The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27
TEDDY DENIES IT.
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Throat Roster at Night.


ION campaign trips, drink moth
ing until, as said above, 1 go to bed,
when 1 take a goblet, or perhaps two
gob1ets, of milk with teaspoonful OF
brandy to the goblet, finding 1t rests
my throat and makes me sleep Wen.
On almost every campaign trip there
would be some occasion on Wh1ch
stop at a friends house, when VIII
drink a glass of wine; or there viii pc
some public dinner when 1 will drink
either a glass of white wine or glass
of champagne.
For example, in the Ohio cam
paign last year, during the nine days
1 touched nothing whatever on seven
mentioned before going to bed. not
drinking a drop of any kind until
was undressed and went to bed. The
other two days were the occasions
sion when 1 spoke at Cleveland.
''At Toledo, after the speech, MT
Garfield, Mr.. Post and I went to the
house of Mr.. and Mrs. Sheppey, where
we met Mayor and Mrs. Brad Whit
lock, and we went into the dining
room to take a little supper.
There was some champagne and l
first took a glass of champagne, ana
then found that there was pitcher
of milk and doughnuts and took the
milk and doughnuts instead.
ION the afternoon of the day went
to Cleveland, stopped at Ravenna, at
a pot of tea and at dinner I believe,
but am not certain, that I took glass
of champagne.
Poland Water on Train.
after 1 returned to the car in the
evening, having made various evening
speeches, 1 am often thirsty and took
a bottle of Appolinaris water or Po-
land water with a glass of cracked ice,
but drink no liquor of any kind, and
never have drunk any liquor of any
kind in the car excepting as above de-
scribed.
at Duluth last year. In the morning
1 reached Superior and spoke there.
We went over to Duluth and took
lunch, there being no liquor at lunch.
81 then dictated two speeches I in
tended to make at Oshkosh and Chi
cago and went for an automobile ride,
and afterwards took dinner. No liquor
was served at dinner, and 1 did not
drink drop of wine or liquor of any
kind during the day. 1 stopped and
spoke a few sentences to dinner of
doctors, at their earnest and repeated
request.
"I made two speeches in the eve
ming. / went back to the car and got
a bottle of Appolinaris water and a
glass with ice in it, but without any
liquor of any kind, and drank the APP
polinaris water. When l went TO bed
1 took two spoonfuls of brandy in milk
and that was the only drop of liquor
1 touched that day. 1 was in Duluth
only that day.
All Day at White House.
while at the White House, I never
touched brandy or whisky except the
mint juleps above mentioned, and pos
sibly on two OF three occasions when
DIR. Rixey prescribed drink of whisky
once, if I remember Alright for an
acute attack of indigestion, and once
when he and 1 made a hundred mile
run and came in through a snow
storm and he gave me some whisky
and I disliked it so that after taking
a sip, 1 would not take any more and
got a cup of tea instead.
"Outside of these prescriptions of
DIR. Rixey we usually had at lunch
some white wine if there were guests. |
Unless there were guests drank moth |
ing at lunch and often 1 drank Moth |
ing if there were guests If we dined
alone 1 drank nothing. If we had
guests we usually had white wine, but
sometimes Madeira and at formal din
nerS we had champagne, of which 1
would drink a glass or two.
Champagne at Formal Dinners.
while at Washington almost all the
were at the White |
House, 1 believe, but each member of
he cabinet gave a dinner and 1 be- |
ieve there was anyways champagne at
hose dinners and 1 drank a glass or
wo precisely as at the White House.
also on perhaps a half dozen occa
;ions went out for instance, to the
club dinner or to the recep-
ion of Speaker Cannon's SEVENTEEN
birthday, or to a dinner of the New
York delegation in congress. On these