Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-05-30
DEAR MARIA AGAIN
ATTACKS COLONEL
Calls Roosevelt a Mob. Ruler Who
Has Done What He Ac-
cuses Taft OF.

| New York. May 2s-Nrrs. Maria
Longworth Storer. wife of Bellamy
Storer of Cincinnati, whom Roosevelt
recalled as ambassador to Austro-
hungary In 1906, returned yesterday
to the warfare against the former
president which she has waged through
occasional letters to the newspapers
in the last six years.
| Mrs. Storer who f. an aunt Of Con-
gresham Nicholas Lonsworth, Roose-
velts son-inlaw. and whose intimacy
with Roosevelt was such at one time
that the letters they exchanged. were
addressed to Dear Theodore" ana
Dear Maria" is at the Hotel Wolco.t
with her husband. They sail for Eu-
rope on the Lustania tomorrow
morning AT one o'clock. Yesterday
Mrs Storer sent the following letter
to the Evening Post:
There can be no doubt that, II
Theodore Roosevelt be nominated II
Chicago, no friend of President Tai,
Cana no friend of law. order, and au-
thority, whether democrat or repub-
lican) can vote for the republican
candidate. All party lines and divi-
conflict and the struggle for DONNA
ton is and will be, not between Roose-
Welt and Taft or Roosevelt ana the
democracy, but between Dictatorship
and freedom. Theodore Noo=eveltg
liberty is license. not government b,
the people. but but mob-rule. WITH
himself as the Mob Ruler
LEADING FOOLS CAPT1vEo
Theodore Roosevelt has been com.
pared to a French monarch, but the
boyish boast: L'etat. cest Mot Of the
young Louis XIV meant really very lit
tie Louis XIV was no tyrant. and he
had no power in comparison with this
[ King Theodore; man who has IN
hesttatinsy broken his pledges, and
who IS guilty Of all the misdeneanors
OF which he has falsely accused an hon
orable, just and upright President, but
who is leading fools captive stirring I'D
knaves to sediton. and binding tho
eyes of some few honest men who still
see in lon leader and a hero
i speak as a Catholic when I sav
that the new political party Of the
future. which shall be organized If
tTheodore Roosevelt be nominated, must
have the support Of every Catholic
worthy of his faith.
The Catholic Church throughout all
the world stands for law order and
authority. President TAFT has said tha,
az Is one of the strongest bulwarks
against anarchy and disorder in tho
modern world; and President Taft. both
In the Philippines and In the United
States. has carried out the declaration
OF our constitution, which guarantees
justice to all citizens whatever their re-
llig1on may be.
Theodore Roosevelt's campaign Of ca
bunny has tried 70 make use Of every
despicabls weapon. 1t has attempted to
stir up an antt-Catholic ennity gainst
the President. accusing Mr.. Taft Of send
Ing poor Major Butt on a special mission
to the Pope, and asserting that Major
Butt carried secret messages to and from
the Vatican.
This. II YOU please. from Theodore
Roosevelt. who when It suited his purpose
land he gained a big Catholic vote in the
Northwest thereby, asked personal ia
vors of Pope Plus. and when he feared
ant-CathoIc wrath denied what he had
done and tried 10 support his denial by
an open affront to the same Pope Plus Y
on the occasion of Mr. Roosevelts pro-
posed visit TO the Vatican.
BARE METAL COUNTERFEIT"
With regard to this incident a non.
Catholic paper, the Chicago Bulletin (ot
April Is, 1910. said; In his controversy
with the Pope he has gone bit too far
and has ch.shed with man known for
his sterling qualities and kindly nature
lie has been discourteous to the head OF
one Of the greatest churches in the world.
and has offered a direct affront to hun
dreds OF thousands Of his fellow country
men who are devout members of the
church.
III President Taft is renomnated all
right-n,naed Catholics should vote for
him as the uphoider of order and au-
thority. II Theodore Roosevelt be
chosen IN Chicago every Catholic In
the land has right 10 demand OF the
Democratic party a candidate who will
be acoepta bic TO them, one with
malice toward none and with charity TO
all in regard to the religion Of all the
people of the United States.
Mrs Storer's statement In her letter
to one of our greatest Presidents and
not base metal counterfeit present
ment the country may still be saved,
whatever calamity may overwhelm the
IChicago convention"
| -'iS 'Npit Sthltiltut III utT letter
that she speaks "as Catholic" re-
"opens the original breach between the
storers and the former president. The
ostensible reason for their recall from
Vienna was their activity AT Rome tow
ard the elevation to cardnalate of
Archbishop Ireland of ST Paul, through
friendship with whom, II was said, the
iStorers became Catholics
IRELAND UPHELD STORERS
Nine months after the Storers lef,
Vienna a pamphlet setting forth their
side OF the controversy with the presi-
dent was published. In It the declaration
was made that the activity in Archbishop
lrelands behalf was at the request of
Roosevelt. The president replied to this
pamphlet through letter 10 Secretary of
State Root denying that this was so and
declaring that tho attempt to establish
this was an act of peculiar perfldy."
On September 8, 1870 Mrs. Storer replied
to this letter In one which she addressed
to the Springfield Republican. She then
quoted from a number of letters from
Archbishop Ireland In which he support
ed her contention that Roosevelt had au-
thori2ed Ambassador Storer ito say. viva
voce. to the Pope" how much he would
personally like to see the archbishop made
| a cardinal. Mrs. Storer concludes this