The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-28
for any such purpose at any period OF my

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for any such purpose at any period OF my
work in the white house.
ION the 18th and 18th of February last
| left the office on Monday | walked up
| across TO the Marquis hotel, where had
tea with Mrs. Roosevelt. On Tuesday I
left at o'clock and took the $50 train
from the Pennsylvania depot for Oyster
Bay. On neither day did touch n drop
OF anything at any time. When in town
I usually, not always, lunch with some
members OF the Outlook staff, and during
the three years during which 7 have on
an average of once or twice lunched with
any one. ] don't recall an instance where
ever drank anything except either milk,
tea or coffee. On these two days I never
went up Fifth avenue nor above Thirty
second street.
~ have not been in tho Waldorf unless
at public dinner for certainly three
years. and ] was not In the Waldorf on
either of those two days. On neither OF
| those two days did ] go into or come out
of any building In Fortysecond street.
and on neither Of those two days did i
% above Thirty-first or Thirty
street on Filth avenue. Between and S
o'clock the avenue is densey crowded
For the last fifteen years can give
you In detail Just about what have
drank and I have given II substa ntiaIly
above, and neither during those fifteen
years nor since I have been of age have
i
even the smallest degree under the influ-
ence OF LIQUOR.
II don't remember within the last dozen
years drinking even part Of glass OF
beer except once. That was at the Deut-
schcr club. Whenever go to Milwauk ee
I try TO go TO the Deutscher club for a
call,
"At their request. think In 1909, I
drank a mouthful of beer, They offered
me beer and asked II they could not get
me some white wine saying / never
drank beer. They asked me II 7 would
they said 1t was the beer that made NIL
waukee famous. So I took . mouthful
and then took white wine, They then all
sang songs. but there was only one song
In which 7 could Join.
While / was governor and always my
habits In using wine and champagne have
been practically as stated
Colonel Roosevelt was on the stand an
hour and forty minutes. or this time
twenty-five minutes were taken up with
cross examination.
Henry Rauthier, city assessor of Isb-
peming, was the next witness He testI-
fled concerning the publication of the al,
legged libel
Attorneys for Mr. Newett said they
would concede the publication of the ar
tlcle, but Colonel Roosevelt's attorneys
stated they would insist upon proving it
Jacob A. Rlis. the writer, called as the
rlrst important witness for Colonel Roose-
welt. testified that he was 81 years old
and was born in Denmark
Kills said he became acquainted With
Colonel Roosevelt because OF their mu-
classes of New York.
,.-l made him my brother said RHs
FOR days and nights We walked the
streets together. watching whether The
police were on duty and looking into The
condition OF those desperate tenement
houses"
The same degree of friendship contin-
ued until after Colonel Roosevelt became
president
During the fifteen years you have
known Mr., Roosevelt did you ever see
him Ton ndfF frd the n9 n!ne1es TsDsa of laSEr'" p
THE sta tatement that he has been free
user Of liquor is a lie. have seen this
man under the greatest stress. and never
us he blasphemous man?"
mo, he Is gentleman"
Argument followed between counsel as
to whether It was. competent FOR wit
nesees to testify whether Colonel Roose-
welt was a gentleman
The court sustained an objection that
When e4o.s sna Plaintiff exnmneS TaE
was asked whether his work as writer
took him out OF politics
';It has put me right in the thick OF It.
] have been fighting Tammany in New
York for thirty years"
Did you ever see Mr.. Roosevelt drink
mint juleps7"
does I have seen him drink cham
payne"
When Riis was excused court ad-
journed until IN.
Had Colonel Roosevelt been an excess
siye user OF alcoholic liquor he never
would have survived tho shock he sus-
tained when he was shot In Milwaukee
last year. according to Or. Alexander
Lambert, his intimate friend and family
physician. who testified this afternoon,
DIR. Lambert said he had known Colonel
Roosevelt since 1891 and had been on
hunting trips with him In North Dakota
Colorado Wyoming and Louisiana.
From your close personal experience
with Mr.. Roosevelt on hunting trips and
In official life at Washington, would you
say he was a man who drank to excess
or not?" DR.. Lambert was asked,
"He was extremely temperate" replie ed
the witness with empha sis.
DR., Lambert then told how he had been
on hunting trips with Colonel Roosevelt
in 1893, 1905 and 1907. During those
trips, he said. he never had observed
Colonel Roosevelt drink any whisky ex-
cept once. and that was when the colonel
wes suff fferlng from r slight fever he had
contracted In the Cuban campaign.
During your twenty-five years ac-
ouaintance with him did you ever know
OF his being under the influence of liquor
OF any kind?"
II never did
Ibid you ever observe the smell Of al
cohol on his breath?"
Never"
When cross-examiasd, DR.. Lambert