Show SAVAGE FLING AT AUDIENCE inebriated orator resented disapproval of his condition like many a statesman of 0 the past said senator beveridge he drank too much and one fourth of july morning on a platform hung with flags and flowers before the courthouse of a country town facing an audience of farmers and their families that had bad come from miles around the statesman arose to deliver the independence day oration in a slightly intoxicated state elate ile he wap not incapable of an oration but his unsteady gait his flushed face and disordered attire spoke ill III of him and the audience hissed ile he hald ht ld up his hand they were silent client then he laughed scornfully and said ladles ladies and gentlemen when a tta ta of my prominence consents to appear in duch a little one horse town as this he must be either drunk or dr crazy I 1 prefer to be considered an An washington star |