The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-09-22
ROOSEVELT
ACCUSED AS
UNTRUTHFUL

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TENDER 22.-That Theodore Roosevelt
while President, instructed Bellamy
Storer, whom he had appointed Am.
bassador to Austria, to ask the Pope to
elevate Archbishop Ireland to the rank
of cardinal, in spite of Roosevelts re-
peated denials to the contrary, is the
claim made by the Springfield Repub-
lican, which has revived the old con-
troversy by the publication yesterday
of some new evidence.
The Republican reprints a review of
the case written by Mrs. Bellamy
Storer, dated September 6, in which
she reiterates the charge of unfair
treatment on the part Of Roosevelt in
recalling Storer for doing what he had
been specifically instructed to do. She
claims that Roosevelt sent her hus-
band to Vienna that he might inter-
view the Pope on Archbishop lreland's
behalf as the personal representative
of the President.
Storer was recalled in disgrace in
1906, when complaints were made that
he was visiting the Pope and claiming
to be President Roosevelts 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 alb
surd 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 re-
ferences are made to interviews be-
tween the writer and the President and
the President told the writer that he
had commissioned Ambassador Storer
to act as an envoy to the Pope on the
writer's Qreland's) behalf.
Colonel Roosevelt, during his presi-
dency and since has always denied
having takeu any part in attempting
to secure promotion for Archbishop
Ireland, STANG in interviews and off
cial letters that whatever impression
the Storers had received that he want
ed anything done by the ambassador
for the archbishop must have come
from statements of private friendship
the President had for the church dig.
nitary.
In 1906 President Roosevelt issued a
pamphlet denying Storer's CHARGES
This pamphlet contained the following
paragraphs:
"The assertion that in any private
conversation l took an opposite posi-
ton from that which | was repeatedly
expressing in writing is not only an
untruth, but an absurd untruth.
"Mr. Storer asserts that he and Mrs
Storer and various other people, after
conversations with me, put down me
moranda as to what they remembered
| had said If such action was taken
it was, of course, simply dishonor
able"
Mr. 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. Ccctel
you, who was then his private secre-
tary, writes me as follows:
90 This statement of Mr
Storor distorts what was evidently an
expression Of deep personal regard
and respect for an individual into
what is in substance a request for his
advancement as a member OF an &c
clesiastical organization. The late
President never made such request
"As for Mr.. Storer's assertion that
| authorized him to make such state
meat as he says he was authorized tc
make to the Pope, it is untrue ] gave
him no such authorization.
81 never received from him any let
ter giving any such account of MS visit
to the Vatican"