Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-12-10
ROOSEVELT makes REPLY TO
BELLAMY STORER
lie Asserts That Former Ambassador Distorted Facts
and Quoted From Letters Roosevelt Never Re-
ceived---Storers are Put in Bad Light
By the President.

fer Archbishop ireland, respect and
admiration which I have often pub
ltcly expressed. The letter from me
TO Mr.. and Mrs. Storer. quoted in Mr..
Storer's pamphlet, gave with precis-
ion my views both upon Archbishop
Ireland and upon the possibility or
propriety of my taking in his behalf
the steps which the Storers asked,
ind can add nothing to what these
letters themselves show. when they
first wrote to me on the subject /
was governor Of New York. Not be-
ing president myself, and not hav-
ing thought out with clearness the
exact situation, I asked President
Mckinley whether he could properly
dc anything for Archbishop Ireland.
He responded that it was not a mat
ter with which he could with proprie-
~ interfere although he expressed
himself as having the same high
opinion or Archbishop ireland that /
with the president upon the subject,
either just before or after my election
as vice president. In which he stated
what he felt was the proper position
"a position with which / absolutely
agreed"
IAN Absurd Untruti.s vi
The president says that after this
conversation. In the letter OF N6vem-
Der -. 1900. to Mrs. storer ana at all
times subsequently he stated that it
was out of the question for him to
try to get an archbishop made car
dinal. He repeatedly explained that
his friendship for. ireland (which ne
says was identical with his admiration
for many clergymen o. many demons
inations) would make him pleased to
see any good fortune attend him, or
any church man like him, but he
could not interfere in the ecclesias-
teal affairs of any church in his OF
any ones behalf. Con$ag1dnx Presi-
dent Roosevelt says: Ell
This was also the position 1 took
In all private conversations and any
assertion that in any private CONVEX
sation took an opposite position
from that which 1 was repeatedly ex-
pressing in writing, is not only ar
sntruth. but an absurd untruth: fol
4 would Of course not say privately
to any one the opposite OF what
n was repeatedly writing to that sam.
person. Mr.. Storer asserts that hi
had Mrs. Storer anc various othe,
people after conversation with me
put down memoranda as to what the,
remembered he said. II such actor
was taken 1t was Of course simply
dishonorable. No one Of them evel
showed me or would have ventured K
show me any such memoranda and /
is nonsense to expect to bind me~by I
memorandum, the existence OF which
was concealed from me. The Storer
were my. guests at the tir0e when a.
they asserted they made these mem
oranda of private conversation will
me. As a matter of fact the state.
ments they allege me to have made
were not made save insofar as wha
they allege me to have said befor
and after I wrote to them"
Quoting Privats Conversation.
| In this connection Mr.. Roosevelt
quotes statement issued from tn,
White House November 8, 1906
eleven days before TIE Storer pam
phlet appeared. saying taat for man!
years 1t has been tire custom not I,
attempt to quote private CONVEX
sation with the president because /,
had been found that the man win
quotes it usually misqUotes, and tina
such conversation is under no cir
cumstances to be he'd as calling 70
[ either an explanation or denial from
the president.
The letter goes on to say that Mrs
Storer wrote to the president witt
great freedom. both she and Store
making attacks on all sorts OF people
AT one time" says the presidentl
letter, '.she wrote me with great bit.
terness against the Protestant mis-
slonaries who were ltA'ng sent to tn,
Philippines. at the same time re
questing me to champion Archbishop
Ireland because he had been loyal to
the United States during the war with
Spain. which was asserted was no
true as to another Catholic bishop
whom she named"
The president says that he was al
ways reluctant to write Mrs. Storei
in way which would nurt her feel.
ings but then he wrote her exactly
what his position was. relling her thai
she should remember that there arr