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"A collaborative political resource." |
Governor James Rolph, Jr. Inaugural Address January 6, 1931
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| Parent | Parent Candidate |
| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Post Date | , 12:am |
| Description | To the Senate and Assembly of the State of California:
Let me open my inaugural message to the legislature by greeting you for the first time in formal assemblage and thanking you collectively for the promises of help and co-operation which so many of you individually have tendered to me since my election to the office of governor of California.
If denied such help and co-operation I would be greatly handicapped, since the ablest and most experienced of governors could accomplish little without the good will of the legislature, and I lack the benefit, enjoyed by so many of my predecessors, of long training as legislator or administrative official in handling the peculiar and difficult problems of the state government. I come to my new tasks with much diffidence. What confidence I may feel today is due to your kindly attitude, the consciousness of my own zeal to serve well our state and its people who elected me by so overwhelming a majority, and a hope that my nineteen years in the office of mayor of San Francisco will prove to have taught me something at least, of the science of government.
In assuming the duties of this great office, to which I have been called by nearly a million men and women, I bespeak the good will and co-operation of all ofmy fellow citizens regardless of affiliations in order to secure during my term of office peace and plenty to the people of the State and the greatest opportunities for their children to grow in wisdom and in grace as they grow in years.
The conventional function of an inaugural address is to outline plans and policies of political and governmental nature which the newly inducted incumbent proposes to launch and promote during his administration, and I intend to follow that course in this address; but I delay doing so in order to speak briefly of the fundamental ideas which it is the function and purpose of all true governments and wise administrations to bring about.
The Constitution of the United States declares that it is designed to promote tranquility, promote the well-being of the people, establish justice and secure the blessings of liberty; and these are the beneficent ends which I have ever in mind.
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