The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-04-08
PERSONA NON GRATA.

Tho appointment of Max Judd. of st.
Louis, rs Consul General at Vienna
Secns LIKELY to Reopen n Question
Eaissd During Mr.. Cierciant's FormeE
Observation-Disclosures Jew I;aiters
should tiet Another Rebuke.
WAsHISGToS, April S.-Cable messages
from Vienns stating that the anti
Semitic organizations and other bodies
in that city are vigorously protesting
against the reception of Mr.. Max Judd,
of Missouri, q Hebrew citizen of the
United States and n native of Austria,
nominated and confirmed Us consul to
Vienna, have necessarily recalled the
Kelly incident of Mr.. Cleveland's pre-
vious administration in connection
with the same country. The anti
Semitic feeling, it will be recollected,
played an important part in the refusal
of Austria to receive Mr.. Kelly, and
resulted in the practical suspension OF
diplomatic relations between the two
countries for over 4 year. Mr.. Kelly,
citizen of Richmond, Va, was
first selected by President Cleve-
land and his secretary of state,
Mr. Bayard. as minister to Italy, but
was declared persona non grata by the
king of Italy, on account of some very
strong opinions he had publicly ex-
pressed as to the overthrow of the tenn
poral power of the pope by the Italian
government Resigning rs minister to
Italy, on this objection being made
known, Mr.. Kelly was almost immedi-
ately nominated as minister to Aus.
tria. Here another and equally fatal
objection was encountered. Mr.. Nc
Lean, then our minister to France,
cabled Mr.. Bayard May %, 1885. that
Mr.. Keily's position in Vienna would
be difficult, if not impossible, in conse-
quence of the fact that his wife WAS a
Jewess." To this intimation Mr. Bay
ard replied that Mr.. Kelly had already
sailed. and that the United States
could not admit, consider or discuss
any supposed disqualification of its
officials based upon religion"
In later correspondence this objec-
ton was supplemented, according to a
dispatch from United States Minister
John NJ. Francis, dated Vienna, June
II, 1885, by the statement of the
Austrian minister of foreign affairs,
that "the alleged fact that his (Mr.
Keily's) wife was Jewess did not in
flIcnce the judgment of his majesty's
government in the premises, but it had
been guided by the fact that friendly
government. n near neighbor, had OBJ
jectcd to him as the United States rep
resentative at its court.
Mr.. Bayard, however. persisted in
holding that the fact that Mr.. Keiley's
influence. In dispatch to Baron Schae-
fer. the Austrian representative at
Washington, on about the same date he
said: THE only objection assigned by
Count Kalnoliy to receive Mr.. Kelly
being the religious faith of the latter's
wife, was answered by my note Of
May Is"
The upshot Of the whole affair was
that Mr.. Kelly was shunted off to
Egypt as one of the judges of the in
tcrnatiOnal court, which position he
still retains; that tho Austrian minis
ter in Washington was given indefinite
leave of absence, and that the United
States did not appoint another minister
to Austria until that country made the
first advances more than twelve months
afterwards.
In view of these facts, standing out
so prominently in the diplomatic corre-
spondence of the United States, it is
being asked whether the selection of a
Hebrew by the United States for the
important position of consul general in
Vienna was intended to renew the
former cause of discussion or whether
Il was merely an accident.