The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-27
FIRST WITNESS IN CASE
IS THEODORE HIMSELF
from the colonel's and OF the bar
Newett's witnesses were not in at
tendance today.

5.s * s.
Newspaper men, witnesses for
Roosevelt, by agreement OF counsel,
We're called back. 30 they could attend
to their work.
i was born In New York, October
~, 1852 he stated.
Then he told Of his election to the
New York legislature in 1881, his un-
successful campaign for mayor of
New York In 1886, his term as assist
ant secretary Of the navy, his resigna-
tion to be lieutenant coionel OF the
rough riders in 1898.
I was In the fighting around San
tiago, where my regiment lost over
one-thsrd Of the officers and over one
nth OF the men Of the regiment, kill
ed and wounded he observed. Il wac
promoted to colonel OF the regiment
and made acting brigadier general,
returning to Montauk Point. The army
was there disbanded in September.
was at once nominated governor of
New York and was elected
James H. Pound, attorney for
Roosevelt, opened his remarks to the
jury with an outline OF the public life
of the plaintiff.
The defense objected to what they
termed an "oration,
Clashes between the opposing at
torneys increased rapidly. At the
conclusion of Pounds address, Roose-
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Then came the meat Of his evidence.
After telling of his terms as presi-
dent and his African lion hunt, the
colonel said he remembered October
10, 1912, very well. This was the
day on which Editor Newett printed
his alleged libel. charging that the
colonel gets drunk, and that not in
frequently, and all his intimates
know IT,
Roosevelt identified the copy of
Iron Ore, Newett's paper, which con
tanned the charge.
4 think / saw that first in Mercy
hospital he said. ''after was shot.
'It may have been In Milwaukee the
Iday was shot
Il have never drunk a cocktail or
a highball in my life With exceptions
noted, / never drank whiskey or
brandy except under the advice of a
physician. / don't care for the taste
tof either. ! don't smoke and l don't
drink beer, because dislike smoking
10 ocfn oP
er have drunk whiskey or brandy ex-
Icept when the doctor prescribed it,
i or possibly on some occasion after
great exposure when was chilled
through But it has been certainly
fifteen or twenty years since I've
drunk 1T because of being chilled
through | have never drunk beer
nor do drink red wine. The only
wines / have drunk have been either
white wines, MADEIRA, Champagne or
very occasionally glass of sherry. At
home | often at dinner will drink a
+ wine glass or two of Madeira. In
isummer, instead of the MADEIRA, will
often drink tall glass of white wine
and Poland water, or polly water. At
public dinners sometimes drink a
glass OF champagne or perhaps two.
| | think that on the average this means
that I will drink champagne about
once a month.
"The only exceptions to what ]
have stated about drinking whiskey
and brandy are as follows.
Mint juleps ] very rarely drink. In
the white house we had mint bed
and should think that on the aver
age | may have drunk half dozen
mint juleps year. Since ] left the
white house four years ago, to the
best of my memory, have drunk
mint juleps twice, one occasion at
1.-THE Country Club at st. Louis, where
| | drank part of glass OF mint julep
and on another occasion az ! big lunch
given me at Little Rock, Arkansas,
where they passed around the table
a loving cup with the mir iulep in 1t
and drank when the cup was passed
to me. The only other occasions on
which | have drunk whiskey have
been when it has been prescribed by
| the doctor During the last fourteen
years / do not believe have drunk
whiskey straight or with water more
| than half dozen times. On the
! African trip, the expedition took
along a case of champagne, case OF
whiskey and one bottle of brandy The
bottle of brandy was taken for me
because do not drink whiskey.
| Some of the other members OF the
party drank whiskey. The champagne
was used occasionally for three mem
bers of the party who were down with
| fever and dysentery, and for two or
three travellers hunters and mission
aries we met who were sick. never
touched either the whiskey or the
champagne. Out of the brandy bot.
tile / drank exactly seven ounces, this
being given me by DR., Mearns on two
occasions when | had fever. The last
time ! told him disliked IT so did
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