Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-12-10
STORER'S CONDUCT
UNGENTLEMANLY
At the Least Says
President in
Letter.
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DENIES CHARGES MADE
And States That Facts Were
Suppressed. Admires
Archbishop Ireland.

Washington D. c., Dec 10--Presi-
dent Roosevelt last night made public
long letter addressed to Secretary
Root, giving the correspondence be
tween the President and former Am
bassador BeIlamy StOrer at Vienna
and Mrs. Storer, in which he says that
Storer's response to his letter and
the publication of various private let.
ters justified him in the ambassadors
removal.
Storer Gave Out Private Letters
and Was UngentIemanly.
That Storer's publication of private
correspondence was peculiarly ungen-
tlemanly and that he. the President,
had stated with absolute clearness his
position, the reason why it was out
Of the question for him as President
to try TO get any archbishop made a
cardinal. though expressing admira,
ton Of Archbishop Ireland as well as
the leaders of other denominations.
Believes His Cabinet Should Know
Facts.
He says he thinks it well that the
members of his cabinet should know
the certain facts, (which he, Storer.
either suppresses or misstates."
Storer Joins "Ananias Club" He Says
Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 10.--Bellamy
Storer, formerly ambassador to Aus
tria-Hungary, today replied briefly to
the statements contained in President
Roosevelt's letter to Secretary OF
State Root, which was given out lass
night insisting on the position he had
hitherto taken and reiterating the
statements made by him in a state
ment to the members of the foreign
affairs committee Of Congress, made
public last week. Mr.. Storer today
said: 81 seem to be elected member
of the 'Ananias Club like others who
come into dispute with President
Roosevelt. ! am now to be classed
with Senators Chandler. Tillman and
Bailey, and with other men who have
questioned some actions of the Presi-
dent.
Questioned President to Protect Mrs.
Storer.
Like every other American gentle
man who has wife to protect, |
undertook to defend her name from
insinuatioHs and charges of false
hoods"
Storer then reiterated much that
appeared in his first statement, which
he claimed was intended for private
circulation and added that he has four
letters bearing on the controversy as
to the promotion of Archbishop, Ire
land, all of which he asserts tend to
bear out his contention that
81 obeyed the explicit instructions
of Roosevelt in acting as | did with
regard to the promotion"
Archbishop Ireland Brought Into Con-
troversy.
Continuing Mr.. Storer said:
Archbishop Ireland told me also
that the President in several conver-
sations with him took credit for the
action he now repudiates.
Promotion of Archbishop Caused
Whole Trouble
"The truth of the whole matter
which led TO my removal was the ac-
ton taken by Mrs. Storer and myself
with regard to the promotion Of Arch
bishop Ireland Of St. Paul to cardin-
aate. In my letter to the President
and cabinet I cited letters written by
Mr. Roosevelt to me speaking in the
highest terms of Monsignor Ireland
and expressing a personal wish that
the country might profit by his pro
motion to a cardinalate. On Decem-
Der ., 1908, I had an audience with
Pope Plus X at which | transmitted
a verbal note, the basis of which had
been given me by President Roose-
welt. I was particularly careful in
its preparation and after transcribing
it in English ! translated it into
French and conveyed it to the Pope"
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