The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-09-23
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To HARASS
COLONEL
Bellamy Storer Incident Crops
Up With Some New Light on
the Subject.
lRELAND's LETTER QUOTED
Correspondence from Archbishop
Says Roosevelt Did Give
StOrer His Orders.

SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts, Sep
TENDER 22.--That Theodore Roosevelt,
while President, instructed Bellamy
storer whom he had appointed Ambas-
sador to Austria, to ask the Pope to
elevate Archbishop Ireland to the rank
of cardinal, in spite OF Roosevelt's re-
peated denials to the contrary, is the
claim made by the Springfield Repuh-
lican, which has revived the old con-
roversy by the publication yesterday
of some new evidence.
The Republican reprints review Of
the case written by Mrs, Bellamy
storer, dated September 6, in which she
reiterates the charge of unfair treat
ment on the part Of Roosevelt in re-
calling Storer for doing what he had
been specifically instructed to do. She
claims that Roosevelt sent her husband
to Vienna that he might Interview the
Pope on Archbishop Ireland's BEHALF us
the personal representative of the Pres
dent.
Storer was recalled in disgrace in
1906, when complaints were made that
he was visiting the Pope and claiming
to be President Roosevelt agent, the
President at that time denying that
he had ever instructed the ambassador
to speak for him. In an official com
munication to the congress, Roosevelt
denounced as not only liars, but absurd
liars, both Ambassador Storer and his
wife.
The new light thrown on the old row
by the Republican consists of num-
Der of extracts from the letters Of
Archbishop ireland, written during 1903
and 1904, in which frequent references
are made to interviews between the
writer and the President and in which
the direct claim is made that the Presi-
dent told the writer that he had com
missioned Ambassador Storer to act as
an envoy to the Pope ON the writer's
(Ireland 's) behalf.
Colonel Roosevelt, during his presi-
dency and since has always denied hay
ing taken any part in attempting to
secure promotion for Archbishop Ire
land, stating in interviews and official
letters that whatever impression the
Storers had received that he wanted
anything done by the ambassador for
the archbishop must have come from
statements of private friendship the
PRESIDENT had for the church dignitary.
The active hostilities between the
former President and the Storers began
In December, 1906, when the recalled
ambassador issued letter charging the
President with unfairness and with
putting a false light on the circum-
stances surrounding his recall. In
reply, President Roosevelt issued a
pamphlet denying Storer's charges.
This pamphlet contained the following
paragraphs:
The assertion that in any Brivate
conversation ] took an opposite position
from that which / was repeatedly ex-
pressing in writing is not only an I'M
truth, but an absurd untruth.
- Mr.. Storer asserts that he and Mra
Storer and various other people, after
conversations with me, put down memo
randa as to what they remembered 7
had said. If such action was taken.
it was, of course, simply dishonorable. y
MI Storer asserts that President
Mckinley commissioned a gentleman to
ask (of the Pope) the appointment Of
Archbishop Ireland as cardinal. This
IS the direct contrary of what President
Mckinley told me was his attitude in
the matter, and Mr.. Cortelyou, who was
then his private secretary, writes me
as follows:
This statement of Mr..
Storer distorts. what was evidently an
expression of deep personal regard and
respect for an individual into what is
in substance n request for his advance.
ment as member of an ecclesiastical
organization. The late President never
made such request
AS for Mr.. Storer's assertion that
authorized him to make such state.
ment as he says he was authorized to
make to the Pope, it is untrue. l gave
him no such authorization.
81 never received from him any let
ter giving any such account of his visit
to the Vatican"
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