Criticized the President
December 15, 1906
Summary
President Storey claims that President Roosevelt did not have the right to interfere with Cuban independence, and that he acted as a “menace of the future independence.”
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Criticized the President
Anti-Imperialist Asks When Roosevelt Became the United States
Boston, Dec. 4.- At the adjourned annual meeting of the Anti-Imperialist League resolutions were adopted expressing confidence in the success of the cause of the complete independence of the Philippine Islands.
In his annual address President Storey criticised President Roosevelt for his interference in the recent difficulties in Cuba, claiming that it was a menace to the future independence of the Cuban republic, as well as a usurpation of the rights of congress. “The United States,” said President Storey, “has the right under the Platt amendment to interfere for the preservation of Cuban independence, but since when has President Roosevelt became the United States?”
Anti-Imperialist Asks When Roosevelt Became the United States
Boston, Dec. 4.- At the adjourned annual meeting of the Anti-Imperialist League resolutions were adopted expressing confidence in the success of the cause of the complete independence of the Philippine Islands.
In his annual address President Storey criticised President Roosevelt for his interference in the recent difficulties in Cuba, claiming that it was a menace to the future independence of the Cuban republic, as well as a usurpation of the rights of congress. “The United States,” said President Storey, “has the right under the Platt amendment to interfere for the preservation of Cuban independence, but since when has President Roosevelt became the United States?”
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“Criticized the President,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed February 14, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/847.