The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-10

why it was ont 0f the question for th'
president to try to get any archbishop
made a cardinal
This was also the position tool
| in all private conversations and thu
Iassertion that |, in any private con
! versation took an opposite view, is
not only an untrutn, but an absurd
Iuntruth
Calls Action Dshonorable,
MIR Storer asserts that he and
Mrs. Storer and various other people
after conversations with me, put
down memoranda as to what they re.
membered | had said. If such action
was taken, il was Of course simply
dishonorable
"The Storers were my guests at the
time when as they assert they made
| these memoranda Of private couyersa-
| lion with me As matter OF fact, the
statements they allegc me 10 have
made were not made. save insofar as
what they allcgo me to have said
agreed with what before and after
"Iole 20 theh
President hooseEeI' lheh oesa'is tae
correspondence WIN Mrs, 0toIeI .1
sardlng her attempts to obtain bis I'M
Huence for Archbishop Ireland In
WV 'e'te1' dateu Alas ~ i'"V' loo'1
ven lays
You must remember how hamper
ed | am in writing, from the fact that
| do not like 10 see any one admit
for a moment the right Of foreign
potentate 70 Interfere In American
public policy. For Instance you speak
of the Pope being angry with Arch
bishop ireland for not stopping tho
war with Spain As far as | am con
cerned, | wo9ld resent as an empert
nence any European whether Pope
Kaiser Car OF Prince daring to BIZ
angry with any American because oil
his action or nonaction as regards
any question between America and
out ide nations
Wanted Cabinet or Embassy Job.
Mr. Roosevelt then says that eight
DAYS after MeKjnIey's death Mrs
storer wrote asking him to appoint
her husband to the cabinet When
Mr.. Roosevelt explained that he did
not intend to make any changes a
that time. he says she wrote me sua-
costing the embas les at London and
Paris as fit places for her husband
and stating that Mr. Choate and Gen
eral Porter were not proper persons
to be ambassadors.
In view Of the intense indignation
9f MIR and Mrs. Storer at his being
removed from office now. there is a
certain element of the comic in their
attcmpt thus to get me to remove
either you or Mr. Choate or Mr.. Por.
ter for the purpose of giving Mr.
stUrer a new position. I received
many let crs Of the same general
cnor. enumerating their hardships |
and services and enemies.
CAS- Mr. storer in his pamphlet |
m0tes a letter of November "a from |
me-, marked personal. in which wrote
his wife that he should be made a |
special ambassador AZ the marriage |
3f the King of Spain. alleging tnai
His was fresh mark of nv approval |
IF his conduci. J may mention that
Inc letter containing this statement
ln nm, part was in answer 10 one
rom Mrs. Siorcr in which She bcggo4 /
or Tho appointment of her husband. /
Ter letter running In par. as follows:
please Send Us to Madrid"
PLEASE send ms tq Madrid a. spec
al cnvrvs TO the wedding n would
be- very appropriate and 7 would lovot
t' n IS hard 10 and the exact word
n which TO crlticiso Mr. Storer's effort
20 twist the meaning of nav granting
such a ree-est. couched in such
ityle.
There remains for me TO discuss
lut one matter and that is Mr.. Stor-
'r'G assertion i'm his pamphlet that al
houeh 10 my letters ! pcrsistently re-
used 20 ask the Pope TO promote
archbishop lrolara,to Dee a cardinal I