Show TAKES x OATH OF OffiCE 1 Address Tess of o Welcome by Retiring Re ir iring ing Executive an and Response I by New Governor STATE CAPITOL CROWDED x FORECAST OF WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED rED or os Albany Alban Jan ICharles E Hughes was waste te day inaugurated as of New tn in the ot of a large 1 ye r f m men n and women representing the va clUes cities of the state The ceremonies m itt the capitol occupied lIttle more than half batt an hour Bishop Burke Roman Catholic red ared a prayer at the opening of the pro whIch closed wIth pronounced by Bishop Doane Protestant The rho oath of office was ered by B or of State Whalen following came the address of welcome by the retiring governor to the incoming gover nor and the tho response of the latter both bothi i t The inauguration W was S preceded by It parade ot of various companies and corn com wands of the Third brigade National Guard or of New Retiring Governors Address The retirIng governor Francis 15 W Hi Hig in welcoming hiS successor said Upon the shoulders ot of the chief executive Uv tive ot of this must rest heavy bur imposed by constitutions and customs cus cust toms t To execute the tho laws to recommend Iso measures or of legislation to exercise r with judgment and dIscernment to tod tod d the liberties and enforce the rights I P f people those duties which try tir t mental moral and physical strength to tc the utmost To this high office the peo kle ot of the state reposing well deserved in your Independence patriot r m ability and you J I welcome you OU and with you jOU God Response of f Governor Hughes Governor Hughes after aCter a few words of to the administration of Gov Higgins addressed himself to his frilow How citizens saying In part We Vo have reason to congratulate our that coincident with our prosperity is emphatic assertion or of popular J and a keen koen resentment of public longs There Thero is 15 no panacea in l legisla hl 1 or legislative action for aU all the Ills of which spring from the frailties and II defects ot of the human nature of its mhers n But this thin furnishes no lor complacent Inactivity and no reason fir 1 toleration of wrongs made possible ay y the defective or Inadequate legislation J by administrative Uvo partiality or Whether or not we Wc have lows laws enough 1 vim certainly have enough of and the question is not as ac to toh I the h quantity but as to the quality ot of our fit sent and our proposed enactments Need of the Hour Slowly but surely the people have nar the tho opportunities for selfish ag und and the demand ot of this hour bour and ft f all hours Is not allegiance to phrases It i sympathy with every aspiration for fort t betterment of conditions and a sin cero cere and patient effort to understand every need and to ascertain in the light ot of experience the means best adapted to moet meet it ft It Is the tho capacity for tor such close examination without heat or disqualify Ing prejudice which distinguishes the con on effort from vain endeavors to change human nature by changing the forms of government It must free freely 1 be recognized that many of the tho evils ot of which Tie we complain have their source tn in the law itself In privileges carelessly granted in opportunities for prIvate aggrandizement at the expense of the people recklessly created In failure to safeguard our public interests by providing pro viding means for tor just regulation of those I enterprises which depend on the use of I I pUblic franchises Wherever tho law I gIves unjust advantage wherever it falls fails by suitable prohibition or regulation to protect the Interests interest ot of the people wherever wherever ever the power derived from the state Is turned against the state there is not only room but urgent necessity for tor the asser assertion tion of the authority of the state to en enforce force torce the common right Government or of Laws We are area a government of laws and not ot of men We Va IndivIdual caprIce to defined duty The essentials of o our r liberties are expressed in constitutional enactment removed from the risk of tern tem temporary agitation But the security ec rity of our government de pito Its constitutional guarantees Is found in the intelligence and public spirit ot of Its citizens and Its abil abilIty ability Ity to call to the work ot of administration men ot of sIngle minded devotion to the pub public lie lic interests who make unselfish service to thiS state a poInt ot of knightly honor If In administration we make the start stait dard efficiency and not partisan advantage tage It if in executing the laws Jaws we deal impartially it if In making the tho laws there Is fair and intelligent action with force to each exigency wo we shall disarm reckless and selfish agitators and take from the enemies of our OUi peace their vantage grOund or of attack It is my intention to employ my Con ut ion ai powers to thIs end I believe in inthe inthe the sincerity and good sense of the peo people Ie I believe that they are intent In ha hay haying v Ing government which recognIzes no fa favored interests and which is not conducted In any part for tor selfish ends Thc They will not bo be and should not be content with less It II |