Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-12-08
RELLAMY STORER AIRS HIS
TROUBLES WITH ROOSEVELT
Letter to President Made Public, in Which He Declares
Roosevelt Personally Requested That He Inercede
With Pope for Archbishop Ireland-=-Storer Indig=
nanty Declares That President Insulted His Wife

CHICAGO, Dec. S.-The Chicago
tribune in its Washington dispatches
today says an extraordinary letter has
been addressed by Bellamy Storer te
PRESIDENT Roosevelt and the members
of his cabinet in regard to his dis
missal from the post Of ambassador of
the United States to Austro- Hungary.
Storer was dismissed because of his
wife's supposed interference in affairs
81 the Roman Catholic church, and Of
her alleged misuse of letter from the
president 1t was also charged that
Mrs. Storer had meddled with French
politics by taking part in an anti
republican intrigue to promote Major
Victor vonaparte, a member of the
orleans family.
Roosevelt and Ireland.
Both these charges Mr.. Storer
denies. and on the other hand, declares
the presidents interest in the selec-
ton Of Archbishop Ireland as a car
dinal was not due to Storer or to
Storer's wife. but to the president
alone.
Storer says his removal, in so sum-
mary q manner. suddenly dismissing
him from an once that he had been
given reason to believe he had filled
to the satisfaction Of his own govern
ment. and accompanied by no public
explanation, exposed him to suspicious
and injurious conjectures such AZ
most naturally arise when man. in
public ONCE is abruptly dismissed BY
hia government by what Is obviously
intended to be q discredit.
my Dear Maria" Wrote Roosevelt.
The corespcy' dence shows the family
relations Of the president and Storers
from the time Roosevelt was the gov
ernor Of New York just after the
Spanish American war. Some Of
'Roosevelt's letters to Storer were ad-
dressed, MY Dear Bellamy." and to
his wife. MY Dear Maria" and Mrs.
sstorer addressed the president as
Dear Theodore. fisTJ
Mr.. Storer asserts that Roosevelt.
himself, while governor Of New York.
urged the Storers to use ts-... Z, Il -
ence with the vatican for Ireland's 8
promotion, believing the prelate's well
known patriotism would aid in solv-
ing the problems connected with the
Catholic church in the Philippines.
Severely Rsbukss Mrs. storsr.
One letter OF the presidents to Mrs.
storer, dated December II, 1905, after
the efforts Of the Storers in behalf of
Ireland had attracted attention, Is a
severe rebuke for her actions in
ecclesiastical affairs in which the
president demands Mrs. Storer's writ
ten promise to cease her intrigues, III
beilamy is to continue in, the service"
Mr.. storer writes, II cannot trust
myself to express fully the feeling OF
indignation with which read the let
Ter to Mrs. Storer. Though I was in
the public service, I felt and still ieel
mat had lost none of the rights
which q man has to Judge OF the
propriety OF letters addressed to his
wife and to resent an improper COM
munication.
1 did not then know what I have
since learned that the letter was moi
'even written for my wife's eyes ol
mine alone, but had been shown te
others before It was ssnt md tAal
used to make a case against a lady. 9
uust in friend, who could not be heard
IN her own defense.
My wife was deliberately accused