Arizona republican., 1910-09-23
THE REVIVED sToRER INCIDENT
listening,

The terrible woman, listening,
 watching
 Under a mask. preparing a blow
 In the fold of her be."-Aeschylus in The Vision or Cassandra."
 Could the great tragic poet have been inspired to the foregoing lines by the foreknowledge that some twenty-four centuries later, Dear Maria" would be preparing the blow; she has just delivered. For four long years she seems to have been industriously preparing the re- signations of herself and her hus- band. Mir Bellamy Storer, from the .'Ananias Club" of which we believe they were the charter members.
 Disregarding the question of yer acity which had been raised between the Storers and former President Roosevelt and which had been all but forgotten, Dear Marie. if she were not a woman, is to be blamed for talking too much of her busi ness at the Vatican-of the efforts she and her husband were making for the securing of another red hat for that were a matter in which an American president and an Ameri- can ambassador could not be Os tentatiously engaged without raising an American storm.
 The statement by Mrs. Storer that precipitated the controversy was that her husband at the suggestion of President Roosevelt. was trying to persuade the pope to make Arch bishop Ireland a cardinal
 With characteristic promptness and plainness which side-tracked any American criticism of an official meddling in ecclesiastical affairs, MT. Roosevelt elected Mrs. Storer to the "Ananias club" and admitted her less offending husband for the sake of company. It is scripturally or dered that those whom God hath joined together shall not be put asunder. It is needless to ob- serve that MT. Storer who was am- bassador to Austria Hungary and was looking higher. quit the diplo- matic service. He had convincingly demonstrated that he was not a diplomat.
 Mrs. Storer at once delighted the news agencies with statements and correspondence between her and Mir Roosevelt who addressed her as Dear Maria" a familiarity warran- ted by connection through the Longworth family. Mrs. Storer is a cousin of Hon. Nicholas Longworth, MT. Roosevelt's son-in-law.
 But all that correspondence seemed to have nothing to do with the American cardinaIate and the pres ident's simple though angry denial left the Storers little ground to stand on Also it was considered far less probable that so good an American and so astute man as Mir Roose- welt would be engaged in this affair Of the church, than that a woman with a leaning toward ecclesiastical intrigue should be engaged in it and should involve the president to whom she was closely related by family and official ties.
 The American nation indulged in one good hearty laugh at the joke and then proceeded to the next order of business.
 Meanwhile the terrible woman" in silence and under her robe has been preparing the blow in the shape of letters from Archbishop Ireland, which might have created some stir in the world if they had been given publicity four years ago but which can hardly create more than ripple of interest at this late date. These letters, if genuine. were in the pos session of Mrs. Storer before the controversy was begun. Why they should have been withheld for four long years is a question second in interest only to another one-why they should be given publicity at this time?