The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-11
MRS. STORER SAYS
=: STORY. IS GARBLED
Takes, 4xception to "Created
Roosevelt" Interview-Bellamy
:. Storer Talks More.

. Cincinnati, Dec. IA remarkable
interview published here today credited
Mrs. Bethany Storer with the state
ment that she and her husband "cre-
ated President Roosevelt Mrs. Stor-
er-today said that while she had seen
newspaper woman last night and had
said some Of the things credited to her,
the report as published gave an entire
ly different complexion to everything
been given to certain Incidents related
during the interview. While unable
to deny that such an interview had
been given size said that so incorrect
and garbled a report had been pub
Hshed thatzi it did net give her views or
statements and she did not want it to
zbe considered as coming from her. Be
yond this she refused to discuss the
matter. ~ -. - = / %. , j$Et. -. 80
, According to the interview to which
Mrs. storer salludes. President Roose-
welt owes much today to Mr.. storer
and herself. In this interview Mrs
Storer is quoted as saying that it was
thru a personal appeal on her part that
President Mckinley appointed Mr..
Roosevelt assistant secretary of the
navy. Mr.. Roosevelt was then COM
missioner Of police in New York, and
according to Mrs. Storer, so her inter-
viewer says, Mr.. Mckinley was strong
ly opposed to giving Mr.. Roosevelt the
place in the navy department. .Ac-
cording to the same interviewer, Mrs.
Storer quoted a letter of Mr.. Roosevelt
expressing a deep sense of gratitude to
Mr.. and Mrs. Storer for their kind Of
fees. Furthermore, the interviewer
| says that Mrs. Storer said:
"Before his election as president he
had worked hard and had three people
working for the election of Archbishop
Ireland as cardinal. After his election
as president he was so afraid the peo-
pie would find him out that he has de-
MED all these things and turned against
his oldest and best friends. His be.
havior is mostr extraordinary. I only
say these things because Mr.. Roosevelt
| IN his letter spoke Of us as importu-
| nate persons that gave him great deal
| OF annoyance and finally wore out his
! patience.'
The following statement in reply to
the letter of President Roosevelt has
| been issued by Mr.. Storer:
"My letter to the president and his
cabinet was written for the cool, DELHI
crate judgment Of men who should be
| kept informed Of the true facts in the
| conduct Of the administration. It was
not written for the public nor hurried
| 1y given to the press to anticipate pub
| lie opinion. It stands, when taken in
full, as my statement, and should be
taken as an entirety, and, as such. I
ask its calm perusal. In itself it is
an answer to many things the ,presi-
dent has seen fit to say, but as new
matter has been put forward by Mr..
Roosevelt [ feel compelled to speak.
insulting ad5ectives to show that the
president dislikes me and did not wish
me to remain in the service or to retire
from it in any customary way.
SWhile the past has shown that few
men can differ with either the wishes
Or the memory of Mr. Roosevelt with
out at once becoming a scoundrel and
a liar, L must make some comments on
what he has given out at the White
| House. III ~"-'rz
II give in full letter from the
president in answer to What he said
was written by my wife. I do this,
both because it is d letter for him to
be proud Of from its full appreciation
Of eminent public men (apart from any
reference to myself) and also to show
that my wife's letter to which this was
an answer, now spoken Of only with a
sheer, was considered differently by Mr..
1 Roosevelt at the time it was received.
e." Executive Mansion, Washington,
J wv 80 4ICetl LOU su0SO
never be afraid of writing me or Of ask
ing anything. If it is in my power tc
grant it, I shall do so. If, for any rea
sons, whether political in the narrow o.
in the larger sense, | cannot, / shall tel
you so frankly. Personal reasons can
never exist when I do not do anything
you say. .s 4: Z.
/ (" Bellamy was right about it's being
needless to write me in order to keep
him in mind. / think Of both of you
all the time, and have gone over sever.
! al times possible plans. First, as to the
cabinet. 1T is very unlikely now that ]
4 shall change any memberSof the pres.
ent cabinet. You have probably seen
that have asked them all to stay The
secretary of war, Root, is one of the
4 very strongest men before the people
i in our whole party. His Canton speech
was the most effective delivered in the
J campaign last year. His advice is in
/ valuable, not merely in reference to his
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