Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-12-11
I1bRER COMES BACK With
AN0THER LETTER

ing weight when they explain the pol !
itics, purposes and acts OF my adj |
ministration.
There is the one point on which the
present cabinet is not as strong as 1t
should be- l do not believe that a
finer, ADLER, more high minded oody
of public servants was ever got to-
gether around president, but there
is no one of them, with the possible
exception of Root (who is 50 busy that
he can hardly ever speak) who can APP
pear before the country with the pres
tige of great political leader to ex-
plain and champion my administration.
If I could at any time fill this want
should most ardently desire to DO
so. In other words, for a cabinet place
the man should. IL possible, be not
only eminently fit for the administra-
ton OF his department, but also II
possible a hearty leader Of weight.
And furthermore, it Is rarely that one
can fill cabinet position with refer
ence only to itself, all surrounding
conditions must be taken into ac-
count.
Now as to foreign affairs, my in
quiries develop the fact that Cath
Ollie just at present would not be a man
whom It would be wise to send to
Germany. For wholly different rea-
sons, 1t would not be wise to send
him to Italy. had not thought OF or
known either of these facts when /
advocated your going to Italy. As soon
as made inquiries to the effect both
here and abroad of appointments to
Germany and Italy, I found what the
facts were. In no other country would
the question Of Catholicism cause any
serious trouble, but I have not the
slightest idea whether any man In
tends at present to leave his position.
I "'Of Porter in France, I hear MOTH
ing but the strongest praise. He seems
to have done peculiarly well. 1t would
be injustice Of fragrant kind to turn
him out at the present time. 1t g
of course always possible that make
a shift, and II in doing SO France
should be convenient, I should offer II
to Bellamy at once. unless 1t happened
that / was able to offer him cabf-
net position; but as things are just a,
this time do not see the likelihood
Of such a condition arising. have
Il
want you to understand exactly, how
the thing now stands.
Faithfully yours.
4 THEODORE ROOSEVELT
1.-The president says: The assertion
that I authorised him to make suci
statement. as he says he was author
ICED to make to the pope, is untrue.
: gave him no such authority
That Visit to the Pope.
He omits to note that he himsel
told Archbishop Ireland that he ha,
done so and the letter of the latter t
me which I had quoted. have read.
to submit with other letters of wha
the president told Archbishop Irelan,
relative to his message through me t
the pope.
HE says, and it is supported by MI
Loeb, that he never received my let
ter reporting in detail my visit, to tn
. vatican. That letter was written an
q mailed at Meran, within the Austria
4 frontier after my first stop afte
i leaving Rome. The date is the fourt
e or fifth OF December, 1903, and the lie,
ter is the one referred to by me |
: my own letter to the president {
II January 10. 1904, where I say: AS
T. wrote you exactly what 1 did and salt
GU may judge whether l over
i stepped
1T is pity the letter in questio
n cannot be found. The presidei
3 charges me with 'disingeniousness'
o the matter of my resignation in Jan
U uary, 1904, the one which was refuse
" by him, and says that my resignatic
II was based on another reason entire
q than my going to the vatican to col
&c vey his message and his treatment
l. the matter afterward. He had
&c the strongest terms already Forbid,
H. me to refer to that matter and a
i ready forbidden me to quote him aga
II in reference to II. 1t was thereto
% quite proper and natural not to spes
II OF it, but simply leave that to him
IL accept my resignation on any groul
IL that he chose, or on no ground at G
&c IL he saw lit.
The Hurst incident. In which
10 principle was right. but felt that
: had been wrong IN detail, and was n
= afraid to say SO, afforded me a pc
&c feet opportunity TO tender my resi-
'e nation without again troubling t
ie presidents susceptibilities regardil
~ his message to Rome. If the word wa
~ lean was not mentioned In my lett
d Of resignation, the facts were in G
i istence within the knowledge of I
Y president all the same. II was II
~ months only before the renominati
IL convention and j was DESTROYS
&c avoiding any possible embarrassing
y to Mr.. Roosevelt in any way. tt
$ now becomes particular perfidy'
my part, in the view and language
- the president of the Uhited States.
- I have already said, my original lett
is really an answer to everything el
Al contained in the presidents commu
10 ication to the press. I ask delibera
10 judgment on 1t in reply to whatever
- has seen fit to charge upon me a
u mine"
&c What Was Said to the Pope.
1.-The crux Of the whole raatt