The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-10
PRESIDENT HEAPS
ABUSE ON ST0RER
ACCUSES FORMER AMBASSADOR
OF RANK MIS- STATEMENTS
REGARDING DISCHARGE.
WAS A MENACE TO u. S.
Interests Because Of the Over-Zealous
Efforts Of He and Wife to Have
ireland Promoted, Says
Roosevelt.

Washington, Dec. 9.-President
Roosevelt tonight made public long
letter addressed to Secre AIRY Root
giving the correspondence between
/ the president and former Ambassador
| Bellamy Storer at Vienna and Mrs
Stoier in which he says that Mr.
Storer's refusal to answer his letters
/ and the publication Of various private
| let ers justified the ambassadors re.
moyal that Mr. Storer's publication
| of private corr spondence was
| pecul arly ungentIemanly and that ho
| dhe presiden) had stated with alb
solute cleaness his position, the rea-
son why it was out Of the ques ion
for him as president, to try to get
any archbishop made cardinal,
though expressing his admiration for
Archbishop Ireland as well as others
of other denominations.
He says he thinks it well that the
members of the cabinet should know
certain facts (which he (Storerl
either uppresses or misstates.
Meaaced American interests.
He says he did not resent the ac
ton of the Storers until it became
evident they we're Likely to damage
American interests" He says Mrs
storcr urged him 10 give her husband
a cabinet place and that she stated
that Mr. Choate at London and Gen
eral Porter at Paris were not proper
persons to be ambassadors, sug
gesting her husband in that connec
tion, The president incorporates a
letter from Postmaster General Cor
telyou, contradic ing the statement
that President Mckinley had com
missioned gentleman to ask the
Pope "as personal favor To him
and as "an honor 20 the country" to
appoint Archbishop Ireland as car
dnal
Mr. Cortelyou says the late presi- |
dent naver made any such request,
The president declares that Mr., |
Storer's statement that he All
thorized similar message to Pope |
Plus is untrue. He says that he never
received a letter from Ambassador
Stcrer giving an account of his Writ |
to the Vatican and of fhe message |
he personally gave the Pope on be-
half of Mr.. Roosevelt.
The presidents action tonight fol.
lows the publication of the con
fidential pamhet" which Mr., Storer
last week sent to the president The
cabinet and the senate foreign rela.
tions committee.
The Presidents Letter
The White House Washington, D. |
c., Dec 2, 1906.-"My Dear Mr.. Root;
In view of the fact that MIR. Bellamy
Storor sent to each member of the
cabinet, aswell as myself. pamphle'
under date Of November 20. 1906. |
purporting to give an account ,nt the
relations with me. which led TO slis re
moval from the position of amhassa-
dor al Vienna. blink it Is wen that
sou and other members of the cabirctI
should know certain facts which he
either Supprcsscs or miss ates. As
10 the necessity for removing hi1i.
from thia pos tion, | Suppose there 5
no neeI of discussion. An ambasst-
dor whc refuses to answer the letters
of the president cannot remain an am.
bassado- Ills statement that my lei
tors to aim were Of such q character
that he could not answer Them needs
no further comment than TO point our
tha. in uch case it was his clear duty 4
instantly to resign.
Ills publication Of The various pri
vate letters between his wifc and
himself and nc would fru sh any
additional justification. were such
needed. for his summary separation
frc NTH service.
1T * rcvor pleasant 20 have to dis-
cus pcfson3l affairs or 10 quite crl
explain from personal Correspondence
which is one reason WHY if Is held ipl
be a peculiarly rngeutlenan'y taing
to .publlsh private c7rresDondenr'.
Bui A. Mr Storer b. bis eEira0rdingry /
gsmpalc' prcse-ts various lette:al
Wi tn ly himself Mrs. Storer s1l
nc. shall ct forth briefly the fac's
r. tt- case.
j1ds- President Nrikn'cr. 81
Sto~pf was made minister frs tr B":-
gidu, an1 then io Spain. A51vt The
time of my accession tot he Vi @ d
presidency. ! Wro r. at President Sic
Sinlev's request to Mr. cr Mrs. Sto--
e.. that the president desired me ID
say that 81. Storer was intimately . .
De made an anba ssdor
ose7'y lntsreste5 in ireis-o.
RI. and N-s Storer were greatly {
interested in securing the prrmoti1a 1
Of Archbishop Ireland to Re a card
nal. I had and have. a sincere re I