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Show Where Representative McDermott Drew the Line il CANDIDATE for congress has to A stand for a good many things, luit 1 draw the line on drinking snake liquor," said Representative James T. McDermott of Illinois. "You see, it was this way. I had been in a mighty hard campaign and was about exhausted. I dropped into a cafe run by an old German. He inquired in-quired about my health, and I told him that I was 'all in.' " 'My side hurts, my head aches, my lungs are sore and I am just about .played out,' I complained. "'I bin mighty glad you tolt me about it,' he replied, all sympathy at once. '1 got der stuff dat vill yust Jix dat all riyht.' 'Willi that he reached beneath the jar . and pulled out a big bottle in which there were -floating half a dozen small eniikea, and he Insisted that I jl-.onld take a drink of the mixture '".It -viM .make jdat all right in no dK$V hot on time,' he explained, sympathetically. "Now I wanted this man's friend- ' ship, but I simply could not go the snakes. I have heard that Bnakes could be found in things handed over the bar, but this was a little too realistic realis-tic for me. "I afterward learned that he turned against me for refusing to take his remedy and that he voted for my op- j ponent; but I think that it was asking too much of a man to expect him to i drink liquor in which he cau see : snakes in advance." |