The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-04

is responsible, an audience could not
occur except in the understanding ex-
pressed in the former message
After this no further communication
reached me from Mr.. Roosevelt
1t further appears that 1t was John
Callan O'Loughlin who was assistant
secretary of state in 1900 land great
personal friend of Mr.. Roosevelt, who
yesterday attempted to intereede with
Cardinal Merry Del Val. The following
semi official versions of what trans
pired at that interview have been fur
nished to the Associated Press by a vat
! lean authority:
Versions of situation
Cardinal Merry Del Val: Can you
guarantee that Mr.. Roosevelt will not
visit the Methodists while here?
Mr.. O'Loughlin replied:
II cannot. Indeed, I believe that Mr..
Roosevelt is just the man to go there.
He Will do as he pleases."
at is indefensible," said the papal
secretary, for any person to be asked
to be received by great parsonage
whose feelings he would be unwilling
to respect.
I'm the course of further conversa-
tioA the cardinal declared that no court
in Europe granted unrestricted audi
ences. Mr. Roosevelt himself" said
the cardinal. when he was President,
declined to receive persons uncondition-
ally at the White House"
Without giving the name of the per-
son, the cardinal recalled case where
President Roosevelt, having been err
roneously informed that a certain per-
son was visiting him by the auth GRITTY
of the vatican, Immediately sent cab
met officer to the apostolic delegate at
Washington to inform the delegate that
he could not receive this parsonage, but
he meant no discourtesy to the Pope by
his refusal. The Pontiff, when in
formed of this replied:
Il esteem President Roosevelt more
than ever"
Returning to the present incident,
Cardinal Merry del Val remarked:
ct is not in any sense a question of
religion. Mr.. Roosevelt might have
gone to an Episcopalian, Presbyterian
or any other church, except the Meth :
odist, and delivered an address there,
and he would have been received by
the Pope even on the same day. But
he could not be received when 1t was
suspected that after the audience he in
tended to go to the Methodist church
in Rome, which is carrying on a most
offensive campaign of calumnity and
detra ction against the Pontiff.'
The papal secretary even recognized
Mr. Roosevelt's right to claim the priv
ilege of visiting the Methodists the day
after the audience on condition that he,
Merry Del Val, receive private assur-
ances that he would not actually do so.
The vatican emphasizes the state
ment that 1t did not receive from the
American embassy any notification of
Mr.. Roosevelts Anal message that an
audience had become impossible.
After being appraised of the contents
of the vatican's statement, 1t was eX-
planned on Mr.. Roosevelt's behalf, that
| his final message had not been COM
municated to the vatican because Mon
signor Kennedy's second telegram was
all of the matter so far as he was con-
cerned, but that he wished to keep the
door open, not for his own sake, but for
the sake of the Catholic church in
America
When Mr. OLoughlin came to Rome
it was the distinct understanding that
he did not do SO In Mr.. Roosevelt's be-
half. but in behalf of his clergionists In
America, and that he did not carry any
authorization to subtract from or ado
word TO Mr.. Rooseyelts position as
defined by his telegram for Monsignor
Kennedy.
Macarthur Speaks of Roosevelt
New York April 3-"I nominate Theo-
dore Roosevelt for the high Office OF am
ba ssa6or extraordinary to all the courts
of the world, in the interests of universal
and perpetual peace said the Rev. Dr'
| Robert Stuart Macarthur today In the
course of an address to his current event
class at the Calvary Baptist church.
Il believe" he said in conclusion. that
7 have today spoken words which Will
| ~ A ox,ft 70 Pacific
which will echo beyond the seas
DR.. Macarthur chose for his subject
the question, what Shall We Do With
| Theodore Roosevelt" In answering MS
own Inquiry he said
perhaps some people would prefer to
put the question in this form: What 81
he do with us?' He is a unique man. His
powers are manifold and symmetrical to a
remarkable degree He is a practical poll
tician an experienced statesman, rec
oonized literateur a mighty hunter. a
great preacher and half score of other
remarkable things. What shall We dc
with such a man? Where can his talent
be best employed for the honor of the
country and the good of mankind?
'There can be no more exalted mission
than the one / have named. Only those
| familiar with the facts know how many
international disputes have already been
settled by arbitration. Here We have a
noble sphere for the varied talents, re-
| markable skill and wide experience oil
! Colonel Roosevelt. No one will ever &C
cuse him of being mollycoddle. He Is
| as brave morally as he is physically, ano
has The ear of the civilized world In places
| high ard low as no man ever had
| 'Tf Theodore Roosevelt can be a domi
nan5 factor in the era of universal anc
perpetual peace his name will be honored
ahnva thar of all warriors on all battle.
fields through all the centuries"
A National AfrOnt
New York, April 3-Bshop David r
Greer OF the Episcopal diocese of New
York, commenting tonight on Colone
Roosevelts experience with the Vatican
| said that in his opinion the American peo'
| pie would regard it as a national af'
front. And they will continue to regard
II In this light. he added, no matter how
| much Colonel Roosevelt or others attempt
to deprecate the incident. The Vatican's
attitude he characterized as Ill advised.
A copy of the Roosevelt correspondence
was delivered here tonight to Archbishop
Farley's secretary, but no comment was
forthcoming. at would be manifestly i'm
proper" said the secretary, Ito disturb
| the archbishop at this hour with a mat
ter OF this nature
1.-THE Outlook is authorized to say Mr.
Roosevelt had not directly or indirectl,
communicated with the Methodists OF
anyone else, and had not made any agree
ment to speak or to receive anybody. HI
entered Rome with no arrangements O.
any kind save the audience with the King
50 that the Vatican is endeavoring to i'm
pose conditions upon him, before ths
thought of even taking steps for any othel
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