Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-02
MRS. STORER TALKS.
Former Ambassadors Wife Interviewed at Vienna.
DENIES ABUSING PRESIDENTS TRUST
Letter From Roosevelt When Gov- ernOr of New York Was to Be Used to Convince Vatican of Amer
 ica's Friendly Attitude.


 VIENNA, April 2-Mrs. Bellamy Sto- Ter. wife of the retiring American am bassador, has reconsidered her decision to maintain complete silence ill regard to the controversy aroused over her husbands recall. It the course of an interview she said:
 After consynation and following the advice of mdhy of our friends, par ticularly that of the Marquis de Rever- seaux, the French ambassador, | have decided to formally deny that I ever r abused a letter of President Roosevelt, as has been asserted. The president has never written me on the subject of Archbishop Ireland except in letter last December upon another subject. MT. Roosevelt when governor of New York wrote me a letter in 1900, to which the report presumably alludes. This letter was written to me so that might show 1t to Cardinal Rampolla, then papal secretary of state, in order to convince the Vatican of the friendly attitude of prominent Americans to- ward Archbishop Ireland's policy. It was all done to help our government in its relations with the Philippines. sent Cardinal Rampolla copy of only half of the letter because the other half was purely personal. That is all I wish to say about the matter. Neither my husband nor myself is going to indulge in recriminations against the president. We will wait and see what the authori- ties at Washington think right to pub fish about the matter. If they publish their reasons for the recall of MT. Sto- Ter we have many proofs of the right being on our side"
 The letter of MT. Roosevelt, who was then governor of the state of New York, which was dated in 1900, is as follows:
 T have just received your letter. need not say what pleasure it would be for me to do anything for Archbish- op Ireland. You know how high re- gard I have always felt for him. He represents the type of Catholicism which in my opinion must prevail in the United States if the. Catholic church is to attain it's full measure of power and usefulness with our people and our form of government.
 T absolutely agree with what Judge Taft says to you in his letter of March 20 with relation to that part of this problem which affects the Philippines, but the problem as a whole affects the United States as a whole. A reaction ary or in any way anti-American spirit in ecclesiastical affairs would in Amer ica in the long run result in disaster just as certainly as similar course in political affairs. l may add that the bigoted opponents of Catholicism are those most anxious to see triumph within the ranks of Catholicism this reactionary spirit and the throwing out of men who have shown broad liberal ,isrnrs;and Americanism.ssh their policy. Of course I do not feel justified in in- terfering in any way, directly or indi- rectly, in the matter at the Vatican, but it is only fair in response to your letter that I should write you fully and frankly of my great appreciation of Archbishop Ireland and of my firm conviction that the real future of the Catholic church in America rests with those who in the main work along his I;paC