Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-12
IT Is Now Cocktail" Fairbanks.

The story is now going tn" rounds
that Fairbanks boom has gone
giimmcring down the corridors Of
time. from simple mistake he made
in manu- while entertaining President
Roosevelt on Decoration day. Moth
inr is better known than that Mr..
Fairbanks is Il prohihitioniSt OF the
most radical kind. that he is SO OPP
posed To alcohol in all its forms that
E,r attained the mann. of the Batter
milk candidate. from making II his
steady campaign drink out west,
where reverence furany human being
does not bar them from the shafts of
vii and sarcasm. 1t WAS at Il lunch
con given hy Fairbanks. to forty Of
his adlIrrrntS, that Somebody whis
p,.rcd into the host $ ear the famous
admonition attributed to the cxccu-
tivrs Of the CarolinaS.
1t WIS taking rather an unfair add
vantage of Il ruan who was nursing Il
boom. it is true. but emergencies re-
Quirc decisive action. and-the guests
surely looked eXpectant! SO the tel
rphone and q nearby club are to
blame for the feat of legerdcman
whereby forty cocktails, each with Il
cherry on Il toothpick. were immedi-
ltely placed in front of the forty
guests. That is why the national
drink now seems very probable to be
4 political issue in the Presidential
campaign next year. The fact that
Fairbanks has hitherto furnished only
the ice, at all entertainments, will
not avail him in cxtenuatiOn of the
course hitherto pursued Of turning
down his glass when the seductive
fluid passed his way.
This detection from the course of
strict sObriety is the cause of all
sorts of comment at political head
quarters in the East. A Senator in
Washington says that Fairbanks
should not be sidetracked by q cock
tail switch, and gives as a reason
that Washington, if memory was not
at fault, originated the cocktail.
Washington and cherries lever since
the tree incidenD have been closely
associated, and cherries and cock
tails are one and the same thing.
The manager of an uptown hotel at
the National Capital said, - was
surprised when read the cocktail
story. Fairbanks has always stopped
here, and his favorite drink has been
a Fairbanks cocktail-a glass of but
termilk with a radish in it,
Any attempt to discredit the
cocktail will act as boomerang,
declared the head waiter of the Cafe
Martin, New York. Its as much
part Of American life as the Declar-
alton of Independence Cocktails
are sent ahead of a course to avert
indigestion" said the floor walker of
the Hotel Aston. 1t would be as
unreasonable to chop the coffee at
the other end of the route, as to illim-
mate the cherry float as an appetiz-
err" And here is the commercial
view from Forty-second street
fruit-dealer, What is to become of
the cherry industry, if the cocktail
is abolished?"
And here again, is the practical
view of his trainer, Tom Sharkey:
'Twon't hurt Charley a bit. I've
talked with all the brewery men,
beer-peddlers and cocktail mixers,
and they're for him to q hop, and
don't forget that the suds vote counts
some" If Fairbanks decides upon
distributing cocktails during the can
vass, they will never get done count
ing votes for him." was the comment
of a BOwery statesman. and it won't
cost him SO very much either. You
know he carries his own refrigerating
plant"
The cocktail is essentially an Amer
lean drink, and this incident compels
general recognition of the fact. 1t
has ever been so regarded by foreign
ers who retain a lingering memory of
its charm, which, when they return
on an another visit increases as Sandy
Hook is neared. A Frenchman was
one of them, who rushed to the near
est saloon on landing. but unfortu-
nately forgot the name of the drink.
I want drink-vat you call him;
by gar! l forget re name. You put
ie sucre in re tumbler; zen &c ice, zen
re eau de rin, zen. You mean .
cocktail, don't your interrupted the
tipple-mixer. "Oh, oui, om" ex-
claimed the delighted customer OH,
see roostaire viz re big fethere!'
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