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Show JOHN Hi IN JjfflCE New York Now Has a Democrat For Governor Albany, N. Y., Jan. 2. John Alden Dix, a Democrat, was inaugurated governor gov-ernor of Now York stato at noon today.- He succeeds Gov. Horace White, -who became chief legislative last October Oc-tober when Governor Charles E. Hughes, resigned to become an associate asso-ciate justice of the supreme court. There was a brilliant gathering, in the assembly chamber, which had been appropriately decorated for the occasion, Gov. Wliito relinquishing tho office of chief magistrate to Gov Dix, the first Democratic governor to assume, as-sume, office In eighteen years. The governor then delivered his inaugural address. He said in part: "The end of all government should be the preservation of true liberty that liberty which guarantees to ev-erv ev-erv man the fullest measure of individual indi-vidual right consistent with a proper maintenance of the rights of all others oth-ers and at the same time preserves and maintains the collective rights of all of the members of the state. "Under our constitution such liberty we possess in New York. It must be our constant aim to so strengthen and extend the legislature of the personal and inalienable rights by the Individual Individ-ual as to bring to the stato the greatest growth and highest development develop-ment of which our citizenship and resources re-sources aro capable. "I am succeeding to the governorship governor-ship when business training and understanding un-derstanding seems absolutely essential essen-tial to the proper administration of public affairs. "Great as ,are the public resources of our commonwealth, expenditures and outgo have grown in a measure out of all proportion to the revenue of the state and we seem committed to nn outlay, which will not alono tax to its fullest uxtcnt our income,-but demand de-mand that we draw on tho future in a way which. n my opiuiou Is of very doubtful wisdom." oo- |