Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-19
De LONE FAILS TO
DENY The SIGNATURE
Prompt Action of the Government
In Notifying the Spanish
Government.
PASSPORTS WILL COME NEXT
Text OF De Lome's Letter In Which
He Speaks of IA President
In thu Most Unbecom-
ing Terms.

Washington, Feb. 11.-Senor DE
LONE, having been given every oppor-
tunity to deny the authorship of the
letter, the contents of which are SO
~distasteful to the administration, the
matter has been placed in the OF
Woodford with a broad intima-
ton that De LONE is persona o gra-
ia and will receive his passports.
The letter was received by the New
York junta yesterday. 1t was brought
from Havana by 2 special messenger.
After comparing the document with
those known to have been written by
Senior de LONE on h same kind OF
official note paper, and after experts
employed by the junta had pronounced
the authenticity of the document un'
questionable, it was translated from
Spanish into English.
DeLome's Letter.
The letter was addressed TO Senior
Jose Canaleias, former minister of
justice i'm Spain, and is signed by Senior
Dupuy de LONE. The document is as
follows, the translation being that
given out by the junta:
oIulllSh LIEdllOhg VIM 49,
His Excellency Senior Done Jose Cana
lejas-My Distinguished and Dear
Friend: You need not apologize for
not having written to me. | also ought
to have written to you, but have not
done so on account CT being weighted
down with work and nous sommes
q%uittes.
The situation here continues un-
changed. Everything depends on the
political and military success in Cuba.
The prologue of this second method OF
warfare will end the day that the CO.
%lonial cabinet will be appointed, and il
relieves us in the eyes of this country
Of a part Of the responsibility of what
may happen there, and they may cast
the responsibility upon the the Cubans,
whom they believe SO immaculate.
Until then we will not be able to
see clearly, and / consider it to be a
loss of time and an advance in the
wrong road, the sending of commits
saries to the rebel. field, the negotia-
tons with the autonomists not yet
declared to be legally constituted, and
the discovery of the intentions and
purposes of this government. The eN-
lies will return one by one, and when
they return will come walking into the
sheepfold, and the chiefs will gradual
ly return. Neither of these had the
courage to leave EN- masse, and they
will not have the courage to thus re-
turn.
The message has undeceived the in
surgents, who expected something
else, and has paralyzed the action OF
congress-, but / consider it bad.
Besides the natural and inevitable
coarseness with which he represents
all hat the press and public opinion Of
Spain has said to Weyler, it shows
once more that Mckinley is weak and
catering to the rabble, and besides a
low politician, who desires to leave a
door open to me and TO stand well with
the jingoes of his party.
Nevertheless, as a matter of fact,
it will only depend upon ourselves
whether he will prove bad and adverse
to us. agree entirely with you, with
out a military success nothing will be
accomplished there, and without mil
itary and political success there is here
always danger that the insurgents will
be encouraged, if not by the govern
ment, at least by part Of the public
opinion.
Il uO 1lot uNllCNS ~" " 49,
enough attention to the role of Eng
land. Nearly all that newspaper can
allie, which swarms in your hotels are
English, and at the same time they are
correspondents of the Journal they are
also correspondents of the best news
papers and reviews of London. Thus
5 it has been since the beginning. To
my mind the only object of England
is that the Americans should occupy
. themselves with us, and leave her in
I peace, and if there is a war, so much
!. the better. That would further re-
| move what is threatening her
> although that will never happen.
at will be most important that you
should agitate the question OF the
commercial relations, even though il
: would be only for effect, and that you
should send here a man of Importance
In order that / might use him to make
q propaganda among the senator's and
others in opposition to the junta to
win over eXiles.
There goes Amblarad. | believe he
comes too deeply taken UP with little
political matters, and there must be
something very great or we sha lose
"Adela returns your salutation, ano
we wish YOU in the new year to be q
G messenger of peace, and take this new
years present to poor Spain.
always your attentive friend ant
servant, who kisses your hands,
Enrique Dupuy de Lone"