Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

lets OF milk with teaspOT Aul OF
brandy to a goblet"
Il frequently drink milk at some
meal during the day, usually lunch
con. The brandy which was used in
Africa was never in my possession.
do not even carry flask of whisky
or brandy with me. ! used to carry
1t on hunting trips. but found l used
it so rarely that it was a nuisance
and would get broken. 1t has been
some twenty years since l carried one.
Il never made a practice of drink
ing at a bar. l don't believe l have
drunk at a bar in twenty years. do
not believe l have been inside a sa-
Icon in that time. do not drink be-
tween meals or except as above
described.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES S,-:s7 ,-:s7
ION campaign trips l drink nothing
I~tnti., as said above, / go to bed,
when / take a goblet or two of milk,
with a teaspoonful Of brandy to
goblet. finding il rests my throat and
makes me sleep we'll On almost
every campaign trip stop at some
! friends house, when drink glass OF
I wine, or there may be some public
/ dinner when ! drink glass of white
| wine or champagne. For example. in
the Ohio campaign last year during
the nine days l touched nothing
/ whatever on seven days. excepting at
night. as above mentioned before 60
/ ing 70 bed. not drinking a drop of any
kind until undressed and going to bed
The other two days l spoke at
! Toledo and Cleveland. At Toledo,
after my speech, Mr.. Carried. Mr..
Post and | went to the house of Mr.
and Mrs. Sheppy, met Mayor and Mrs.
Brand Whitlock and went to the din
ing room for supper. There was
champaign first took champaign,
then found there was a pitcher Of milk
and doughnuts. / took the milk and
doughnuts instead.
RIXEY ORDERS WHISKY.
while at the White house l never
touched brandy or whisky, excepting
the mint juleps above mentioned.
There was one or two occasions when
DR.. Rlxey prescribed a drink of wEis-
ky-once. If remember Alright, for an
acute attack of Indigestion, and once
when he and had made a 1O0-miIe
ride together and came in through a
snowstorm he gave me some whisky.
| disliked It so after taking a sip, |
would take no more, and got a cup of
tea instead.
Outside these prescriptions we
usually had at lunch some white
wines, if there were guests. Unless
there were guests l drank nothing at
lunch. and often nothing II there
we're guests. II we dined alone drank
nothing. II We had guests we usually
had white wine, and at formal dinners
We had champagne, OF which drank a
glass or TWO"
When cabinet members gave din
ners Roosevelt said he drank a glass
or two of champagne.
TAKES A BEER IN MILWAUKEE,
After describing other occasions
where he took light wine or a glass OF
champagne. Roosevelt continued. For
the last Is years can give you in de
tail just about what have drunk, and
have given it substantially above,
and neither during those Is years or
since l became of age have ever un.
der any circumstances been even in
the smallest degree under the infu,
ence Of liquor. l do no. remember
within the last dozen years oi
drinking even a part or a glass Of
beer, except one. That was at the
Deutscher club in Milwaukee"
, BRIEF CROss-EXAMINATI
The crossexamination of Roosevelt
occupied 20 minutes II was conduct
ed by Horace Andrews of the defense
Answering questions, the colonel said
he never lived in Michigan and had
never been in the state in the last II
years except on flying trips. Asked 4
he knew George Shiras, Roosevelt re