Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-23
ATTACK ON COLONEL AGAIN
Mrs. Bellamy storer Makes Public
Letters Of Archbishop Ireland,
SEEKS TO PROVE FORMER CHARGES


SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept. 22-The Re-
publican tomorrow will print a letter from
Mrs. Bellamy Storer. written in France,
September 6, reviving the controversy be-
tween the Storers and Mr. Roosevelt con-
corning the former presidents alleged
authorization OF the former ambassador to
Austria Hungary to visit Pope Plus X and
ask him as a personal favor to the presi-
dent of the United States to make Arch
bishop ireland Of st. Paul a cardinal.
Letters written by the archbishop in 1909
and 1904, hitherto unpublished. are quoted
by Mrs. Storer to show that at repeated
intervals in the communications between
the archbishop and the president, Mr..
Roosevelt acknowledged that he had COM
missioned Mr.. Storer to act as his personal
envoy at the vatican in behalf of the
archbishop.
Mr.. Roosevelt has hitherto publicly
denied that Mr.. storer was ever authorized
to represent him in this manner. and the
Ireland letters. now published by Mrs.
storer, have the effect of making much
sharper the issue OF veraclty between the
Storers and the ex-president.
Two Letters Made Public.
Mrs. Storer's letter TO the Republican also
seeks to prove on the testimony Of Arch
bishop Ireland that President Roosevelt
promised to make Mr.. Storer Ua'ted States
ambassador either at Paris or London, and
there is included still another letter al
legged to have been written by Mr.. Roose-
welt to Mr.. storer, just after the presi-
Dental election in 1896, in which Mr.. Roose-
welt asked Mr.. Storer to see presldent-elect
Mckinley and urge him to, appoint Mr..
Roosevelt assistant secretary Of the navy.
This last letter seems to refute a recent
assertion that Mr.. Roosevelt never sought
a public office, except when he sought a
presidential nomination in 1904
The first letter by Archbishop ireland
quoted by Mrs. Storer written to Mr..
Storer, November 8, 1901, is in part as fol-
lows:
Il have had two most pleasant meet
ing with the president at the White House.
He is decidedly your friend and resolved
to give you the best there is. Even said
he, II Berlin comes first and Bellamy
wished 1t for a little WHILE pending
Choates retention of London, would give
it to him and change him shortly after
wards to London. Let him trust me-"
Next Letter to Mrs. stOrer.
The next ireland letter, dated October q.
1903, was written to Mrs. Storer in part az
follows: '.ve
Il was in Washington last week and, of
course, saw the president. spoke to him
of Paris and removed from his mind all
suspicion that a Catholic would be there
persona non grata as ambassador. He
promised me that the next ambassador to
Paris would be Mr.. Storer and Furthermore
expressed the belief that General Porter
would soon retire. '''1
1.-THE president also told me that he had
commissioned Mr.. Storerl to speak for him
viva voce at the Vatican; he seemed rather
proud of having done so.
On February 2, 1904, the archbishop writes
to Mr.. Storer: p"~'S
your two letters We're read and burnt.
However, you need have no anxiety about
the whole affair which was the chief sub
ject matter of those letters. The president
had no occasion to feel ruffled in the
least but you know his impulsiveness
When / saw him he, OF his own accord,
told me of his writing to you and asked
ME how publicity was given to the matter.
/ said the scripps-McRae agency had
merely made guess las to Mr.. Storers
coming to Romeo that the few unfavorable
comments that followed amounted TO really
nothing He Gained down completely, re-
marked that he had every confidence in
you and hoped that the outcome of your
mission would be what all desired"