Arizona republican., 1910-09-22
'OLD ISSUE IF vERAC|TY Mrs. Be||amy stoPer Digs Up Ancient Letters ARCHBISHOP IRELAND Made a Witness In Contro-
 versy Between Former
 President Roosevelt and
 the Storers Regarding
 the Vatican Affair.
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND

Springfield Mass, Sept 21.- The l Republican will tomorrow print a let | ter from Mrs. Bellamy Storer, writ ten in France, September 6. review 1 ing the former presidents alleged au- | thorization of the former ambassador to Austria Hungary to visit the pope and ask as a personal favor to the president of the United to make Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul car dinal
 Letters written by the archbishop | in 1903 and 1904 hitherto unpublished are quoted by Mrs. Storer to show | that at repeated interviews in the | White House between the archbishop and the president, Mir Roosevelt ac- ] knowledged that he had commissioned 1 Ambassador Storer to act as a per | sonal envoy at the vatican in, behalf | of Archbishop. Ireland whose letters now published by Mrs Storer will have the effect of making a much sharper issue of veracity between the l Storers and the ex-president.
 Mrs. Storers letter to the Repub- lican also seeks to prove on the tes- tirnony of Archbishop Ireland that l Mir Roosevelt promised to make MT. | Storer ambassador either at Paris or London; and there is included an other letter alleged to have been written by Mir. , Roosevelt to Mir. Storer just after the presidential election in 1896 in which MT. Roose- welt asked MT. Storer to see Presi- dent elect Mckinley and urge him to | appoint Mir. Roosevelt assistant sec retary of the navy.
 This latter letter seems to confute | a recent assertion that Mir. Roosevelt never sought a public office except in 1904 when he sought the presidency.
 The first letter by Archbishop Ire land quoted by Mrs. Storer. and which was written to Mrs. Storer, November 3. 1901, is in part as follows: T have had two most pleasant meetings with the president at the White House He is decidedly your friend and resolved to give you the best there is even. said he. If BerlOn comes first, and Bellamy wished il for a little while. pending Choate's retention at London, I would give il to him and change him shortly after ward to London. Let him trust | me"
 The next Ireland letter. dated Octo- Der 23, 1903, was written to Mrs Storer and in part is as follows: q was in Washington last week and, oi course, saw the president. l spoke with him of Paris and removed from his mind all suspicion that a Catholic would be there persona non grata as ambassador. He promised me thai the next ambassador to Paris would be MT. Storer
 In March, 1904, Archbishop Ireland wrote a letter in which he quoted tho exact words of the president as tC Storer going to Rome as follows; "Th' president said to me: MT. Storer has told you what I said to him about you archbishop
 "'Wen replied, I do not remem- Der about his going to Rome
 "Well, he said. I told him l would not write a letter to the pope asking for honors for you, but l said he coulc go to Rome and say-viva vOce-to the pope, how much I wish you to be 6 cardinal and how grateful I personally would be to him for giving you thai honor I am most clear in my memory as to every word.
 q will write about American poli- ties to Bellamy. With most affection ate regard to him and your self,
 T am sincerely.
 JOHN IRELAND"
 Mir Roosevelts letter to Storer dated November 17, 1896. concerning the desired appointment as assistan secretary of the navy, follows:
 Dear Bellamy-I have been think ing over that business, now will vol let me write perfectly frankly. If yor care to say anything for me, old fel- low, I think you could say it gooc deal better if were away. So, unles: you think to the contrary, or unless there is some reason for a change, believe that it would be best for me t( come and dine with you, and then vol , can see Mckinley by yourself, if yoI care to do so at all, which I earnestly hope you will.
 Give my best love to Mrs. Storer.'
 "Faithfully yours,
 l THEODORE ROOSEVELT. '. <
 "P. S.-I hope you won't think thi! impertinent I should rather have vol l speak in my behalf than anyone in thu United states and I think you could do the most good but l would rathe . not go there with you, for somehow l 2 does not seem to me that it would b' good thing for you to speak for m before me.-T. R."