The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-13
DROPS CRANE
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 (Continued from Page One.t commercially and politically. he felt that our greatest problem lay there and our people were not fully awake to its importance. As l stated In public address in Chicago on September i4. the President advised me to accept all available invitations to public meet ings and dinners and said:
 DO not miss any Of them and when you go to one insist on speaking ana let them have 1t rod hot
 q assumed that the President wished me to discuss realities and not plati- tudes I have not had experience as a public speaker and 1t was and Is a difficult role. but I have done my best to carry out the Presidents wishes.
 q have been much gratined that no criticism had come to me from any of- ncial source until was recalled to Washington last week.
 Approved by Taft.
 With the previous approval of the President, I had arranged to go to China by way of Europe. SO that might have conferences with well in- formed and influential persons of wide ly divergent interests and points of view and had made many valuable appointments. It was then suggested by Mir. Knox that it would be better for me to proceed by way of the ra- cifc.
 Contrary to nay understanding that this matter should be fully discussed with the President in conference with Secretary Knox, the Secretary informed me that 1t would be unnecessary to see the President, and I should proceed by way of Japan. It was then agreed that [ should sail on october with the Minister to Japan.
 q was told that letters would be given me and arrangements he made for seeing important persons In Japan. [ have not since then seen Secretary Knox except on last Sunday, nor have I had any adequate discussion with the Department as to its policies.
 some days before the date set for my departure, I came to Washington and with considerable difficulty made a number of appointments with the First Assistant Secretary of State, not one nr which did he keep nor explain his failure to keep. No papers. not even my official credentials. were ready for me when | left Washington for San Francisco, with just time to eaten the steamer. I have not examined the pa pers from the State Department which reached me in San Francisco after the Secretary's telegram recalling me to Washington.
 AS was nuFTiouiy i0@Fh'0 "o@h ington, a representative of an import ant paper ask ed me about the China Japan agreement and l said that the matter was under consideration AS was well known, but that no decision had been reached and I may have said. all tn ough do not recall 1t, that obvious ly no statement would be prepared tn the absence of Mir. Hoyt.
 q advised him to get thoroughly in- formed upon the whole subject as il would be of the greatest importance that 1t be handled intelligently by the American press If official action were taken.
 ."rhls is the sum of my offending. On mature consideration. 1t is my iudg- ment that my action was in accordance with the spirit at least of the Presi- dents wishes expressed by him to me and that 1t meant a determination to discounterance prejudiced speeches and an unfriendly attitude on the part of officials in dealing with Japan"
 However, I did not seek this post and am absolutely unwilling to remain in 1t without the entire confidence of the President and the cordial support of the government"
 Secretary Knox absolutely refuses to discuss the statement of Mir. Crane regarding the incident as closed, while Assistant Secretary Huntington Will son who is just recovering from a se- were operation was. of course, wholly unacauainted with the latest develop ments in the case. including MT. Cranes reference to his failure to keep appointments made with him.