PAGE TWO
THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1913.
COL ROOSEVELT ON WHAT HE
IIS
Never Drank a Cocktail or
Highball, He Says a
Libel Trial.
TUB country at large inny now
knovr just what Colonel Roose
velt does and does not drink.
Ho has told it himself, a com
plete statement as to his drinking hab
its having been part of his testimony In
the trial at Marquette. Mich., of his
$10,000 libel suit against George A.
TTcwctt, publisher of the Ishpemlng
Iron Ore.
During the lnt presidential campaign
there was published In Iron Ore the as
sertion that "IlooRoVelt frequently gets
drunk, nnd all his Intimates know it."
That assertion wns the basis of the
libel suit
Colonel Koosevclt testified that he
never gets drank and that ho uses
liquor very sparingly When ho does
drink, he drinks wine aB a rule, he
said. Ho never uses whisky or brandy
except for medicinal purposes, never
drinks beer tit all, because ho doesn't
like thfe taste of It; never made a prac-
1
Photoa by American Press Association.
Tim couirrnousE at siaikjuette, judqe
ITiANNIQAN, COLONEIi BOOSnVELT AND A
WITNESS.
,tlco of drinking at a bar and hasn't
drunk at one during the last twenty
years, ho declared.
Ho asserted, further, that ho never
did drink a cocktail or a highball and
that ho lets liquors, mixed drinks, ales
nnd porters strictly alone.
Four physicians corroborated Colonel
Roosevelt. Two appeared in person
nnd two by depositions. The deposi
tions were tltosc of Drs. John B. Mur
phy and Arthur D. Bevan, who attend
ed Colonel Itoosevclt at Mercy hospital
In Chicago after ho hal been shot by a
fanatic at Milwaukee last fall.
The physicians agreed that Colonel
Roosevelt's recovery would havo been
fllowcr and might havo been impossible
had he been addicted to liquor. Drs.
Murphy and Bevan said they did not
notice an odor of liquor on his breath
when they attended him.
Great For Marquette.
Irrespective of the sides taken by its
citizens, Marquctto aa a whole rejoiced
when the trial began. Tho town bo
coino temporarily 'the center of nation
al attention, as far 03 Colonel Roose
velt's admirers were concerned, at any
rate.
It was indeed a distinguished group
of men who gathered thero to testify.
Tho list of witnesses Included tho
names of governors, former cabinet
members, eminent physicians and high
olllcials, post and present.
It fell to tho lot of Judgo Richard
Flannlgan to hear this rcmarkablo
trial of. a former president s charge
that ho had been slandered by tho
editor of a trade Journal. Judgo Flan
nlgan Immediately won far or with
tho many women who wero Interested
in hearing tho evidence by ordering
that certain good seats bo virtually re
served for their use.
Colonel Roosevelt and Nowott took
keats very near each other when tho
trial began, but did not loot at each
other. Colonel RooeoveltfB attorneys,
Mr. Pound of Detroit, W. B. HDl of
Marquette and William EC. Van Ben
nchoten of New York, sat at tho coun
sel table with William A. Belden of
Ishpemlng, nornco B. Andrews of
Cleveland and Mr. Bcldcn's assistant,
Thomas Clancy, representing Nowott
Tho day the trial began Judgo Flan-
DOES
NOT
Dl
Drinks Some Wine, but Takes
Whisky or Brandy Only
as Medicine.
nigan received from Minneapolis a
telegram which read:
"Don't let this sensational trial con
tinue until I have arrived."
The message wns signed Jacob Miles.
Judge Flannlgan turned the message
ver to Frank Tyree, one of Colonel
Roosevelt's former body guards. He
telegraphed the chief of police at Min
neapolis, who wired back that Miles
was Insane and had been arrested.
Several amusing incidents bright
ened the preparations for the trial.
Colonel Roosevelt and his party ar
rived In Marquette at o'clock in
tho morning nnd were warmly greet
ed by a crowd nt the station. As tho
easterners stepped from tho train it
suddenly dawned on them that the
climate on Inko Superior was differ
ent. Looking out of the car windows on
the overeonted crowd lined up to meet
them, James Sloan, secret service
agent, turned around in a punic strick
en way and said:
"Let all the men with straw hats go
out together. Then If wo are killed we
can at least die together."
Accordingly ho went out with Glfford
Pinchot, Marshal Frank Tyree, O. K.
Davis and ex-Secretary Bacon, and tho
five straw hats muted a lot of well
bred Interest on tho part of tho Inhab
itants. No Use For Cigars.
Somebody offered tho colonel a cigar.
"I tnke n cigar as often as I do a
drink of whisky," said tho colonel.
Homer Guck, editor of tho Houghton
Mining Gazette, reminded the colonel
that they had mot In Cuba.
"Just n moment," said the colonel,
pausing. "Oh, yes; you were one of
tho sentries that stopped mo on tho
bridge as I was riding into Santiago
after the surrender?"
"Yes," said Guck, "and wo made you
dig your pass out of your boot and
Photoa by American Press Association.
OPriCE OF THE ISUrEMINO WON OKE,
EDITOR NKWETT (LETT) AND HIS CHIEF
ATTOItNET, W. A. BELDEN.
show It to us. Wo were stationed
thero to beep tho soldiers from getting
into tho city and getting drunk."
"If you wero to say," replied tho
colonel, "that you stopped mo because
you saw I was riding Into Santiago to
got a drink yon would prove the most
valuabk) witness that tho defense here
could produce."
Tho drawing power of tho colonel
brought out a largo attendance. Tho
balconies of tho court were crowded
with young women, many wearing
moose buttons, and members of tho bar
from all over tho country, accompanied
by their wives, surrounded tho tables
reserved for counsel. Admission was
by ticket, so that several hundred wero
turned away. ,
A Dignified Audience.
Tho evldenco was sometimes amus
ing, and a less dignified city audlenco
would havo been fined en mosso for
contempt of court for Its laughter.
But serious curiosity was tho trait of
tho Marquette gathering.
In cheerful manner the colonel's
counsel pictured tho hero, his great
feats of horseback riding, bia bunting
exploits, his African expedition, which
Mr. Pound said "was undertaken for
tho benefit of humanity and the Smith
sonian institute," and his qulcfe recov
ery after receiving tho assassin's bul
let. All these things wero brought out
to show that a man addicted to liquor
could not do theso wonderful feats.
Colonel Roosevelt mado a most Im
pressive witness for himself. With the
gestures which are so familiar in his
I COL. ROOSEVELT3 STATE
MENTS AS TO HIS DRINK
ING HABIT8.
I have never drunk a cocktail or
a highball In my life.
I don't smoke, and I don't drink
beer.
I never have drunk whisky or
brandy except when tho doctor pro
scribed It or possibly on some oc
casion nfter great exposure.
Tho only wines that I havo drunk
have been whlto wines, Madeira,
champagno or occasionally a glaBa
of Bherry.
At public dinners I sometimes
drink a glass of champagne- or per
haps two.
At homo I oten at dinner will
drink a wineglass or two wine
glasses of Madeira.
Mint Juleps I very rarely drink.
Since I left tho Whlto Bouse, four
years ago, to tho best of my mem
ory I havo drunk mint Juleps twice.
During tho last fourteen years I
do not think I have drunk whisky
straight or with water mono than
half a dozen times.
As for brandy, I nover drink It
any more than I do whisky when I
am at homo or on a hunting trip,
but on very hard campaign trips I
have frequently Just before going
to bed drunk ono or two goblets of
milk with a teaspoonful of brandy
to the goblet.
I never mado a practice of drink
ing at a bar, and I don't bellovc
that I have drunk at a' bar for
twenty odd years.
I never In my life, whlto In tho
Whlto IIouso or anywhere else,
havo over left a room for the pur
pose of getting a drink between
meals.
Since I have been of ago I have
never under any circumstances been
In even the smallest degree under
tho Influence of liquor.
speeches, with emphatic nods of tho
head, with words that were flung hot
from his tongue, ho looked the jurors
in tho face nnd hammered home his
evidence.
no talked fast, his volco was good,
and every sentence carried to every
corner in tho room. Tho defense al
lowed him to go oa far ns ho pleased.
Many exceptions were taken, but
both Judge Flnnnlgan and the counsel
for the defense extended every cour
tesy. Tlw colonel clearly dominated
the court, counsel nnd Jury.
Many objections were mado to bis
story of his strenuous adventures In
Africa and tho circumstances involved
In the Milwaukee shooting, but tho
matter was allowed to go.
The colonel Insinuated, as did his
counsel, that tho bullet ho received In
Milwaukee might hnvo been duo to the
Nowott publication, ne repented sev
eral times the description of his ab
stemiousness. Ills counsel had him go
over time and again his caution In
handling drink.
Sir. Pound stood to the roar of the
Jury, so that in facing him tho colonel
faced the jurors. His Ignorance of tho
ways of wicked drinkers wns displayed
when bo was asked, "Colonel how
many bottles are thero In a case of
champagnef r-i
"I don't know."
"Are there eight or ten?"
"I could not toll. I don't know a
thing about It."
Colonel Roosevelt told of his early
political career, his ranch experiences
and his war and presidential history so
far ns they related to drink. Then his
counsel introduced the alleged libel.
Tho entire nrticlo was read to tho
Jury. When the sentcnoo "Roosevelt
is a grotty good liar himself" was read
there was a titter around the room, and
Judgo Flannlgan threatened tho audl
enco with expulsion.
Tells of Shooting.
"When did you first see that article T"
asked Pound.
"I think It was after I was shot and
was in Mercy hospital in Chicago,"
said tho colonel, rather grimly.
"Where wero you shot I mean tho
city in which you wero shot?" inquired
bis counsel.
The defense entered objections, as
serting that tho shooting had nothing
to do with tho case, but tho Judge al
lowed the colonel to proceed.
"I wns shot In Milwaukee, and I was
taken to Chicago. I think I saw this
article when I was in tho hospital."
"You nro now fifty-four years of
age," continued Mr. Pound. "How
often have you been drunk in your
Ufor
"I have never been drunk- or in tho
slightest degree under tho Influence of
liquor," wns tho reply.
"What use do you nwJto of spirituous
or malt liquors?"
"I do not drink beer, porter, ale or
anything of that kind. I do not llko
beer, I do not drink cKbor whisky or
brandy except under tho orders of a
doctor. I never drank a highball or a
cocktail n my life. I havo drunk eome
mint Juleps. Thero was a bed of mint
in the White House yard, but I don't
think I drank more than a dozen Juleps
In the whole time I was in tho Whlto
House."
"Did you drink them all at once, or
wero they distributed?"
"No, Indeed, not all at coco; Just a
few In a year not over twervo in the
wholo seven years I was in the White
House. I can only remember drink
ing two Binoo ono nt tho Country club
In St Louis and another In tho Arkan
sas club in little Rock, when a loving
cup was passed around.
"In thirty-four years I might have
taken two In succession, but I do not
recall it I do drink a gVaaa or two of
light wines whlto winea, for I do not
like red wines. At a public dinner I
might take a glass or two of cham
pagne. "At tho White House thero are innu
merable state dinners and cabinet din
ners. At these champagne Is served. I
may havo taken a glass of champagne
on such occasion. I never take brandy
or whisky except, ns I have described,
tinder tho direction of a doctor,"
WHITE MILLS.
A very pleasant gathering was
royally entertained Saturday evening
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Haggerty, of Cherry Ridge, In hon
or of their daughter, Marie. Games,
music and dancing were the amuse
ments of tho evening. A very de
lightful lunch was. served "by Mrs.
Haggerty and daughter, Agnes, to
the following guests: Misses Dorothy
Seomans, Esther and Myrtle Gill,
Agnes and Marie iHaggerty, Holon
Box, Erma Ham, Nellie and Clotilda
Lane, Minnie O'Rourke, Fannie
Johnson, Harold Down, Tag! Falk,
Clarence and Egbert Elmore, Clar
ence Telmler, Frank Peters, Henry
Haggerty, Emmet O'Rourke, Norman
and Earl Relfler, Albert and Fred
Haggerty, Mr. and Mrs. John Hag
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Dr. and Mrs. E. B. Gavette .motor
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on Monday.
Mrs. John Force entertained at
pinocle Saturday evening In honor
of her niece, Mrs. Stewart.
David Purcell, of New York City,
has been a guest of Mrs. Clotilda
Dorfllnger for the past week.
Misses Nellie and Kathryn Dor
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Mrs. C. H. Dorfllnger, Miss Grace
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