The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-04-06
ROOSEVELT WILL
NOT VISIT POPE
PoNTIFF WOULD AVOID REPETl-
TIoN FAIRBANKS INCIDENT.
CONDITIONS ARE DECLINED
Ex.Presdent Urges Catholic as Well
as Protestant Friends In America
Not to Magnify Occurrence.

which it was believed that ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt would have with the
Pope did not take place, owing TO
conditions which the Vatican imposed
and which Mr.. Roosevelt refused to
accept.
At Cairo Mr.. Roosevelt received the
following telegram from Ambassador
Leishman, dated March %:
"Monsignor Kennedy, rector OF the
American Catholic College, in reply
to an inquiry which l caused to De
made, requests the following commu-
nication be transmitted to you: The
Holy Father will be delighted to grant
an audience to Mr.. Roosevelt on
April S and hopes that nothing will
arise to prevent, such as the much
regretted incident which made the re-
ception of Mr.. Fairbanks impossible"
Declines to Accept Conditions.
Replying by cable to Ambassador
Leishman on March rs, Mr.. Roose-
welt said:
at would be a real pleasure to me
to be presented to the Holy Father
for whom l entertain high respect,
both personally and as the head OF a
great church. I fully recognize his
entire right to receive or not receive
whomsoever he chooses, for any rea
son that seems good to him, and II
he does not receive me shall not fol
A moment question the propriety oi
his action. On the other hand, l
N my turn, decline to make any stip
ulations or submit to any conditions
which in any way would limit my
freedom of conduct"
On March 2S Mr.. Roosevelt received
cable message from Ambassador
Aeishman, which concluded by say
ing:
"The audience cannot take place ex
cept on the understanding expressed
IN the former message" To which
Mr.. Roosevelt replied:
"The proposed presentation Is, o
course, impossible.
Mr.. Roosevelt particularly desire
the incident shall be regarded by hi
friends, both Catholic and Protestant
in America as personal, and cabled
statement to The Outlook at NeN
York, in which he said:
Through The Outlook / wish I
make a statement to my fellow Amel
leans regarding what has occurred !
connection with the Vatican. l al
sure that the great majority of m
fellow citizens-Catholics quite a
much as Protessants-will feel ths
| acted in the only way possible fe
an American to act, and because
this very fact most earnestly hor
that the incident will be treated
matter-of-course way, as merel
personal, and above all, as not wa
ranting the slightest exhibition Of ra
cor or bitterness.
Many Friends Are Catholics.
Among my best and closest frient
are many Catholics. The respect al
regard of those of my fellow Anne
leans who are Catholics are as de,
to me as the respect and regard
{. those whs are Protestants."
In speaking Of the incident, Carr
nal Merry del Val, papal secretary
state, is reported to have said:
,. ut is not in any sense questi'
4. Of religion. Mr.. Roosevelt might ha
gone to an Episcopalian. Presbyt
!: rian or any other church except I
Methodist, and delivered an addre
there, and he would have been !
s. ceived by the Pope, even on the sar
day. But he could not be receiv
n when it was suspected that after I
audience he intended to go to
Methodist Church in Rome. which
carrying on a most offensive ca
paign of calumny and detracti
= against the Pontiff."