Show ROOSEVELT TELLS OF HIS HABITS ON OH WITNESS STAND former president describes described himself as a temperate man though not a total abstainer from intoxicants marquette ilch theodore roose hoose velt ell twice president of the united states took the witness stand in the county court of marquette county michigan on tuesday and defended himself under oath against alega tlona of drunkenness colonel booso velt said with great earnestness that he be never drank a highball or a cocktail in his life that he had novel never been under the influence of liquor to tho the slightest degree decree and that while not a total abstainer he was very nearly one in fifteen years ho be declared ho had consumed loss less than h dozen drinks of whiskey and then usually under a doctors order the whiskey measured in a graduated glass lie ile never took two drinks ol of whiskey in the samo same day and while at state banquets he sometimes took a single glass of champagne in obedience to custom he seldom had wine on his private table 0 on n two occasions the colonel drank mint juleps away from washington once in fix st louis and again in little rock hock ark the colonel was testifying in hit suit ault against georce A newett the michigan editor who had published an article in his newspaper charging colonel roosevelt Roo evelt with drunkenness |