Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-04-03

| II General Grants use of tobacco was
excessive, there are very many men in
seeming vigorous health. and of very
active habits. who must regard themselves
as very Incorporate users of the stimu-
liant. Among public men it is the excep
ton to find one who does not use tobacco
| in one form or another. sometimes in two
ways, and almost all of them firmly be-
! lieve that tobacco does not hurt them.
Judge Kelley's case has been cited as one
where cancer was caused by the excessive
use of Tobacco, but he told the writer that
the cancerous affection of the cheek from
which he suffered was due to the habit of
going to sleep with guild of tobacco
tucked into his check and resting his
head on that side. Judge Kelley, now
20 years old, smoked and used the best
fine cut immoderately for fifty years. but
he has abandoned the habit.
Vice president Colfax for many years
smoked ten or fifteen very strong cigars
every day He was suddenly attacked by
serious vertigo while vice president and
he attributed it to the narcotic poison. He
at once stopped smoking; vet vice-presi-
dent Wilson, who never used tobacco.
was stricken almost precisely as Mr.. Col
fax was. The late Senator Carpenter
frequently smoked two boxes of cigars a
week
q Ex-president Arthur smokes less than
formerly, lighting his cigar now seldom
before dinner, but when in the late night
hours he was busted with work his COM
panion vas cigar. sometimes three or
four. DR.. Hammond is reported to have
once said that generally three or four CT
CARS after dinner harmed few men of aver
age constitution, and Mr.. Arthur thought
they did him good. At all events. all of his
messages to Congress were written under
the gentle stimulus of fragrant Havana.
Most of Mr.. Arthur's Cabinet officers were
good smokers. Mr.. Frelinghuysen did
not use tobacco. though Assistant Secre-
tary OF State, Mr. Davis. liked good cigars
and plenty of them Tobacco was the
only thing that ever made Secretary
Chandler turn pale. 1t was rank poison
to him. and though he tried many years
ago to overcome the evil effects, as be-
came good politician, vet he never could
But General Gresham was great smoker.
He smoked on the public streets, at his
work and wherever he could. Secretary
Teller liked cigar that would last a long
tliIiCs anu was lot vel oCSlCttiS
Lincoln smokes good many pretty stiff
cigars every day, and Attorney General
Brewster liked one with body to it.
General Sherman is a pretty constant
smoker. and he smokes as he does every
thing else, with nervous haste. so that the
cigar is more than half chewed up. Cen
eral Sheridan likes good black Reina af-
ter each meal, with one or two thrown in
between whites.
Vice-President Hendricks likes cigar,
but dearly loves the sweet Detroit fine cut
which he buys in bulk. Perhaps Senator
Frye is the most persistent smoker of the
senators. If there be a long session in
the Senate, he will leave his seat several
times in the course of it. and retire to the
cloak-room for smoke. In his commit
room and other places of unrestraint, he
frequently lights one cigar at the stub of
another. Poker Jack Bowen from Color
ado, smokes constantly, and when he can't
smoke he has paper of fine cut at hand.
The two New Hampshire Senators, Blair
and Pike, do not use tobacco. nor do Sen
ator Dawes and Hoar. The new Senator
Chace of Rhode Island, does not smoke,
but Mr.. Edmunds smokes few choice
cigars day, and now and then rolls a
little pill of navy plug under his tongue.
Both Senators Iiawley and Platt of Con-
necticut, are constant smokers, General
!. Hawley not disdaining a good old-fash-
, Toned chew. 1t is hardly possible for any
one to smoke more, bigger or
stronger cigars than the living skele-
ton called Malone does, and his colleague,
Riddleberger, is an almost constant smok-
er. All Of the Southern senator's, except
German and Joe Brown, use tobacco. and
most of them use it in two ways, Jones.
of Florida, is not particular about the
flavor of his cigars. and it is standing
joke among senators when they get a poor
cigar to send it to him. He smokes it as
happily as though it cost dollar
Jones, of Nevada, on the other hand. will
smoke none but the best, and he makes
away with ten or twelve every day. Beck
aside from a few strong cigars a day. likes
to titillate his nostrils with pinch of
snuff now and then, but he does not do it
so publicly as Senator Thurman did.
; Young Senator kenna is great smoker,
and John Logan puffs fiercely at big black
cigars. John Sherman smokes little
cigars. light colored. and has them made
specially for him. Ben Harrison likes a
pipe in his office, but is more often seen
on the street with cigar than without one
Senator Conger likes to smoke three
cigars day. Senator Allison would
rather smoke good cigar and bluff out a
king full than to dine at the most cpl
; curean table. David Davis was a great
smoker. Senator Conkling practically
gave up the habit some years ago, but he
occasionally cuts cigar in two and chews
the cut ends. Dorsey has been for years
constant smoker from the time he arose
: till he retired.
Mr.. Randall does not use tobacco at all
but Speaker Carlisle would be frantic if
he had,to go long without quid. He
does not smoke. Holman chews con-
stantly, but does not smoke. Sunset Cox
does not use tobacco. nor does A. S. Hew.
lit, nor Governor Dingley; but there are
very few members in the House who do
not smoke or chew, very many practicing
both habits. Congressman Miller of New
York. has made many friends with his
superb Reinas, and ex-Congressman
Morse of Boston, was reputed to smoke
the finest cigars that came to Washington.
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