The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-05
THE TASTES OF PUBLIC MEN.
5Different styles Of Drinks That they Afrect.

James G. Blaine primes up on teal
Attorney General Garland is teeto-
taller.
Speaker Carlisle takes bottle of wine
with his lunch.
Secretary Whitney is fond of cham
pagne.
And Gems. Sherman and Van Vliet
think there is no drink so good as old
Kentucky bourbon.
Drinking at Washington is as common
now as it vas in the days of Daniel
Webster, and men will continue to drink
as long as che Government exists. There
is less intoxication and drunkenness, how
ever, than ever before, and the human
appetite comes under better control year
after year. Yon will.rarely see aeon.
gresham intoxicated now, though the
House was full of drunken statesmen id
the days before the war, and the prohibi-.
tion sentiment which is springipg up all.
over the country has made many pub.
lie man teetotaler. Senator Wilson, ,of
Iowa, believes that prohibition5wi besa
national question; and he drinks nothing
stronger than water. Senator Colquitt,
of Georgia, lectures on temperance, and
the only liquor that Joe Brown drinks is
Adams ale. Brown wasss temperance
man in Georgia when it was dangerous
to be one. Heis pillar of the Baptist
Church, and he believes in pure water
land lots Of 1T Blair is also 8 teetotaler,:
and Spooner, of Wisconsin, believes that
strong drinks should be very delicateiy
handled. spooner read q. temperance
|lectureto one of his Senatorial friends
the other day in strong language, telling
him he was going to the devil and that
he: had no business to let his mouth run,
away with hislbrains.
Garland left off drinking years ago..
making the resolution to quit one day.
while in che cemetery at Little Rock.
He here looked at grave after grave Of.
young mel, whom he had known. when
he was young, each Of whom had started
life as wellsof' as himself, but all Of
whom had been literally ruined byliquor.
3Ashe looked at the graves he communedi
with himself: aThese, my young friends,
are all gone, andit is easy to see what
has carried them away. Is itnot strange
that I have been spared, and will the
same fate happen to me as happened to
them?p And, as he thought, he decided
that he had already had his share Of
alcohol, and he there made up his mind
that he wouldn't drink any body else's
share, He swore OFF then, and the story
lis that he has never touched drop since,
One Of the brightest Of the bon vivants
of Washington during the past few years:
was Jim Belford, Of Colorado, and he
would have held a much higher place in
politics, had it not been for his love Of
liquor. He was SO full of.wit that his
friends liked to loosen his tongue with
old Kentucky bourbon, and many Of the
speeches which set the country roaring
slipped ousof Belford,s mouth when its
machinery was oiled with whiskey: He
finally saw. however, that he could not
jremain.in Washington and keep sober
and he dropped out of politics and went. 4
back to Denver. I saw him there last
summer. He was as bright as e silver; a
dollar, as straight as string, and 1t ne told
me he, had not taken 9 drop for months.
He said he believed that prohibition
would eventually rule this country, and,
as an argument, adduced the fact that
the cause of temperance had 20 100000
supporters in the wives OF the voters OF
the country, who could plead their ca cause
in their husbands " ears when they lay
beside their mouths on the pillow az
night. Ihere IS no such lnhuence IN
the world as this said Judge Bellord,
"and the result is as inevitable as the
ADVANCE ol tlne. -
There was q member OF the last Senate
who remained in chronic state OF IN
toxication and ugllness during the whole
session, and the Senators who have been
ruined by liquor are many. WILLARD
Salisbury OF Delaware, the protner OF |
Eli Salisbury, was one, an and John Ran
dolph, of Roanoke, VAS often thought
mad when he was merely drunk. Daniel
Webster frequently drank to excess and and
Cheyalier bacourt in his "reminiscences
OF Diplomat 5 states that ne was drunk
at a White Honse dinner al1 a. sWnicn ne
was present. weosser was ionu o13o.a
bourbon ana ne was am aaepI az punca'
making. De was q n'gn liver ana II
Kept him IN debt 10 NIL Inc stomacns OF |
himself and his friends. II was not con.
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