The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-16

| while you'll run across Democrat
who is a teetotaler," said the man. but
that's about all"
j 1t is true that the average Vermonter
| doesn't resort to the saloon. He pre-
fers his at his own sideboard or at his
| locker at the club. Many of the older
transplanted generation have never
quite gotten over their habit OF taking
! their behind the door free from the
pryirg eyes Of the curious. But there
is In the State a goodsy NUMBER OK
desirable citizens who would hesitate
to vote for a drinking man for high
public ONCE.
Perhaps those who persist in spread
ing the story OF the Colonefs drink
ing habits did 50 with an Interior OBJ
;ect in mind. but they did il and seem
ed to be convinced Of the truth OF the
story.
| The Colonel had hardly got started
with mis- Bennington speech, where he
made his initial bow in the Vermont
campaign, before the drinking story
as set asoing. The Individual who
starts the yarn Is usually to be found
in the outskirts OF the crowd. One
doesn't have to look long to find the
scandalizer. You'll find him in group
Of men ard women conspicuous by
their "Abyssinian" treatment OF the
Colonel. They don't enthuse over his
oratory or his calculation Of his plat
form and scowl when others laugh.
Big crowd" remarked an oniooker
, to a man at Bennington.
Yep" was the lacon'. reply.
Are you q Bull Moose?"
Guess I hain't.' said the vermonter.
cd n
fredest smartest man We had, but have
changed my mind"
Why"
I'm told he's taken to drinking
heavily"
The next stop was Manchester, the
, Mecca Of rich golfers. mostly from New
York, Philadelphia and the West Hotel
rates are high and the undesira Bile cit
izen is barred.
The crowd was waiting for Roose-
Welt, including the exclusive people or
the swell notes.-the kind OF people
the Colonel says that voted against
Abe Lincoln and FOR Stephen A.
Douglas for United States Senator IN
Illinois before the war-"Cotton
whizs"-"SIavery whights." Guess thu
man the Globe representative inter-
viewed must have been one Of the lat
ter.
The Colonel is looking fine." re-
marked the Globe man.
Look finer II he wouldn't drink 50
much answered the man addressed.
sure the Colonel drinks?" asked the
Globe man.
Sur. as I'm standing here"
Ever see him drink asked the
Globe man.
! NO. hut a friend Of mine who be-
longs 10 the Union League Club In
New York told me so and I'll believe
hin; as against Roosevelt"
A. Rutland q prosperous looking cit
izcn sat in his automobile viewing the
crowd. but didn't seem to be par
,;cuIarlv interested in what the Bull
Moose candidate for President was
saying. . 80.
I'll. Colonel. isn't IT." Observed the
Globe man
~pecorated for the Colonel your
grandmother vas the reply Deco
rated for carnival week
They've closed the stores In honor
., the coloners visit said the Globe
! man.
wrong again. my friend. we close
sxerv THURSDAY afternoon during July
! and August
You're not . Roosevelt man, take
il
Nope. 7 used to be. but he's .
changed man"
In what respectT
~,-,nkIue heavily. Can't you go
r,eh, nov the man haint rishfT
The Colonel was late in getting into
| Rur,;naton u was nearly 10 o'clock
before he mounted the platform TO
sneak. He had . large and appreciate
azdienee.
! In. NEXT morning ss the ccloners
b,,e, a prominent verrnonter said 20
che Globe representative:
The coloners hitting 90 hard'
'sr'e ner
~yse.s has big audiences and lots OF
. .nsbus,asra everywhere he has gone.
reoi.ra eve Globe man.
%. I aont mean tnss-" SAID the Bur-
unsscn man. Z mean that he 10 drink.
! Ing hard"
sr,r. said the Globe maa.
wen gusss 30 hsvsa't Ssea q