The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1898-02-18

c postoffice at Havana. Don Jose Cal
+ alejas, to whom the letter was addres
ed, never saw the original. He di
not know until eight days after the lie
ter reached Havana that such a lette
: from SPANS representative in Wasl
ington had been written him.
ODE LONE wrote the letter in hi
I private residence in Washington, ii
stead of at the Spanish legation, Th
paper, however, was marked with th
official type and read in the corne
Legation de E>pana,' The same in
scrpJion was upon the leit-hand uppe
corner of the envelope.
"Senor De LONE did not mail tn,
letter from his, house, In fact, he haC
not quite completed it upon the morn
ING 1t was written and carried to the
legation, where it was first seen and
noticed by person who is in the EN-
ploy OF the embassy, acting in a sub
official capacity. The letter lay upon
the desk Of the minister in his inner of.
lice the outer office being his place OF
reception to visitors. During an alb
sence OF half an hour from the inner
office of De LONE the clerk in ques ion
saw the open letter and read some of it.
"The next day the same person sent
word to his Cuban associates in Wash
ington to the effect that he had seen a
letter from De LONE to Canaleias in
which President Mckinley was villf,
ed and autonomy called a scheme.
Several of the Cuban leaders got to-
gether and asked the employee of the
embassy to secure the letter. They
did not believe implicitly in his story,
although he urged them to come into
the public print and make charges a
gainst De LONE. Because they did
not have the letter in their possession
the Cubans refused to say anything a
bout it. The employee Of the legation
was urged to use all means in his DOW.
er to secu e the letter, although it was
considered probable that the letter was
already in the mails when the Cuban
at the Hotel Raleigh were informed Of
its existence.
Then the clerk in the employ of
De LONE saw no more of the
letter. From his memory written alb
.tracts were forwarded to New York
and it was quickly agreed that could
possession Of the letter be obtained and
lis statements proved to be true the
etter would be of great value to the
1nban cause as substantiating what
Cuban leaders had maintained regard
ng autonomy aud the general Spanish
'ohcy in officers. Immediately words
t warning and urgings to be on the
lert were sent to every Cuban who
light be in position to obtain track
Or intercept the much sought for
lissive.
"lhe letter reached Havana five
avs after its postmark in Washington.
n agent of the Cuban party, who is
employee of the Spanish postofice,
new the letter was on the way and {
hen 1t came into his hands it was car,
ed from the postoffice and copy was
ade of it. Word 10 this effect was l
Mt to the Cuban leader IN jackson
lie, Fla, who at once asked the Gu.
III J'Hla III iIdNdlla 10 secure the or j
Iual letter-that copy was not what
As desired. The Havana postofice o
ERIK was not willing to do this at first, g
1t atterward consented, as he was 8
Ilged to account for a certain num- !,
I OF letters to other employees of the W
partment. The original was then n
ken, several blank sheets were sub. u
tuted in place of the paper upon
llch DE LONE had written and the
ter finally postmarked in the Ha.
ma office and sent its routine wav
ght days from its arrival in the Ha-
ma office the sealed envelope, proper.
addressed to Senior Canalejas, was
IVered at the Hotel Inglaterra.
nor Canalejas did not regard the
tier seriously at the time, although 81
hotel boy. who brought him the let,
and the postoffice employee who d
1 last charge of it were arrested.
also was the hotel employee who i
Mt several times daily to the postof ST
tor the mails. All three were dis.
rged after an examination. %
Senior Canalejas communicated al
st Immediately with Minister De Il
ne, and for several weeks cables
letters passed between the two.
no trace of the letter could be OBJ.
led. Canalejas shortly thereafter
Havana, going to Madrid"
After Forty Years.
'orty years after Seward proclaim, oii
The lrrepressible conflict between -
,ery and freedom the contest be- FL
en- the silver standard and that of ar,
l is found to have reached the