The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-04-08
ROOSEVELT Will.
NOT VISIT POPE
PONTIFF WOULD AVOID REPETl.
TIoN FAIRBANKS INCIDENT.
CONDITIONS ARE DECLINED
Ex-President Urges Catholic as Well
as Protestant Friends In America
Not to Magnify Occurrence.

ROME, April 6.-The determination
OF Mr.. Roosevelt to forego an audi
ence with Pope Plus rather than sub
scribe to the conditions imposed by
the Vatican has created a sensation.
This unfortunate and unexpected in
cident overshadows every other fea-
ture of the distinguished Americans
visit to the Eternal City.
Mr.. Roosevelt sought an audience
with the Pontiff through American
Ambassador Leishman, and received q
reply that the Holy Father would be
delighted to receive him, but the ans
wer was coupled with an expression
of the hope that the audience would
not be prevented by such regretta-
BILE incident as made an audience for
! former Vice-President Fairbanks inn
possible.
Mr.. Roosevelt, in turn, stated that
! he could not accept any stipulation
| limiting his freedom of conduct. To
| the latter message the Vatican made
| answer that the audience could not
| take place excepting on the under
/ standing first stated. On March 29
Mr.. Roosevelt sent to Ambassador
Leishman the following cablegram:
proposed presentation is. OF course,
impossible"
Emperor May Refuse Audience.
Not only is all Italy wrought up
ovA the failure of the Pope to receive
Colonel Roosevelt in audience, but the
matter threatens to become world
wide in it's importance.
Ii is rumored that Emperor Francis
Josnph of Austria will probably refuse
W. receive Mr.. Roosevelt because of
the latter's refusal to meet the con.
ditions imposed by the Pope and the
consequent cancellation of the intend
ed visit to the Vatican. The Austrian
monarch, it is said. looks upon the
failure of the Vatican audience as an
affront to the Pope.
| Mr.. Roosevelt particularly desired
the incident shall be regarded by his
friends, both Catholic and Protestant
in America as personal, and cabled a
statement to The Outlook at New
York, in which he said:
Through The Outlook l wish to
make a statement to my fellow Amer
leans regarding what has occurred in
connection with the Vatican. l am
sure that the great majority of my
fellow citizens-Catholics quite as
much as Protestants-will feel that
acted in the only way possible fol-
an American to act, and because OF
this very fact l most earnestly hope
that the incident will be treated in
, a matter-of.course way, as merely
personal, and above all, as not war
ranting the slightest exhibition of ran
cor or bitterness.
In speaking of the incident. Cardi
, nal Merry del Val, papal secretary o.
state, is reported to have said:
1T is not in any sense question
, of religion. Mr.. Roosevelt might have
gone to an Episcopalian, Presbyte
rian or any other church except the
: Methodist, and delivered an addres.
there, and he would have been re
ceived by the Pope, even on the same
day. But he could not be received
when it was suspected that after thu
audience he intended to go to th'
). Methodist Church in Rome, which IL
, carrying on most offensive cam
: paign of calumny and detractiol
against the Pontiff"