Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-10

"Under President Mckinley Mir. Storer was made minister first to Bel
 gium and then to Spain. About the
 time of my accession to the vice presi- dency wrote at President McKinley's request to MT. or Mrs. Storer that the
 president desired me to say that Mir.
 Storer was ultimately to be made an ambassador. Mir. and Mrs. Storer
 were greatly interested in securing the
 promotion of Archbishop Ireland to be
 cardinal. I had and have sincere
 respect and admiration for .Archbishop
 Ireland, respect and admiration
 which have often publicly expressed.
 The letters from me to Mir. and Mrs.
 StOrer quoted in Mir. StOrer's pam
 phlet give with precision my views
 both upon Archbishop Ireland and up-
 on the possibility or propriety of my taking in his behalf the steps which
 the Storers asked. and l, can add noth.
 ing to what these letters themselves
 show. When they first wrote to me on
 the subject I was governor of New
 York --. --.s.s.--e---
 "Not being president myself and not
 having thought out W clearness the
 exact situation, asked President Me
 Kinley whether he could properly do
 anything to help Archbishop Ireland.
 He responded that it was not mat ter with which he could with propriety
 interfere, although he expressed him. self as having the same high opinion of the archbishop that had. had q of the archbishop that had.
 ''This was also the position I took in all private conversation, and the as- sertion that in any private conversa- ton that took an opposite position from that which was thus repeatedly expressing in writing is not only an untruth. but an absurd untruth. for I would. of course, not say privately to any one the opposite of what I was repeatedly writing to that same per son. Mir. Storer asserts that he and Mrs. Storer and various other people, after conversations with me. put down memoranda as to what they remem- bered I had said. If such action was taken 1t was. of course. dishonorable No one of them ever showed me or would have ventured to show me any such memoranda. and 1t is nonsense to expect to bind me by a memorandum the existence of which was concealed from me.
 "As for Mr. Storer's assertion that I authorized him to say to his holiness that, as personal favor to me. wish- ed Bishop Ireland appointed cardinal Is untrue. l gave him no such authori- | Eation. Mr. Storer proceeds to say that he at once wrote me letter giving a full account of his visit to the Vatican i and of the message he personally gave ! the pope A careful search of the files h my office fails to show any such let ter from him.
 'As soon as became president I be- gan to receive letters from Mrs. Storer asking for the promotion of Mir. Storer and letters from both of them com planning that the work in Madrid vas uncongenial and complaining also ,f the character and standing of vari- | ,us people in the public service On Sept. 22. 1901. eight days after Pres dent Mckinley's death. Mrs. storer wrote me urging that I should appoint Ar. Storer to the cabinet and specify ng ss a desirable place the war de 'artment. of which you were the head. he letter running: Please give him .ither the navy or war. sIE 'rsy that Bellamy. who % richly de 'erves It. shall have a chance for hon. 'rable service at home to Lis country
 -when explained that did not In- end to remove any one or make any hanxes in the cabinet at the time she srOse me on Oct. 17 suggesting the .mbossies at London and Paris as ft 'isces for her husband
 Ny letter of May IS 1sa. to Mrs. ltorer says.
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