the confident belief belef that at atthe atthe atthe the end of your jour our term as governor you OU will wi have hav won the right to stand with that list of public servants whose hose mem memory memory memory ory the great geat Empire Emp re state delights to hold in peculiar honor N Odell Odeli Odel Maies Maes Address Addes Governor Odell Odel then delivered his in inaugural Inaugural augural address in which he said The burdens of taxation should be beso beso beso so adjusted as to fall fal lightly upon those who can ill il afford aford to bear them and b be borne more generously by b those who have received from the state protection and rights which have given to their vast ast interests interest the success they deserve Combination in restraint of individual rights should be curbed and a welcome I extended to all an whose energy and genius will wi add to the lustre and fame of the Empire state and aid us in up upholding upholding upholding holding our business and commercial supremacy The care of our wards should be b as generous as their necessities necessities sites may require never extravagant and never neer niggardly To the governor is the ex execution execution euton and to the legislature the la law lawmaking making makin power of the commonwealth The lutes are separate and distinct and can ean never be combined without a serious impairment In the efficiency of I both It I shall shaH he be my m object therefore to keep Jeep strictly strict within the letter and spirit of the law and to give gie effect to such acts of the legislature as may ma masem seem sem to me to be in the direction of public good withholding approval only when such measures 5 fall fal below this standard In thus aiding ai ing in the consummation te of all aU a I shall shaH be guided 1 solely by the give to the man mandates mandates mandates dates of our our constitution their full fun ef effect feet and to the wishes of tho our people their full ful purport t If I in the performance of these the duties I shall in a measure toe The e as a suc sue successful successful as a have so many man of ot my predecessors predecessors cers if upon the threshold of a new century with all al of its possibilities the positive and affirmative action acton of the incoming can ean aid in solving soling those great Questions which so much interest us I hall hahl hal feel as a much pride in the contemplation of such re results result suits sult as you do o sir as you look back bac upon the success which has attended your administration The oath of was s then admin administered administered by b Secretary Secreta of ot State State John T McDonough This concluded the cere ceremony ceremony mon mony and the band played and the audi audience e cheered Governor Odell held the usual chamber noonday reception In the ex cx e I |