The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-10
ROOSEVELT, IN LETTER, REFLECTS
 ON BREEDING OF BELLAMY STORER SAYS HIS ACTION WAS UNGENTLENANLY
UNGENTLEMANLY
Declares That He Fired His Former Friend When He Found American Interests Were Injured by HmNeyer President Used His
 Influence in Denoninational Affairs

1 inhabitants of the, tropic islands lies by bringing them to the highest stand ard of American Catholicism. The worst thing that could happen. both for them and the Catholic church. would be for the Catholic church to champion the iniauities that have un- Idouhtediy been committed. not only by lay. but by clerical. would-bd leaders l in the Philippines and elsewhere.
 "One incident. which 1 actually can not put on paper, came to my personal knowledge in connection with a high Catholic ecclesiastic in Cuba. which was of a character SO revolting and bestial that 1t made one feel that the whole hierarchy in the island needed drastic renovation.
 i Now, I very earnestly wish that Archbishop Ireland, and those who are most advanced among our Catholic priests-men like the Paulist Fathers, 1 for instance--should be given free hand in these islands and should be advanced in every way--but you must remember how hampered I am in writ ing, for the fact that do not like to see any one admit for a moment the right of foreign potentate to inter- l fere in American public policy.
 Would Resent Impudence.
 For instance, you speak of the Pope being angry with Archbishop Ireland l for not stopping the war with Spain. | As far as l am concerned, l would re- sent as an impertinence any European, whether Popt, Kaiser, Cxar or prince, daring to be angry with any American because of his action or non-aotion aS regard any question between America | and an outside nation. No pretension ] of this kind should be admitted for one moment. If any man. clerical or lay, | bishop. archbishop, priest or civilian. was in any way guilty of reasonable practices with Spain during our war, 1 he should besshotaor hung. and it Is an outrage on justice that he should l be at large.
 But [ cannot write in a way that | will seem to defend a man for not avoiding war with Spain. for I cannot recognize for a single moment the right of any Rpropean. so mpeh as te think in such a case
 l.>"A you know, l! always treat Catho- lie and Protestant exactly alike, as I \ do Jew or Gentle, as 1 do the man Of native American. German, Irish or any other kind of parentage. Any discrlm- tnation for or against man because of his creed or nativity, strikes nae as an infamy.
 Men like Bishop Keane. like the late Father Casselly, like Father Belford, l the parish priest of my own town of Oyster Bay. and like scores of other priests whom could name, are entitled to receive the same measure of affec- tionatej respect and loyal support have | given to men like Phillips Brooks. like MT. Devine and like so very many oth- CT Protestant clergymen, whom could name. Moreover. my dear Mrs. Storer, l whatever l could do for you and Bel lamy would be done; but I simply do not see how can do anything in this 1 partiealafsmatter t.
 With great respect.
 Very sincerely yours,
 Theodore Roosevelt"
 stOrers nH Knockers.
 As soon as I became president be- 1 gan to receive letters from Mrs. Storer asking for promotion of dr. Storer and i letters from both of them complaint that the work in Madrid was uncongc- nial and complaining also of the char acter and standing of various people in the public service On September 22, l 1901. eight days after President Mc- Kinleys death. Mrs. Storer wrote me, | urging that I should appoint MT. Sto- Ter to the cabinet. and specifying as desirable place the war department; 1 the letter running
 Please give him either the Navy or 1 War-I pray that Bellamy, who so richly deserves 1t. shall have chance for honorable service at home to his . country" When l explained that did not intend to remove any one or make any changes in the cabinet at the time. she wrote me on october r suggesting the embassies at London and Paris as l fit places for her husband and stating | that MT Choate and General Porter were not proper presons to be ambas- l sadors.
 In view of the intense Indignation of Mrs Storer at his being removed from office now. there is a certain element of the comic in their attempt thus to get me to remove neither you or Mfr | ChOate or Mir Porter for the purpose of giving Mir. Storer either cabinet po- sition or the embassy in England or | France. I received many letters of the i general tenor of those mentioned. emu merating their hardships and services | and enemies.
 As MT. Storer in his pamphlet quotes a letter of November 24 from me. marked personal, in which I told his wife that he should be made special ambassador at the marriage of the l king of Spain. alleging that this was a l fresh mark of my approval of his course l may mention that the letter | containing this statement on my part was in answer to one from Mrs. Storer ! in which she begged for the appoint ment of her husband. her letter run ming in part as follows
 i Please. please send us to Madrid as 1 special envoys to the wedding IL would be very appropriate, and would ] love It."
 | There remains for mo to discuss but one matter and that is MT. gtorer's as- sertion in his pamphlet that although in my letters l persistently refused to as kthe pope to promote Archbishop ] Ireland to be a cardinal. l nevertheless l gave him a verbal message comis- | soning him to make the request, on l behalf, of the Pope
 Mir Storer also asserts that President 1 Mckinley took a similar course. com missioning a gentleman who ..e named, ! to ask the appointment of Archbishop Ireland as cardinal, 'as a personal fa- | vor to him." the president, and as "an honor to the country"
 This is the direct contrary of what l President Mckinley told me was his attitude in the matter and MT Cortel- You, who was then his private secre- tary. writes me as follows:
 "Ofice of the Postmaster General.
 Washington, Dec. 1. 1906.
 My dear Mir. President In the pamphlet. Letter of Bellamy Storer 10 the President and to the members of his cabinet, November. 1906 are several