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Show "I NEVER DRANK A COCKTAIL OR HIGHBALL IN MY LIFE' -ROOSEVELT I FORMER PRESIDENT I TESTIFIES IN SUIT BROUGHT FOR LIBEL I Briefly Sketches Outline of His Life and Habits; jay Is Not Total Abstainer, but Uses Very Abstemiously Abstemi-ously Such Intoxicants as He Uses at All; Does Not Drink Beer Because He Does Not Like It, and Partakes of Whisky Only Whan Prescribed by a physician; Uses Light Wines Occasionally Occasion-ally at Meals. MARQUETTE, Mich., May 27. In the elaborate, but small courtroom of this frontier city, Theodore Booaevelt appeared in what is probably an unique occasion in history, when in effect he, although a former president of the United States, defended him. self under oath ag-aiust an allegation of drunkenness. His direct testimony lasted about an hour and cross examination immediately began. In substance. Colonel Roosevelt defended himself as a man of complete sobriety, although not a total abstainer. The leading ; "lints in his testimony may be quoted as follows: "I am not a total abstainer." "1 have never drunk a highball or a cocktail in my life." "1 don't smoke and I don't drink beer and I don't drink red wine. ' ' "I have never drunk whisky or brandy except when the doctor prescribed it, or possibly on some occasion after great exposure when I was chilled through." "The only wines I have drunk have been white wines, Madeira, i hanipajrne. or very occasionally a glass of sherry." "At home at dinner I often drink a glass or two of white wine and Poland water." "At public dinners 1 sometimes drink a glass of champagne, or prehaps two. On an average I maydrink one glass of cham-kp cham-kp pagne a month." r "There was a fine mint bed at the white house and I may have drunk half a dozen mint-juleps there in ayear." caaeT (Mr Andrews objected to question ques-tion es leading;.) The court It eeeme to me the auee-tion auee-tion Is leading This concluded the examination, life Outlined by Himself. His teetlmonr in substance, as elicited by bis attorney", waa as follows 1 was born In New York. October JH. I860 I craduated from Harvard In law. In the fall of US1 I was elected to the New York legislature, where L eerved three veers. In ISM I ran for mayor of New York and was beaten. In 188 I wae appointed civil service commissioner and served six years In its I wae appointed ap-pointed preeident or the police board of New York and served two years. In UM I wae appointed assistant secretary of the navy and eerved one year. Oeee Out With Bough Riders "la May, list, I resigned to take tbe lieutenant colonelcy ef the flret United States volunteer cavalry, commonly called the, rough riders, and served during the Spanish war. I was In tbe fighting around Santiago, where my regiment lost over one-third of the officers end over one-fifth of the men of the regiment, killed and wounded. I wae promoted to be colonel of the regiment and made acting act-ing brigadier general, returning to Mon-tauk Mon-tauk Point. The army wae there disbanded dis-banded in September. I was at once nominated nomi-nated for governor of New York and wae elected. I eerved as governor unUl the end of my term, but before It ended. In the spring of 100, I was nominated for vice preeident on the tlcnet with Preeident Preei-dent McKlnley and was elected. Becomes President. "I served as vloe preeident from March 4. 101. entll September 14, 101. when President McKlnley died from tbe effects of the bullet wound of tbe assassin. Ceolgoes. I eerved as president for the unexpired term of three years and a half end was nominated and elected as president presi-dent in the fall of 104. "A little over a fortnight after leaving the presidency on March 4, ISO. I went to Africa as head of the Smithsonian expedition. I came out at Khartum on March 16 1910. and after a short trip through Europe I returned to the United States toward the end of June, 110. Since then I have lived contlnuouely at Oyster Bay and have been connected with the Outlook. "From ISIS to 1 I spent considerable time on my cattle ranch on the I.lttle Missouri In the present state of North Dakota. Never Drank Cocktail or Highball. whleky in fifteen years Q. You never drank any whisky? A. I eald that In the fifteen years It would probably not be more than a dosen times f have drunk whisky. Q. Now, the wine you drink Is light nine? A.-Yee, sir. Wanted Light Wines Defined. 9- What, do you mean by light wine? A. I mean white wines, and sometimes it may be a little Madeira. J Any other kind of wine? A. 1 may have drunk a little red wine and occasionally e little cherry i,iQiYou do!'t k'.,p aa wine of eny kind In your house? A. Red wine? Q. Do you keep wine V any kind In your house? w A. Yea ttS-Sl"1 Zu k.Mp hrandy and wine In the white house? Mr. Pound I object to that. BUwrTou BBL ?u n exception. Roosevelt I continued to keep wine, aa I found that mypredeccaeor had done. Q. Did you drink whleky or have you drunk whlekey on your trips? t.., ; ,excP' 9f. 1 n,v described, a teaspoonful In a glaaa of milk. " ' n tbe African trip tbe expedition took along a case of chamuaKne, e uf whisk v and h bottle of brandy. The brandy was for me because I do not drink whisky. In the eleven months of tbe trip tbe doctor administered juflt -even ounces of it to me for medical purposes. I ttvcr.4oucbed it except on hit advice. The champasne was used Jof three of our party who were ill ujf dysentery and for some sick strangers whom wo met. "On speaking tours, by direction of Surgeon General Rixev, I sometimes too a goblet or two of milk before retiring re-tiring and in each there was a mens ured teaspoonful of brandy. ' Since leaving tbe white bouse I tliink I have tasted mint julep twice part of a glass at St. T.ouis and a nip from a loving cup at Little Rock, Ark. Spectators Get a Laugh. When Colonel Roosevelt remarked that he might have drunk a half doaen uiiut jnleps in a year at the white house a 'titter went aruund the room when Attorney Pound, on direct examination, exam-ination, asked if he drank them all at one time or more than one. at a time. To the best of the plaintiff's recollection recollec-tion he bad never in nta life taken more than one on the same occasion. rofs examination of tbe colonel oj.1v occupied tweutv-flve minute. It waa conducted bv Horace Andrews of tbe fief eoso as follows: "You have never Jived in the utate oi Michiganf " ... A. I have never lived in tbe state or Michigan. Q. Outside of a fly.nir trip made through the state of Michigan, you hae never been in the state of Michigan during the last ten yearsJ A. I have never been in the state of Michigan within the last eight or teu years, except upon the flying trips i made through tbe state. Q So 1 would be correct in saving that vou have not been within the utate of Michigan within the last fifteen vearsf A. Yea, eir. i Acquaintance in Michigan Limited. Q. Your acquaintance is somewhat asnt t united in Mlehiganf A. It is limited. O. Do von know Mr. ..eorge shirasr A I know Mr.-Shiras. Q Do vou know that Mr. Shiras is a resident of Marquettef L I have heard that he does not live there regularly. Q. Mr. Shiraa really is not a resident of this cityf A. I don t know. i. It waa in Washjngtoa that you met Mr. Shiraaf A. Yea; when he waa in congress. q ' Since vou eame back from Africa, j on have been connected with the Outlook at New York? jr, i have. it - And connected some In politics? in politics some. j Now. your acquaintance while you were In the city of Washington and poa-tlbly poa-tlbly at Albanv was w.th political men7 A. Not many were political men. A great many were writers of hlatory and natural I at. Q You hae many Mends In coo-greee. coo-greee. have you not? Knew Nearly All Senators. A. I have anoan, almost every senator. sen-ator. Q Ton now also s great many eon-are eon-are semen and received a greet many congressmen con-gressmen at the white house, and they invited yon to their residences? A I received a great many congress-men. congress-men. but they rarely invited roe to their residences. Q Did I understand you to say you nave never taken anything In tbe wa of Intoxicating liquors? A You did not - understand roe. you understood me to say that I did so only In small quantities. q The onlv spirituous or intoxicating; Mquors you took In general would be a r tittle brandy with milk? A A teaspoonful In a tumbler full of milk. q You have never, for fifteen yantm taken more than a docen fUswes of w luajij not aria a doaen glass aa of "I have never drunk a cocktail or a highball In my life. With the exceptions hereafter noted, f never drank whleky or brandy except on the advice of a physician. phy-sician. I don't care for the taste of either. I don't smoke and I don't drink beer, because I dislike smoking and dislike dis-like the taste of beer. I never nave drunk whisky or brandy except when the doctor prescribed It, or possibly on some occasion oc-casion after great exposure when 1 waa chilled through. But It has been certainly cer-tainly fifteen or twenty years since I have drunk It because of being chilled through. I never have drunk beer, nor do I drink red wine. Sometimes Drinks Light Wines. "The only wines that I have drunk have been white wines, Madeira, champagne, cham-pagne, or. very occasionally, a glass of sherry. At home I often at dinner will drink a wineglass or two w1neglasaeaof Madeira. In summer, instead of the Madeira. I will often drink a tsll glass of white wine end Poland water or "poly" water. At public dinners I sometimes drink a glass of champagne, or perhaps two. I think that on the average this means that I will drink champagne about once a month. "Mint Juleps I very rarely drink. In the white house we had a mint bed. and I should think that on tbe average I may have drunk half a doaen mint Juleps a year. Since I left the white house four years ago, to the best of my memory. I nave drunk mint Juleps twice on one occasion st the Country club at St. Louis, where I drank part of a glass of mint Julep, and on another o-oaalon at a big luncheon given me at Little Rook, Ark., where they passed around the table a loving cup with the mint Julep In It and I drank when the cup was passed to me. Whisky Only When Preecribed 1 "The only other occasions on whloh I i have drunk whiskv have been when It has been prescribed by the doctor. During Dur-ing the last fourteen years I don't believe Ihave drunk whisky straight or with water more than half a dsen times On ths African trip the expedition took slong a case of rhampagne. a case of whisky and one bottle of brandy. The bottle of brandy was taken for me because I don't drink whisky. Some of the other members mem-bers of the party drank whisky. I neve' touched either the whisky or the champagne. cham-pagne. Out of the brandy bottle I drank exactly seven ounces, this being given me by Dr. Mearna on two occasions when I had fever. "Aa for brandy. I never drink It anv more than I do whisky when I am alons or at home, or on a hunting trip, or In (Continued on nag 10. i Never Carried Wriaky Flask. Q.Now. did you carry a flask of wl.laky or brand within, on your A. I did not IrStT00 knW Mr of A Yea. air. Q- What Is Us business? A. i don't know. w9Z"Hd enything to do with the bringing r.f this suit. If you know? A. That I cannot tell. Q Don't you know who began this important suit? mm .,-A .! waJ ,n th Mercy hospital at the time. Q Did you know that Mr. Wallace had charge of it. and did you know that ". nthare r iploy!ng counsel? A. That I could not say. Q- Had you met Mr. Pound up to that time? A. I may have met him. Q Have you any memory of It? A I don't remember whether I met htm or not. Q- Was Mr. Pound employed by you? That Is, employed by you personally? Lawyer Not Employed Personally. A. No. he was not employed by roe personally. Q Do you know who paid for the ex-pie ex-pie of taking testimony and all that? I1d you stsnd that expense? A. Tee. Q. And 1t has not been borne by any organisation In the state of Michigan? A. It has not. Q Have vou or any other person had charge of It? A. Mr. Pound has had charge of It. Mr Andrews I think that la all. Mr. Pound, on redirect examination, aaked: Q. As I undents nd it. y o u have no recollection of having seen Mr. Pound, In Michigan or Chicago, prior to the beginning be-ginning of this suit, which was some time In the month of October? A- I have no recollection. Q. As a matter of fact, you communicated communi-cated with Mr. Pound by letter as soon as -ou were sufficiently able to do eo? 'Objected to as leading, by Mr. Andrews. An-drews. A. I assume complete rsspunslbrity. No organisation has any responsibility excepting myself. I have It an. Q You have hired your attorness and stood all the expejaelnregard tn hjs Roosevelt Says He Likes Milk Better Than Champagne ' (Continued from page 1 1 a friend's house. But on very hard campaign cam-paign trips, on the advice of Sursen ;en,ral Kixey and recently of Dr. Hoi-brook Hoi-brook Curtis, who attends to my throat In conne'-tlon with these campaign trips. I have frequently Just before going to heel at nisht drunk either one or two goblets of milk, with a teaspounful of brandy to the goblet. Custom on Campaign Trips. "On almost every campaign trip there will be some occasion on which I atop at a friend's house, when I will drink a glass of wine; or there will be some public dinner when I will drink either a glass of wnlte wine or a class of champagne. cham-pagne. TFor example, In the Ohio campaign last year, during the nine days I touched nothing whatever on seven of the days, excepting st night aa above mentioned before going to bed, not drinking a drop of any kind until 1 was undresaed and went to bed. The other two days were th occasions when I spoke at Toledo and the occasion when I spoke at Cleveland. At Toledo, after the speech, Mr. Garfield, Mr. Post and I went to the house of Mr. and Mrs. Kheppey where we met Mayor and Mrs. Brand WhltTock. and we went Into the dtnlng room to take a little sup-par. sup-par. There waa some rhampagne and I first took a glass of champagne, and then found that there was a pitcher of milk and doughnuts and I took the milk and doughnuts Instead. On the afternoon of the day I went to Cleveland. I stopped at Ravenna, at the houae of Mr. Hanna. There I had a pot of tea and at dinner. T believe, but am not certain. 1 took a glass of champagne. Preferred Tea to Whisky. "Whtve at the white rwwtipe 1 ever touched brandy or whisky excepting the mint Juleps above mentioned and ixsatbly on two or three occasions when Ir Kixey prescribed a drink of whlss- one. If I remember, re-member, aright, for an acute attark of Indigestion and onre when he arffl I had made a hundred-mile ride together and came In through a snowstorm and he gave me some w'hisky. and I disliked It so that after taking a -fp J would not take any more ami gut a cup of tea Instead. In-stead. Outside of thene prcecrlptions of Dr. Rlxey. we usually had ataJunch some white wine If therr were guests, and often I drank nothing if there were guests. If we dined 'alone I drank nothing. noth-ing. If we had guests we usually had white wine, but gomettmef Madeira and at formal dinners we had charorsgt". of which I would drink a glass or two. Tells of White House Customs. "While at Washington almost all the entertainments wore st the white house itself, but esch member of the ahlnet gave a dinner, and I believe there, was always champagne at those dinners and I drank a glass or two pret-ijHy as at the white house. I also on perhaps a half dosen occasions went out, for Instance, to Die Orldiron club dinner, or to the reception of Speaker Cannon's seventieth birthday, or to a dinner of the New York delegation in congress. On these occasions I drank precisely aa In the white house. On the occasion of Mr. Cannon evening reception 1 went I n company with Mr. r.oph and with James Hloane, a secret service man. The occasion wan not In the afternoon. It was in the evening. We left the white house shortly after 9 and reiwerrled a little after 11 o'clock. Mr. Loch coming back with me and Sloane seeing me to the carriage when I left. Tells of Cannon Dinner. '.'On all public occaalons Mr. r.oeh went with me and also two secret service men. On the Cannon occasion I remember tits' one of these men w.is Mr. Blogine. I was with Mr. Newberrv. Mr. Cortelyou and others while there. Neither on this occasion oc-casion nor on any other occasion did I take a glass of whisky or brandy or any liquor in any form. On this occasion I took a aandwtch and a glaas of champagne, cham-pagne, which I drank standing up, pro-poatng pro-poatng the health of the apeaker on his beer except once. That was at the teut-m teut-m he- club. luenever I go to Milwaukee I try to go to the DeuttcUer club for a call. "At (heir request, I think In 190. I drank a mouthful of beer. They offered me beer and I asked If they could not get me some white wine, frying 1 never drank beer. They asked me if I would not take a mouthful anyway, because they -aid it was the beer that made Milwaukee Mil-waukee famoua. Sc. I look a mouthful and then took white wine. Thfv then all .-sng songs, but there was only one song In which I could Join. Same While Governor. "While I was governor and alwnva my nablta In using wine and champagne hae been practically as stated." Colonel Roosevelt was on the stand an hour and forty minutes. Of This time twenty-five mlnutea were taken up with crosa examination. Henry Rauthler, city ass-aeor of Ih-peming. Ih-peming. was the next witness. He teati-f'ed teati-f'ed con, eriUng the publication of the alleged al-leged libel. Attorneys for Mr. Newett said they would concede the publication of the st- a r i Colonel Rooeevelt s attornevs V$? insist upon proving ft mir&JJSf1, t.ne wrttor' Qed as the 53? T r,,nantaW,tneaV for Colonel Rocae-velt, Rocae-velt, testified that he wa U years old and was born In Denmark. BUs and Colonel Like Brothers. Co?e,M J 1 I.eateo78NewthVorWkeIfare ' K nssZ "H"' hlm. m' brother." said Rlls rnr ia vs. and nights w, walked the str-cte together WKtchln,? whethir th!! P'll''i- were on duty and looking Into the '.''.. ,1 )Ji (JX lli)fj i i feat ti res I e Isaissul houses. tenement Jl" f.rnr. I! of friendship continued contin-ued until after Colonel Roosevelt became president. trtm the fifteen tear von have known Mr. Roosevelt did you ever sec v. to Influence of liquor?" sa. Lord, no!" replied Mr. RIl. The statement that he has been a free user ,f liquor is a He. I have seen this man under the greatest stress, and never have I aeen hlm resort to liquor." "Is he a blasphemous man?" "No. he Is a gentleman." Argument followed between counsel aa to whether It was competent "for witnesses wit-nesses to testify whether Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt was a gentleman.'' Law Presumes Plaintiff g Gentleman. The court sustained an objection that the law presumed the plaintiff was a gentleman. When rroas examined Rlls wa asked whether his work as a writer took him out of politics. "It has put me right In the thick of It I have been fighting Tammany In New York for thirty years " "Did you ever see Mr. Roosevelt drink mint. Juleps?" - "I never did, and I don't believe he does. T have seen him drink champagne." cham-pagne." When Rlls was excused court adjourned ad-journed until 5 n m. Jury Is Selected. The Jury was completed last night at II ootock, after fifty-two veniremen had been examined. The furors were sworn In and then taken in charge by the sheriff. The following is a list of the Jurymen: Joseph Robear. Ishpemlng, teamster, aged ?5, married. William Pryor, Marquette, locomotive fireman, aged 27, married. Robert Bruce of Powell, woodsman, aged 54, married. W. H. Matthews of Oywnn, mining clerk, aged 25, married. Jiihn Frederlckson, Negaunee, miner, aged SI, single-Oust single-Oust Polcen of WaHs. married, blacksmith, black-smith, aged 32. William Sharp of Negaunee, bom In Entrland. aged 33. teamster, married: never heard of the rase until he got Into the courtroom today. John A. Johnson, farmer, Marquette county, aged 36, married. William Garrow of Ely, miner, aged "5. married. Andrew P. Johnson, aged 6S, miner, lives at Humboldt, married. Thomas Howard, aged 62, farmer, of Chocolay, married. Wears Bull Moose Button. During th questioning. Venireman August Au-gust Broden, a teamster of Ishpemlng. caused a smile to go around the room when he took his place In the Jury box w eari n g an aggress) v e Bui I Moose emblem em-blem on the lapel of his coat. The defense de-fense immediate) v found nil sorts of things the nwtur with Joseph and he was dismissed for cause. The veniremen examined. Including Broden. were mostly of Swedish or Irish extraction, but there were several native na-tive born and a Finn and a German. As regards profession, they were mainly miners, lumbermen or employees in the offices of the ore c-ompanies. They were all certain they enSuldn t he Influenced bv the fact that the plaintiff In the case had formerly been president of the Tnlted States, but that thev would he swayed only by the law and the evidence. evi-dence. Also, they were a unit In saying It was a serious thing to call a man a murderer, a thief or a drunkard If you couldn't prove It. Rome of them were dismissed because they had previously discussed thp case and had expressed decided de-cided opinions. Othera were dropped because be-cause of too close an acquaintance with the said Newett. while two walked the plank hecausa they ware brother Elks, the aW Newett being a charter member mem-ber of the Elk lodge of Ishpemlng Lawyer Jamea H. Pound of Detroit, the chief counsel for the prosecution, was much more particular in his examination exami-nation of Jurors than W. P. Balden, the chief lawyer for the defense, and demanded de-manded the removal for cense of five prospective Jurors to the defense's one. seventieth birthday. "No man who knew me ever asked me to take any whisky, because they knew that under no circumstances did I take It, and no man on thin occasion ever proposed to me to take whisky. The routine at the white house was as follows: fol-lows: White House Boutins. "We had breakfast at 8 or 9:30, Mrs. Kooevelt. the children and myself. After breakfast. If the weather was good, Mrs. Roosevelt and I walked around the white house grounds for twenty minutes or half an hour. I then came over to the white house office, and as soon aa I reached there Mr. Loeb came In with the mall and papers to sign. After about half an hour of this the senators and congreesmen would hegin to arrive. If it waa an ordinary ordi-nary day they would generally continue to arrive until 12 or 1, but If it was a cabinet day they would stop at 11 o'clock. Worked While (letting Shaved. "At 11 o'clock whn I went In to get shaved, I would uaually get Mr. Loeb In and dictate to him or he would take up with me the mall that had accumulated accumu-lated -1 trlng the morning and would receive re-ceive directions about the various things that had arisen during the morning. I would also frequently see some member of the cabinet or some man I knew intimately intimate-ly during that time, or some newspaper man would be allowed to come In to ask question. Mr. Loeb generally sitting by and waiting until the answer had been given and thenreeumlng the work. "Often Mr. Loefs would follow me out to the washroom and continue talking to me. and getting directions and laying matters before me while I washed my hands. I would then go to lunch. Im-medlstely Im-medlstely after lunch I would return to the offlc. I might then again work with Mr. Loeb for an hour or some member of the cabinet or other person with whom I had to talk over details of official business. busi-ness. Never Went Out for Drink. "I never in my life, srhlle In the white house or anywhere else, left a room for the purpose of getting a drink between meals, and it would hsWe been a physical impossibility for me to have left the room for any such purpose at any period of my work In the white house. "On the l"th and isth of February last 1 waa staying in New York with Mrs Roosevelt and my daughter at the Marquis Mar-quis hotel, 1 Bast Thirty-first street. To the best of my knowledge and belief there Is no bar In the hotel. Mrs. Roosevelt I and my daughter and I had breakfast 1 rvv1 In our apartment, at about t. Im-medtatalr Im-medtatalr afterwards on both days I walked down Madison avenue to Twenty-third Twenty-third strast across to Fourth avenue and tntu the Outlook office, doing work and aeema various people until about 5:30 the first dav and until a the next day, BTMngJ out for a few minutes for lunch. tVhen I left the office on Monday I walked up Fourth avenue to Thirty-first street sndj across to the Msrquls hotel, where J a-i tea with Km. Roosevelt On Tueaflay I left at B o'clock and took the 5 30 train from the Pennsylvania derot for Oyster t Bay. On neither dav did I touch a drop! of anything at anv time. When In town I usually, not alwavs. lunch with some members of the Outlook staff, and during i the three years during which 1 have onj an average of once or tstice lunched wtth! any one. I don't recall an instance where; I aver drank anything except either Irnilk, I tea or coffee. On these two days Icver' want up Fifth avenue nor above Thirty-! second street. Not In Waldorf for Ttare Tears. ! "I have not been In the Waldorf unless i at a public dinner for certainly three' v ears, and I was not In the Waldorf on j etTr of thore two days. On neither of thuse two days did I sro Into or coma out of any buOding In Fortv-stecond street. shd on neither of those two days did I shove Thirty-first or Thirty-second street on Fifth avenue. Between 4 and 6j oVIork five avenue Is denselv crowded. "For the last fifteen years T tnn give I M lo detail Just about what .f have dnk and I have given it - h.ve, and neither durlne tbe f!et. years n a awsj I have been of age have! I ever lender spy rlrrutittMnrHi been ht! even the smaMest degree under tke Influ-ii.' Influ-ii.' of liquor. F "I don't remember within th last dogen "years drinking even a part of a flags of j |