The National tribune., 1906-12-13
A DIPLOMATIC
KETTLE OF WRATH.
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either you or Mr.. Choate or Mr.. Porter
for the purpose Of giving MFR. Storer
either Cabinet position or the En-
| bassy I'm England or France.
| AS Mr.. Storer in his pamphlet quotes a
letter of Nov. - from me, marked per-
| sonal. In which I told his wife that he
should be made Special Embassador at
the marriage Of the King OF Spain, al
legfng that this was q fresh mark Of my
approval OF his conduct, I may mention
that the letter containing this statement
on my part was in answer to one from
Mrs. Storer. in which she begged for ths
appointment of her husband. her letter
| running. in part, AZ follows: Please,
please send us to Madrid as special en-
yoys to the wedding. It would be very
appropriate. and would love It. IT
Is hard to find the exact words in which
to criticize Mr.. Storer's effort to twist
the meaning Of my granting such a
request, couched in such a style
The President then declares that the
statement that he sent any word of any
kind to the Pope about anybody is "uu-
true" And. my goodness. but he does
skin the two of them alive when he
refers to the fact that while they were
guests I'm his house the two of them,
cOnspiring together. made memoranda
Of conversations with the President. and
later used IT, This, the Pre- sident de-
afterward states that il was untrue, be-
sides.
weuIdnt Stop the Missionaries.
On May 6, 1900, the President wrote
letter to Mrs. Storer. which he him
self quotes. having kept a copy. 1t be-
gins:
MY Dear Mrs. Storer:
.Your letter of the 4th has just come
to hand: also that of the 9Th. I am
very, very fond of you. and that is the
reason your letters put me in guam
Diary. You want me to do all kinds of
things that 1 cannot possibly do. and
that / ought not to do; and you say
things which / do not want to contra
dict. and yet 1t makes me Seel hypo-
critical if I seem to acquiesce in them"
And then he fatty refused to do what
she asked, which was to stop Protestant
missionaries from going into the Phil
ippine Islands to work.
CAS- YOU know, I always treat Catho-
lie and Protestant exactly alike. as /
do Jew or Gentle, as I do the man o.
native American, German, Irish or any
other kind Of parentage. Any discrim-
ination for or against man because
of his creed or nativity strikes me as
an infamy.'
The Presidents Summing Up.
The President gives space to the same
letters that Storer did, but he prints all
of the letters and Storer didn't, and 1t
makes a difference. 1t does indeed, an1
in the Presidents favor. And the Pres
dent also makes public a letter from
Storer, in which that gentleman abject-
ly begs pardon for the things he had
said and done at a time when every
body that had the Presidents confidence
f1iI 4, Ia.r lo a
at that time-in 1904--but the Presi-
dent, in his magnanimity, permitted
Storer to remain. and assured him that
he believed that the things Storer had
done We're not Intentionally done, ana
declared his confidence in the man who
even then, it would seem, was plotting
to use the President to further the
schemes of himself and wife.
The President sums up the whole dis
graceful business in the following:
There could be no fuller confession
of wrongdoing or more absolute throw
ing himself upon the mercy of his SUI
perior. 1t was this letter which I an
swered saying. as he has himself quot
ed. that | would treat the incident az
closed and would not accept his resis-
nation. and that i was sure that John
Hay felt as I did. With peculiar per-
fidy Mr.. StOrer now seeks to turn this
act cf cordial. and I think I may add
generous, friendship on my part into an
attack upon me by treating my refusal
to accept his resignation as an indorse-
ment of his position in the matter OF
the Vatican, to which there was abso-
lutely no allusiOn whatever of any kind
or sort in his letter of resignation. This
bare recital of facts is in itself the Sc
verest possible condemnation of Mr..
Storer's disingenuousness."