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SHOWS UP TEDDY
AN ISSUE OF VERACITY RAISED
BE MRS. b. STORER.
She Challenges Roosevelt's Truthful
ness in the Archbishop Ireland

ness in the Archbishop Ireland
Controversy.
The resignation Of Bellamy Storer,
as ambassador to Austria-Hungary
was transmitted to Washington on
March Z, 1906, and was accepted.
His resignation was requested ny the
State Department, and it later de-
veloped that serious difficulty had
arisen between President Roosevelt
and the ambassador, primarily be-
cause the latter had failed to answer
a communication from the President.
The communication enclosed a let
ter to Mrs. Storer, calling upon her
to give a written promise not to in
terfere in Vatican politics.
The point at issue was that Mrs.
Storer had used the official position
of her husband to forward the ap-
pointment of Archbishop Ireland to
the cardinalate. The Storers respond
ed to the action of the State Depart
ment by giving out for publication
letters from Col. Roosevelt when he
was Governor of New York, in which
he expressed high appreciation Of
Archbishop Ireland. Mrs. Storer in
explaining this letter said it had been
written to her so she might show it
to the Papal secretary in order to
convince the Vatican of the friendly
feelings of Americans toward Arch
bishop Ireland's policy.
Following the sending of a letter
by Mr.. Storer to President Roose-
welt, members of the cabinet and of
the Senate committee on foreign re-
lations, the President gave out the
correspondent between him and Am
bassador and Mrs. Storer in which
he said that Mr.. Storer's refusal to
answer his letters and the publica-
ton Of various private letters justi-
that he (the President), had stated
with absolute clearness his position,
and the reason it was out of the
question for him, as President, to
try to get any archbishop made a
cardinal.
Now, after four years of silence,
Mrs. Bellany Storer comes back at
Roosevelt, by writing a letter which
was published Thursday in the
Springfield Republican. This letter
was written from France on Septem-
Der s, and in it Mrs. Storer reviews
the controversy Of her husband and
herself with Roosevelt, concerning
the former Presidents alleged au-
thorization OF the former ambassa-
dor to Austria-Hungary to visit Pope
Plus x, and ask him as a personal
favor to the President of the United
States to make Archbishop Ireland of
st. Paul, a cardinal.
Letters written by the archbish-
op in 1908 and 1904 hitherto un-
published are quoted by Mrs. Storer
to show that at repeated interviews
in the White House between the
archbishop and the President Col.
Roosevelt acknowledged that he had
commanded Mr. Storer to act as his
personal envoy at the Vitican in be-
half Of the archbishop. Col. Roose-
welt has hitherto publicly denied that
MI. Storer was ever authorized to
ranrncnnf him IN fhic o~l
the Ireland letters now published by
Mrs. Storer have the effect of making
much sharper the issue of veracity
between the Storers and the EXPIRES.
ident.
Mrs. Storer's letters to The Re-
publican also seeks to prove on the
testimony Of Archbishop Ireland that
President Roosevelt promised to
make Mr.. Storer United States am
bassador, either at Paris or London,
and there is included still another
letter alleged to have been written
by Col. Roosevelt to Mr.. Storer Just
after the Presidential election in
1896, in which Mr.. Roosevelt
asked Mr.. Storer to seeestmfe,t
asked Ambassador Storer, to see
President-elect Mckinley and urge
him to appoint Col. Roosevelt as
Secretary Of the Navy. This last
letter seems to refute a recent as
sertion that Col. Roosevelt never
sought a public Office except when
he sought a Presidential nomination