The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-12-13
A PROD FOR ST0RER
President Biffs Discharged
Consul With Big Stick.
MRS. STORER INVOLVED
Roosevelt StrenuousIy Denies AiIega
ton That He Asked Pope to Give
Cardinal "Top Pisce" to arch
bishop ireland.

Tie Chicago Tribune In its Wash
ington dispatches Saturday stated that
an extraordinary letter has been ad-
dressed by Bellamy Storer to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the members Of
his cabinet in regard to his dismissal
from the post CT ambassador of thu
United States to Austrla-Hungary.
Mr.. Storer was dismissed because
of his wife's supposed interference
in affairs OF the Roman Catholic
church and her alleged misuse of let
ters from the president. 1t was also
charged that Mrs. Storer had meddled
with French politics by taking part In
arti-republican intrigue to promote
the marriage of Victor Bonaparte
with a member Of the Orleanist
family.
Both of these charges Mr.. Storer
denies and, on the other hand, de-
clares that the presidents interest
in the selection of Archbishop Ireland
rs a cardinal was not due to S:orer
or to Storer's wife, but to the presi.
dent alone.
The text of Mr.. Storer's letter was
printed and transmitted not only to
the president and his cabinet, but to
members of the foreign relations COM
mittee OF the senate. Mr.. Storer
says that his removal In so sum-
mary a manner, suddenly dismissins
him from an Office which he had been
given reason to believe he mad filed
to the satisfaction Of both his own
government and that to which he
was accredited and being accompa.
MED by no public explanation. expos.
ed him to suspicious and injurious
conjectures such as must, naturally
arise wheG man in public office Is
abruptly dismissed by his govern
nent.
The correspondence shows the fa-
miliar relations of the president and
the Storers from the time Mr.. Roose-
welt was governor of New York un-
til just after the Spanish war. Some
of the Roosevelt letters to Storer
were addressed my dear Bellamy,"
and to his wife, my dear Maria, !"
and Mrs. Storer addressed the presi-
dent as Dear Theodore"
President Wields Big Stick.
A Washington special says: Presi.
dent Roosevelt Sunday night made
public a long letter addressed to Sec
retary Root, giving correspondence
between the president and former Am.
!,assador Bellamy Storer, at Vienna.
Austria, and Mrs. Storer, in which he
says that Mr.. Storer's refusal to an
swer his letters and the publication
OF various private letters justified
the ambassadors removal; that Mr..
Storer's publication of private cores
pundence was peculiarly ungentle-
manly, and that he (the president)
had stated with absolute clearness his
position, the reason why it was out
OF the question for him as president to
try to get any archbishop made car,
dinal. He. says he thinks it well
that the cabinet members should
knew certain facts (which he (Stor-
err either suppressed or misstates."
He says he did not resent the &C.
ton Of the Storers until it became
evident they were likely to damage
American interests
He says Mrs. Storer urged him to
give her husband cabinet place and
that she stated that Mr.. Choate, at
London, and General Porter, at Paris:
were not proper persons to be am
bassadors, suggesting her husband IN
that connection The president In
corporates a letter from Postmaster
General Cortelyou contradicting the
statement that President Mckinley
mad commissioned a gentleman to ask
the pope, "as a personal favor to
him. and as ''an honor to the cou1-
try" to appoint Archbishop Ireland
as cardinal. Mr.. Cortelyou says the
late president never made any such
reauest. The president declares that
Mr.. Storer's statement that he au.
thorized any such message to be de-
livered to the pope is untrue. He
says that he never received letter
from Ambassador Storer giving an ac-
count of his visit to the vatican. and
of the message he personally gave the
pope on behalf of Mr.. Roosevelt.