The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-08
SlURER REBELS.
Late Ambassador to Austria
Writes Letter to Roosevelt.
Sends Copies to the Members of
the Cabinet.
HE DEFENDS HIMSELF
And Mrs. StOrer From Accusa-
tiOns of the President.
Makes Public Letters Addressed
to Both of Them
While the Chief Executive Was
Governor of New York.
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TERMS OF INTIMACY.
Given Names Were Used on Both
Sides in Correspondence.
Alleges Inconsistency and That
Dismissal Was Unwarranted.


Chicago. Dec S.-The Chicago Tri-
bune in its Washington dispatches to-
day says that an extraordinary letter
has been addressed by Bellamy Storer
to President Roosevelt. and the mem
bers of his cabinet in regard to his dis
rnissal from the post of ambassador of
the United States to Austra-Hungar ~.
Mr.. Storer was dismissed because of
his wife's supposed interference in at
fairs OF the Roman Catholic churches
and her alleged misuse of letters from
the president
It was also charged that Mrs. Stor-
er had meddled with French politics
by taking part in anti Republican in
trigue to promote the marriage of
Victor Bonaparte with a member of
the Orleans family. Both of these
charges Mr.. Storer denies and. on the
other hand declares that the presi-
dents interest in the selection OF Arch
bishop Ireland, as a cardinal was not
due to StOrer or to StOrer'S wife but
to the president alone
The text OF Mr. Storer's letter was
printed and transmitted not only to
the president but also to mem bers of
the foreign relations committee Of the
senate
Nj. Storer says that his removal in
so summary a manner suddenly dis
missed him from an office which he
had been given reason to believe he
had filled to the satisfaction both of
his own government and of that to
which he was accredited and being ac-
companied by no public legislation, it
exposed him to suspicion and injurious
conjectures such as must naturally
arise when a man in public office is
abruptly dismissed by his government
with what IS obviously intended to be
dfscredit The correspOn dence shows
the familiar relations of the president
and the Storers from the time Mr..
Roosevelt was governor of New York.
Just after the Spanish war. Some of
the Roosevelt letters to Storer were
his wife MY Dear Maria" and Mrs.
Storer addressed the president as
Dear Theodore"
Charges Inconsistency.
Mr.. Storer asserts that Roosevelt,
himself while governor Of New York.
urged the Storers to use their influence
with the vatican for Ireland's promo
ton. believing the prelate's we'll known
patriotism would aid in solving the
problems connected with the Catholic
church in the Philippines
one letter of the president to Mrs.
Storer. dated December II, 1905, after
the efforts Of the Storers in behalf Of
Archbishop Ireland began to attract
Your direct or implied complaint Of
and reflections upon my own personal
conduct give me no concern, but I am
very Rravely concerned at the mis-
chievous effect your letters must have
in raisrepresenung the position of the
United States government and by the
far reaching governmental scandal
xorr fndfscretion may at any time
your letters not only convey a
totally wrong impression of my atti-
tude but they are such as you have
NJ business whatever to write in view
~ +1e position of your husband in the
diplomatic service
IS out of the question for me knowing
~ 10 hermit the wife of one of our
dinlonnats to engage in ecclesiastic in
friEues to influence the vatican
American Ambassadors.
AFTER referring to the reports that
Mrs. Storer was known in Europe as
the Am erican am baSsadreSs to Rome
M roosevelt closes thus;
~ must ask you to give me this
mosftive promise in writing If Bellamy
70 continue in the service and If you
@wav, Internationally violate it, I shall
have to ask for Bellauly's resignation,
FOR 7 can no longer afford to have the
chance of scandal being brought on
he entire American diplomatic service
and on the government itself by such
fndiscreet and i'll advised action as
IT cannot trust myself to express
<n1- the feeling Of indignation with
which I read the letter to Mrs
S+orer." says Mr.. Storer.
s-r717orrh / was in the public SER
vsce I felt and stilI feel that I had lost
-,nTe II the rights which a man has
+, Judge Of the prpDriety Of letters ad-
4 reesed to his vile and to resent an
sTnDroper communication
II id not then know what I have
-tv,cs learned. that the letter was not
v-ritten for my wife's eyes or mine
.ro-9e but had been shown to others
49,, II vas sent and used to make
a case AGAINST a lads. a trusting friend,
Who could not be heard in her own
Defense