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Show PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TAKES OATH OF OFFICE With Manifestations of Profound Sorrow and Appreciation of New Responsibilities, President Roosevelt Pledges Himself Him-self to Con'.tuic McKinley's Policies and Asks Cabinet Not to Resign. i President KHMve1t fix it. ih oiitli whlrh elolhed him with iit.itriiv nt :i:lo oVlncU Siilm-Uv r.ft,i norni In the .iiirtirv of the reideiti-r or At.-...-.-Wiliox. personal friend t.li aim .. he MtopMl earlier lutlifweek ulx-n the physiciiuiH Ihouylit rrcttdetil Me-Khiley Me-Khiley would recover fmm ihe worn,, I Inflict), hy the anii. in I lie uv-euce uv-euce of all the ineiiitMT nf the ciiiiint't In the city of HufTalo, and a few persons! per-sons! friends. The scene was a umvt anVcltni. one. The new president hnd Jutt come from the Mllhtirn limine, where his prede eessor lay cold in death. Overcome by the deep erwiial sorrow he felt. In his characteristically Impulsive nay. he had gone first to the houe of mourning to offer hi condolence and ympallty to the broken-hearted widow. NKCKKTAHY ItooT OVKKHiMK. Here tn. ry Hoot, who twenty ysste ago hsd been present at a similar scoue room sfcthe Judge rend ii few words at the lime and the president in a fcltoiig voice and without a tremor and with hi raised hand a steitd.v as If cttrved from marble repented it after him. ' And Ihus I swear." he ended it. The hnnd dropped from hi fodc, the chin for an insiunt rested on hi breast and the illenee retmniied unbroken for ! a couple of minutes us 1 hough the new ; president of the 1' nlled states was of. fering priiyor. Judge II .! broke it. saying: "Mr. president, please attach your signs ture. ' And the president turning to a small tnhle nearby wrote "Theodore Itooscvell" at the bottom of the document docu-ment In a firm hand. The tsr-reschlng significance of this pledge to rontluue the policy of the dead president, ftiiuonnccd at ths vsry threshold of a new governmental re fflme, profoundly pressed his hearers and President Koosevelt's first stsp after af-ter taking the oath was In line with PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT. whan Arthur look th oath kfter tin dtath of another preahleut, who fell a victim to an aftium.ln'a bullet, almost broke down when h. refueled Uok-Telt, Uok-Telt, on behalf of the iiieiubura of the Cabinet of the lato president, to take the pretorltied oath. There waa not a dry eye In the room, The new prenlilvnt waa vialbly ahak-en, ahak-en, but be controlled hluiMlf. With the deep aoleiuulty of the oocaalon he announced to thou present that hla aim would be to be William McKlnley 'a auocesnor In deed aa well aa In name. Deliberately he proclaimed It In theee worda; BOOSKVKI.T WIKI, CONTINUE MCKINI.KY'H ltiMCV. "In thle hour of deep aud terrible national bereavement I wish to elate that It aha!! be my aim to ooullnue absolutely ab-solutely without variance the policy of president McKluley for the peace and prosperity aud hunor of our beloved country." Judtf llur.nl, tailing up the coithtttu-tlonnl coithtttu-tlonnl oath of olllce which had been prepared ou parchineiit.asketl the president pres-ident to raise his rltfhl hund and re-prat re-prat It after him. , There wai, a hush like death In the It redemption. k ASKS CA1I1NKT TO REMAIN. Ills first act waa to ask the member! of the cabinet to retain their portfolio. In order to aid him to conduct the fev-eminent fev-eminent on lines laid down by htm whose policy he declared he would uphold. Such an appeal waa Dot to bi resisted, and every member of tlx cabinet. Including Secretary of Htatt Hay a Ml Secretary of the Treasury Uej-e, who were communicated will In Washington, have agreed, for tin present at leant, to retain their several sev-eral portfolios. The president has made no plana el yet. He eaid he was so shocked lit the natloual calamity that had thru) new responsibilities upon him that In had bad no time aa yet to think of til. future career at Washington. Uqulry was made of the presld.at as Ui whether an uilra isslon of cob-gress cob-gress would be culled by him, aud he said that there win no fundament! law requiring the railing of cougraia together upon the succession of a vice-president to the presidency, sod that, after consultation with the cslh inet, they had decided that no such extra session would be called. |