The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-06-05
ROOSEVELT CASE
IS COMPROMISED
EDITOR NEWETT WITHDRAWS
CHARGE OF PAPER AND THE I
COLONEL is INDICATED.
TESTIMONY PROVES SoBRIETY
Nominal Damages of Six Cents Award
of Court to Roosevelt-Defense
Unable to Find Witnesses
Who Saw Teddy Drunk.

Marquette, Mich, June 3.-Theodore
Roosevelt has won his vindication. He
has proved he is not a Grunkard.
More than that, he has proved as
nearly as a man may do by his init
mates of a lifetime that he has never
even been slightly under the influence
of liquor and that he is as abstemious
as a man may be and still drink alco-
holic liquid. His libel suit against
George A. Newett of Ishpeming ended
abruptly.
Charge Is Taken Back.
Newett surrendered and withdrew
the charge of his paper that Roose-
welt gets drunk and that not infre-
quently."
In a statement read in open court,
he admitted he had combed the coun-
try but had found not n single wit
ness who could testify he had seen
Colonel Roosevelt take liquor to ex-
cess. To all intents and purposes he
threw himself upon Roosevelt's mercy.
And then Roosevelt, unwilling to as
sess upon Newett the heavy damages
4S Souiu LoNO NiulbiOA, li SOuAS
and declared he had achieved his OBJ
ject, disproved the tale that did him
such injury in the last campaign and
asked the court to direct a verdict in
his favor for nominal damages only
which, in Michigan, mean 6 cents.
The 6 cents were paid and the col
onel will settle his own costs of close
to $4,000.
Refuses to DivuIge Intent.
Somebody asked the colonel later
what he would do with the 6 cents. He
threw back his head and laughed a
hearty guffaw, but refused to reveal
his intent with respect to the nickel
and the penny he had accepted.
AS a sort of climax to his case, The
odore Roosevelt brought into court
Saturday the four men who have been
closer to him than anyone that lives,
aside from his wife and children, to
testify that he had never taken liquor
to excess
CoIoneI's Closing Witnesses.
w. Emlin Roosevelt, his cousin and
lifelong chum; Frank Tyree and
James Sloan. the secret service men,
who spent all their waking hours with
him while he was president and slept
at his door at night: William Loeb,
Jr., the %colonels private secretary
while he vas governor and president,
all mounted the stand and swore the
colonel's use OF strong drink comes
close to total abstinence.
Tyree, who guarded his door during
the ten holly exciting days of the Chi
cage national convention last year,
swore that in that time no drink but
milk entered the %colonel's rooms.
w. p. Shaufele of Cleveland, the
railroad traffic manager who routed
and travelled with the colonels cam
paign train in 1912, also testified that
Roosevelt tasted no more than a sim
gle glass of mildly alcoholic drink ON
any one occasion.
Dispositions by George III. Roose-
Welt, cousin nee removed to the plain
tiff; DIR. Albert Shaw, editor of the Re
view of Reviews; George B.. Cortelyou,
president of the Consolidated Gas cor
poration of New York and former sec
rotary to President Roosevelt. and
Alexander Graham, newspaper CORES
pendent, were read.
All testified to the colonels strict
sobriety.
Other dispositions from Admiral
George Dewey, DR.. Edgar A. Mearns
and william B. Dulaney, the colonel's
barber while he was president, were
read at the afternoon session.