The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-09

is obviously intended TO he discredlt.
The correspondence shows the family
relntions of the President and the Sto-
rers from the time Mr. Roosevelt was
Governor of New YORK Just after the
Spanish American war.
Some of the Roosevelt letters 10 Sto-
rer were addressed My Dear Bella
NV and to his wife, "Mv Dear Ma
ria" and Mrs Storer addressed the
President as "Dear Theodore.
Mr. Storer asserts that Roosevelt
himself while Governor of New York,
urged the Storers to use their iufu-
enre with the Vatican for ireland S pro
motion, believing the prelate s we'll
known patriotism would aid IN solving
the problems connected with the Cath
olic church in the Philippines. The
later letters Of Mr.. Roosevelt as Presl-
dent are published evidently to show
the President g alleged inconsistency.
Roosevelt Is Severe.
One letter Of the President to Mrs.
Storer dated December II, 1903, after
the efforts of the Storers IN behalf of
Archbishop Ireland began to attract at
tention, contains the following pas
sages:
and reflections upon my own personal
conduct give me no concern, but ! an
very gravely concerned at the mis-
chievous effect .your letters must have
in misrepresenting the position of the
United States Government and by the
fsr-reaching Governmental scandal your
indiscretion may at any time cause.
Your letters not only convey to-
tally wrong impression Of my attitude
but thev are such as YOU have no busl-
ness whatever 10 write, IN view or the
position of your husband in the dlplo-
matte service.
81, q
Val TO YOU of November % is re-
buke to you. expressing plainly his be
lief that YOU have been unwarrantably
oilicious in matters with which You
have properly no concern lJ should
of itself be enough to show you how
exceedingly unwise and improper your
action in writing to him was.
81 am indignant that the wife OF an
ambassador in the United States ser
vice should have written such letter,
should have given the impression un-
doubtedly conveyed in that letter and
should have incurred such a rebuke,
"You don't seem to realize that it
is out of the question for me know
ingly 10 permit the wife Of one of our
diplomats TO engage in ecclesiastical
intrlgues to influence the Vatican.
Promise Is Demanded.
After referring to the report that
Mrs. Storrer was known in Europe as
the American Embassadress to Rome,
Mr.. Roosevelt closes thus;
81 must ask you to give me this pos
tive promise in writing if Bellamy is
to continue in the service. and if you
even unintentionally violate 1t | shall
have to ask for Bellamy's resignation,
for l cannot longer afford to have the
chance of scandal being brought on the
lIo10 nd
on the Government itself by such in
discreet and ill-advised action as yours
has BEEN
"I cannot trust myself to express
fully the feeling of indignation with
which / read the letter TO Mrs.
Storer," says Mr., Storer.
"Though I was In the public ser
vice, felt and still feel that l had
lost none Of the rights which man
has to Judge of the propriety of letters
addressed to his wife, and to resent an
improper communication.
EtI did not then know what [ have
since learned, that the letter was not
even written for my wife s eyes nor
mine alone, but had been shown to
others before it was sent, and thus
used TO make a case against lady,
trusting friend, who could not be heard
in her own defense.
"My wife was deliberately accused
of having quoted isolated sentences
from the President s letters to convince
other persons that he was doing ex
actly what, as he asserts, he had eX-
plicitly stated in writing that he would
not do.
Based on No Evidence.
"This charge of shameful conduct
was based on no evidence which could
even have misled the writer into a
hasty Judgment, but was in answer TO
n letter which, whether approved or
not, at least furnishes no such evi-
dence either in itself or in its in
closures.
"The tone of long suffering and out
ragged patience, the careful omission %
all mention of anything that the writer
had himself done and authorized to be
done in the matters complained of, the
quotation from the letters written at
the time Of my errand 10 the Pope,
without any of tho facts and circum
stances related above which would give
these letters their true character or
show that they were An angry complaint
because what he had directed to be
with the abusive personal characterize
tion of my wife and the assumed In
dignation with which it had been in
fact permitted and encouraged where
not expressly directed, seemed to me
put the letter outside the limit of any
thing iustiGable even in a stranger.
tWhat sense Of outraged friendship
it aroused in us can perhaps be un-
derstood by anyone who has read even
the small part Of the private CORE
spondcnce given above
In concluding his letter, which is
dated at Cincinnati, November, 1906,
the former Embassador says:
"I write this letter without the
knowledge Of Archbishop Ireland. ~