Show SENATOR STEWART ART ON DENT JOHNSON In the current number of or the tho Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day ay Evening Post is a paper b by Former Senator Stewart of Nevada Nc He tells the experiences of a n senator of the sixties It is his personal reminiscences reminiscences reminiscences rem rem- of Washington ton at nt the close of of the war And a more moro impressive paper than this tills has not been given to the tho light n By Senator Stewarts Stewart's account and account and he will not be lightly lI charged with prevarication prevarication Johnson Johnson was wao drunk most of the time between election and inauguration and exceedingly exceedingly exceedingly ex ex- ex- ex drunk in the following April ArII when Lincol Lincoln's ns n's assassination made him President V In a wa way Senator Stewart tells teUs a n anew anew new sto story story- Most of the truth was known dimly But here Is the direct S 1 statement of a a. fact which one has hasa a right to kno know about since it is la a apart apart apart part of the history ot of the nation And it is an ugly stor story ItIs a 3 horrible thing to reflect that a a. President took tool his oath of or office while beastly drunk It is humiliating to know that even en the license and habit of war time timo could not palliate the shocking offenses of of- of or that mistaken selection for I high honor The picture of Washington ashington at the time tune of the killing of Lincoln the local bits of geography are intensely Interesting Interesting inter Inter- esting The paper is not faultless in inthe inthe inthe the telling but it is la vital Ital and direct and quite convincing American citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens everywhere should get thai copy and read Senator Stewarts Stewart's article |