Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-27
Roosevelt Denies That He
EUer Became intoxicated
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bottle 1 drank exactly seven ounces,
this being given me by DR.. Mearns
on two occasions when / had fever.
The last time told him l disliked 1t
so that I did not think 1t did me any
good, and unless he objected would
take tea. Accordingly took tea and
turned the bottle and the rest of the
brandy over to Mr.. ]. r. Cunning
hame, who was managing the expe-
dition.
Eight months later. when we
reached Khartoum, he asked me what
he should do with 1t. saying that from
curiosity he had measured 1t, and that
1 had drunk just seven ounces In
eleven months.
LAS for brandy, / never drink it
any more than I do whiskey when |
am alone or at home, or on a hunting
trip, or in a friends house But on
very hard campaign trips. on the ad-
vice of Surgeon General Rixey and
recently of DR.. Holbrook Curtis, who
attends 20 my throat in connection
with these campaign trips, have fire.
quently, Just before going to bed at
night, drunk either one or two goblets
of milk, with a teaspoon of brandy
to the goblet If there is more than
the teaspoonful I dislike the taste and
don't drink 1t. I frequently drink
milk at some meal during the day,
usually at lunch.
THE brandy which was used in
Africa was never in my own posses
Y l. gt4ar erf4
to me by the doctor I do not even
carry flask OF brandy or whiskey
with me. l used to carry 1t on my
hunting trips, but found that I used
it so rarely that it was a nuisance
and might get broken, and it has
been some twenty years since car
ried one.
Not I'm n saloon In Twenty Years.
"on my ranch we never had whis-
key. never made a practise of
drinking at a bar, and don't believe
that l have ever drunk at a bar for
twenty-odd years. 1 do not believe
have been inside saloon during
that time. I do not drink between
meals or except as above described.
ION campaign trips / drink nothing
until, as said above, I go to bed,
when l take a goblet, or perhaps two
goblets, of milk, with a teaspoonful
of brandy to the goblet. finding 1t
rests my throat and makes me sleep
well. On almost every campaign trip
there will be some occasion when I
stop at a friends house when l will
drink a glass of wine, or there will |
be some public dinner when I will |
drink either glass of white wine or |
a glass of champagne.
For example, In the Ohio campaign |
last year, during the nine days |
touched nothing whatever on seven |
Of the days, excepting at night, as
above mentioned, before going to bed |
not drinking a drop of any kind until |
was undressed. The other two days |
were the occasions when l spoke at |
Toledo and the occasion when I spoke 7
at Cleveland.
Rather Than Champagne. |
AT Toledo, after the speech, Mr.. |
Garfield, Mr.. Post and I went to the !
house of Mr.. and Mrs. Sheppey, where |
we met Mayor and Mrs. Brand Whit
lock and we went into the dining |
room to take a little supper. There |
was some champagne, and 1 first took |
a glass of champagne, and I then |
found that there was a pitcher of |
milk and doughnuts, and took the
milk and doughnuts instead On the
afternoon of the day went to Cleve-
land I stopped at Ravenna, at the
house of Mr.. Hanna.
There | had pot of tea, and at
dinner / believe, but am not certain, !
that took glass of champagne.
After ] returned to the car In the
evening, having made number of
evening speeches, am often thirsty |
and take a bottle Of Apollinaris
water, or Poland water, with a glass
of cracked ice, but I drink no liquor
of any kind and never have drunk |
any liquor of any kind in the car ex-
cepting as above described. For in
stance. take the day I spoke at Du-
luth last year. In the morning I
reached Superior and spoke there. |
We went over to Duluth and took |
lunch, there being no liquor at lunch. |
I then dictated the two speeches
intended to make at Oshkosh and
Chicago, then went for an automo-
bile ride, and afterward took dinner.
Dry Day at This Place.
mo liquor was served at dinner
and | did not drink a drop of wine |
or liquor of any kind during the day. |
| stopped and spoke few sentences
at dinner of doctors. at their earn |
est and repeated request. l then
made two speeches in the evening. l
went back to the ear, got bottle of
water and a glass with
ice in it, but without any liquor of
any kind, and drank the Apollinaris |
water When went to bed | took
two spoonsful of brandy In milk, and
that was the only drop of liquor l
touched that day. l was In Duluth
only that day.
"While at the White House I never
touched brandy or whiskey or ex-
,epting the mint juleps above men
toned and possibly on two or three
occasions when DR.. Rixey prescribed