Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06
ROOSEVELT DENIES
| EDITORS CHARGES
col ONEL SAYS He ISN'T IOtA-
AssTAINER BUT WAS NeVth
INTOXICATED.
coRROBoRATIvE TESTIMONY
Witness for Ex-President Tell OF tbs
Habits-Doctor Speaks OF His
Wonderful Physical Hea'th
As Evidence.

Marquette, MICH, May 90
Glore Roosevelt, picture OF ruooy
yigor and perfect health, turned
square head and square jaw IN INC
direction of twelve men, farmers
transfers, miners and woodsmen' IN
court and gave his character for sobrl-
ETY. as mot a total abstainer,' but
never intoxicated in his life.
His testimony and that OF others
who followed corroborated such a de-
cription of abstemiousness.
Matter of Fact.
If the sturdy looking man VINO spent
seven years of his life in performing
the duties of president of the United
States saw anything peculiar in his
position of explaining to the twelve
simple toilers of the woods and the
mines that he was not really drunk
ard as charged in an alleged libellous
editorial by the defendant, George A.
Newett. his countcnance did not be-
tray it, nor did his manner.
When Mr.. Pound, his counsel, after
brief outline of the plaintiffs case
to the jury, called the colonel to the
witness stand, tie latter, who had
been inconspicuous among number
of prospective witnesses and visitors,
stepped briskly forward.
Substance of Testimony.
In substance Colonel Roosevelt de.
Tended himself as a man of complete
sobriety, although not total abstain,
er. The leading points in his testi-
mony may be quoted as follows:
Il am not a total abstainer.
ri have never drunk highball or
a cocktail in my life.
Il do not smoke and I do not drink
beer and l don't drink red wine.
Il have never drunk whisky or
brandy except when the doctor pre-
scribed it or possibly on some occa-
sion, after great exposure, when l
was chilled through.
THE only wines have drunk have
been white wines, Madeira, cham
payne or, very occasionally. a glass
of sherry.
''At home, at dinner, often drink a
glass or two OF white wine and Poland
water.
AT public dinners sometimes drink
glass of champagne or, perhaps
two. On an average may drink one
glass of champagne a month.
There was fine mint bed at the
White House. and I may have drunk
half a dozen mint juleps there in a
year. Since leaving the White House
think have tasted mint juleps twice
part of glass at St. Louis and a
sip from a loving cup at Little Rock,
Ark"
The Succeeding Testimony.
Much of the succeeding testimony
was introduced to indicate that the
Ell perfection, his violence of exercise
and his immense capacity for work
could not exist in the person of a
drunkard as the alleged libel editorial
in the Iron Ore charged.
Important witnesses of this phase
of the examination were DR.. Alex
Lambert, Roosevelt's family physician
ard intimate friend for 30 years, and
DR.. T. N. Rixey. surgeon-general, U.
S. NJ, retired. whose official duties
during the Mckinley and Roosevelt
terms of office included little else than
to guard the presidents physical we'll
being.
Other witnesses were Jacob Riis and
Gibson Gardner, the former a socialo-
gist and writer, and the latter a news
paper man whose duty for many years
compelled him to take close note of
everything pertaining to Colonel
Roosevelt.
DR.. Lambert, aside from his init
mate social and professional relations
with the plaintiff. testified that he
had made a special study of the heart
and lungs. and of the effect of al
cohol, tobacco, opiates and drugs on
the human system.
Testimony Of Doctor.
"He is extremely temperate" tes-
tilted the doctor. His heart and
liver which if alcoholic would be af-
fected, he said. were prodigiousiy
healthy and competent. He never was
called upon to treat his friend pro.
fessionally until he was called to
Merry hospital, Chicago, after Colonel
Roosevelt's life had been attempted
at Milwaukee. He described the
course of the bullet through the ribs.
the CHASTITY wound it caused, and the
big bruise which covered a consid.
cradle part Of the patients side.
Pelkey Held Yet.