The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-10

of the affection 1t inspired
 Stood Much From StOrers.
 submitted to conduct from MT and Mrs. Storer to which I would have submitted from no other ambassador and his wife, and did not resent their actions until 1t became evident that they were likely to damage American interests Mrs. Storer insisted to me often that their change and their creed has proved q blow to her hus- bands careef. and that they were suf- fering for conscience sake. I accepted this statement as true. and 1t gave me certain chiyalry feeling that ought to do what could to help him and be as patient as possible for them. Under President McKinley. Mr. Storer was made minister first to Belgium and then to Spain. About the time of my accession to the vice-presidency, wrote at President McKinlcy's re- quest to MT. and Mrs. Storer that the President desired to say that Mir. Sto- Ter was ultimately to be made an ann- bassador. Mir. and Mrs. Storer were greatly interested in securing the pro- motion of Archbishop Ireland to be a cardinal
 T had. and have a sincere respect and admiration for Archbishop Ireland. respect and admiration which I have often publicly expressed. The letter AEoAh ilt to dllQ QNO- ted in Mir. Storer's pamphlet gives with precision my views both upon Arch bishop Ireland and upon tho. possibility l or propriety of my taking In his bee half the steps which the Storers ask ed. and I car add nothing to what these letters themselves fhow.
 Called On Mckinley.
 When they first wrote to me on the subject, I was Governor of New York. Not being President myself. and not having thought out with clearness the exact situation. asked President Mo- Kinley whether he could properly do anything to help Archbishop Ireland. I5e responded that it was not matter Which he could. with propriety, inter- fere, although he expressed himself as having the same high opinion of the iATchbishop that had.
 H ! had R further conversation with the X KPfegident on the subject, either just tafore or just after my election as { vice-I' President, Iii which he stated what | he felt was the proper position; a | position with which I absolutely agreed. Following this conversation, in my letter to Mrs Storer of November | 23. 19O0 quoted by Mir. Stortr in his | pamphlet l stated with absolute clear
 ness my position, and why it was out of the question for the President to try to get any Archbishop made Cardinal, and all the letters quoted by MT. Storer | as having been subsequently, written by me to him or to his wife, take precisely the same position. explained repeatedly that my 1 friendship and admiration for Arch | bishop Ireland (which is like my | friendship for Bishop Laurence of the Episcopal Church. and Cranston of the Methodist Church: like my friendship and admiration fer TRaHy sclergymenkof I 1fF1q har- ans. Congregationalists. Presby terians, and others) would make me pleased to | see any good fortune attend him, or any churchman like him of any creed; | but that I could not interfere for his promotion, or. indeed in any way in the ecclesiastical affairs of any church. This was also the position I took in all private conversations, and took sertion that in any private converse
 tion I took an opposite position from that which I was thus repeatedly eX- pressing in writing is not only an un- truth. but an absurd untruth, for would. of course not say privately to any one the opposite of what I was | repeatedly writing to that same per | sonage.
 Action Was DIShOnOrabIe. MT Storer asserts that he and Mrs. Storer ana various other people. after conversations with mo. put down mem- Oranda as to what they remembered had said. If such action was taken it was, of course, simply dishonorable. No one of them ever showed me or would have Ventured to show me any such memoranda. and it is nonsense to ex- pect to bind me by a memoranda, the existence of which was concealed from me. The Storers were my guests af the time when. as they assert. they made these memoranda of private con versation with me. As a matter Of fact, the statements they alleEc me to have made were not made. save in- solar as what they allege me to have said agreed with N hat, before and af- ter. l wrote them.
 Mrs. Storer wrote me with great freedom. and if sometimes was difh- cult to know quite how to answer her. Both she and Mr. StOrer. continually made attacks upon all sorts of people, especially dignitaries Of her. own church. At one time she wrote me with great bitterness against the pro- testant missionaries who were being sent to the Philippines. at the same time requesting me to champion Arch bishop Irelard because he had been loyal to the United States during the war with Spain. which she asserted was not true as to another Catholic archbishop whom she named. While I was always reluctant to write in a .yay that would hurt the feelings of either of the Storers. on this occasion thought it necessary to write just what my position was. and accordingly replied as follows:
 Letter to Mrs. stOrcr.
 May IT. 1900.
 My dear Mrs. Storer-''Your letter of the fourth. has just come 10 hand also that of the sixth. I am very, very fond of you. and that Is the reason your letters put me in a quandury. You want me to do all kinds of things that cannot possibly do. and that I ought not 10 do: and you say things which do not want to contradict. and vet t makes me feel very hypOcritical if l seem to accuiesce tn theul. H ....
 You must remember that there are many other people who feel about their religion just as you feel about yours. They can no more understand your turning Catholic than you can under stand Catholics turning Protestant. Some ct the best people I have ever met were PrOtestants whom had origi- nully had been Catholics.
 T cannot stop. and 1 cannot urge thc stopping of missionaries going any where they choose. emphatically feel us l have always told you. that T.r ha