Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-27

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of the nine days excepting at night az
above mentioned before going to bed,
not drinking drop Of any kind until
1 was undressed and went to bed.
"At Toledo after the speech, Mr. Gar
field. Mr.. Post and I went to the house
Of Mr. and Mrs. Sheppey, where we
met Mayor and Mrs. Brand Whitlock
| and we went into the dining room to
take little supper. There was some
| champagne and first took a glass Of
champagne; I then found there was a
| pitcher OF milk and doughnuts, and !
| took the milk and doughnuts instead.
| On the afternoon Of the day I went to
Cleveland I stopped at Ravenna at the
| house of Mr.. Hanna. There l had o
| pot of tea and at dinner. believe. but
am not certain. that I took glass
| of champagne.
Did Not Drink in Michigan.
"After I returned to the car in the
evening after making speeches, I am
| often thirsty and take a bottle of APP
polinaris water. but drink no liquor
I liquor of any kind in the car excepting
as above described. For instance, take
the day I spoke at Duluth last year. In
i
spoke there. We went over to Duluth
and took lunch. there being no liquor
at lunch. I then dictated the two
| speeches I intended to make at Oshkosh
and Chicago. then went for an automo-
bile ride, and afterward took dinner.
, No liquor was served at dinner and I
did not drink a drop Of wine or liquor
| Of any kind during the day.
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| dinner Of doctors at their earnest re-
| quest. I then made two speeches in
the evening. I went back to the car
/ and drank bottle of Appolinaris water
in a glass with ice in it but without
| any liquor Of any kind. When went
to bed I took two spoonf,,ls of brandy
| and milk and that was all the liquor
I touched that day.
His White House Experiences.
while at the White House I never
touched whisky or brandy except the
mint iuleps mentioned and possibly on
two or three occasions when Rixey
prescribed drink of whisky-once it
remember Alright for an acute at
tack of indigestion, and once when he
and I had made 100 mile ride to-
gether and came In thru q snow storm.
disliked it so I would only take sip
and got a cup Of tea instead. Outside
these prescriptions Of DR.. Rixey we
usually had some white wine at lunch
if we had guests. If we dined alone I
drank nothing. If we had guests we us
ually had white wine, but sometimes
Madeira and at formal dinners we had
champagne, Of which would drink
a glass or two.
"While at Washington almost all the
entertainments were at the White
House ITSELF but each member of tne
there was always champagne at those
dinners and drank glass or two. I
also on perhaps half dozen occa-
sions went out, for instance at the
Gridiron Club dinner. or the reception
on Speaker 'Cannon's seventieth birth
day. or to a dinner Of the New York
delegation in congress. On these oc-
casions I drank precisely as at the
White House. At the Cannon reception
went in company OF Mr.. Loeb and
Mr.. James Sloane, a secret service
man. The occasion was not In the aft
ernoon. it was in the evening. We left
the White House shortly after 9 and
returned a little after II. Loeb came
back with me.
Denial Of Specific Charges.
"On such occasions Mr.. Loeb fre-
quently stayed and we did some work
in the study after our return to the
White House. On all public occasions
Mr.. Loeb went with me and also two
secret service men. On the Cannon
occasion remember that one Of these
men was Mr.. Sloane. 1t was the duty
Of the secret service men to see me
safely back to the White House, but
on this occasion as Sloane was from
Cannon's district and had some friends
there he did not come back with me.
but said goodbye at the carriage and
returned to the gathering. Mr.. Loeb.
however, returned to theeWhite House.
I was with Mr.. Newberry, Mr.. Cortel-
you and others while there. Neither
on this occasion nor at any other oc-
casion did I take a glass Of whisky or
brandy or any liquor in any form. On
this occasion I took a sandwich and
glass of champagne which I drank
standing up proposing the health OF
the speaker.
NO man who knew me ever asked
me to take any whisky because they
knew that under no circumstances did
I take it, and no man on this occasion
ever proposed to me to take whisky.
Neither while in the White House nor.
at any other time have ever drunk or
taken any kind Of liquor between
meals except as above described, and
in the White House I not only did not
drink whisky or brandy. but l did moi
know where any whisky or brandy
was.
White House Routine.
Unless shaved myself. was always
shaved by Delaney in the room be-
tween my room and Mr.. Loeb's im-
mediately before luncheon. and never
on any occasion during the time that
was in the White House did touch
a drop Of anything during the day
prior to being shaved. The routine at
the White House was as follows:
I'VE had breakfast at or $3.50, Mrs.
Roosevelt, the children and myself.
After breakfast II the weather was
good Mrs. Roosevelt and I walked
around the grounds for half an hour. 1
then came to the White House office
and as soon as I reached there Mr..
Loeb came in with the mail After
half an hour Of this the senator's and
congressman would begin to arrive. II
it was an ordinary day they would
continue to come until IL or 1 but IL 1t
was a cabinet day they would stop at
II o'clock"