The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-09
INSULTS.
Minister Dupuy De LONE Writes
Letter.
Calls President Mckinley a
Glow Politician.
is STOLEN BY CUBANS
Published and Scattered Broad
cast in the East.
The Spaniards Pronounce the
Document Forgery.
LIZ True, De LONE Must Be Re-
called at Once.
LIZ True, De LONE Must Be Re.
called at Once.
IN OFFICIAL CIRCLES
1t is Believed That De LONE
Made the Statements.

New YORK, Feb. 9--The Press says
that representatives of the Cuban junta
| yesterday gave out copies of a letter
! signed Enrique Dupuy De Lome,' who
is minister of Spain at Washington and
| addressed to Jose CanaIejas, who went
to Cuba last September as Premier Sa-
gasta's personal representative
In this letter the Spanish minister re-
fers to President Mckinley as weak
and catering to the rabbIe'' and as a
| ''low politician who desires to stand
well with the jingoes of his party"
| The Washington correspondent of the
Press says that when a copy of the let
| ter was shown to Minister De LONE, he
promptly pronounced it a forgery. He
! also says that an official of the state de-
| partment, discussing the matter, said:
DE LONE did not write the letter.
The Cuban junta has been imposed up
on by somebody"
On the other hand Horatio L. Rub
ems, counsel for the Cuban junta, says:
! I'VE know absolutely that this letter
| is genuine. A man risked his life to OBJ
! tain it. We do not hesitate to acknowl-
| edge that it was stolen from Canalejas.
I 1t is written on the paper of the Iega-
! ton. The handwriting is De Lome's
/ and the signature is his. He may deny
| it until he is black in the face but it
is genuine and everybody who has seen
it knows that it is. The man who stole
it distracted it from the envelope and
| left the latter. If he had attempted to
steal the envelope or had stolen the en-
velOpe, he would never have got away
/ with the letter.
Mr.. Rubens was asked about the
! translation, and if there was not some
danger that it might be wrong. He re-
| piled:
mo, the translation was made in the
office, by men who thoroughly under
stand both languages, and it is as near
| " correct as a translation can be-"
Where is the letter now?" he was
asked.
THAT I decline to answer
Washington, Feb. acknowledge that
/ a letter was published, claimed to have
been written by Minister Dupuy De
LONE, in which the president was crit
| icised, was current in Washington last
night. When acquainted with this fact
| the Spanish minister declared that if
| any such epistle was in existence it was
a pure forgery without an iota OF truth
| in it
/ Among congressman and diplomats it
was considered probable that should the
| letter be proven authentic it would re-
| suit in change of ministers.
EXCITEMENT AT WASHINGTON.
| Washington. Feb. 9.-The publication
| of a letter bearing the signature of the
| Spanish minister, Dupuy De LONE, ad-
| dressed to Senior CanalejaS and making
severe structures on President McKin-
| lev, has created a profound impression
| in official circles and is expected to
bring about important results IN the
Immediate future. The authenticity of
! the letter cannot be established from
| any official source, nor is any denial of
| it given from any quarter A strong
| impression prevails among those most
| intimately acquainted with the general
| subject that the letter is genuine in it's
substantial features, with some mac
| curacies of translation, possibly from
| design, by which the structures on the
president are made to appear more Of
fenSive than strictly literal transla-
ton would show. 1t is equally plain
| that the letter was of personal and
| confidential character and for that rea-
son is said to come under a different
head than q public communication or
| one of a diplomatic character. Not
Withstanding these reservations, the
| fact that the letter as whole has
| reached the public and in the main, it
| is as written, leads to the belief that it
will receive official attention. Little
doubt exists in official circles that if the
| genuinesS of the letter is fully eStab-
| lished that it will result in the retire
ment of Minister De LONE and his re
placement by another minister.
| Whether the United States govern
ment would ask for his recall is in
doubt but the Spanish minister him
| self doubtless would take this occasion
/ to relieve his government from any en-
| barrassment and would seekSreIief from
his post at Washington
At the Spanish legation every avenue
| of inquiry rs to the letter is closed The
/ minister positively declines to be seen
concerning the subject. He will neither
! affirm, nor deny the accuracy of the
| letter as a whole, or in part. Neither
| has he given any statement denying or
! affirming the letter and it can be stated
that published statements purporting to
give denials are inaccurate and unwar-
| ranted.
Washington, Feb 9.-In the house to-
| day Mr.. Su1zer (Dem., N Y.) attempted
| to secure recognition for the intrOduc-
ton in open house of a resolution which
after reciting the contents of a letter
alleged to have been written by Senor
DrDuy de LONE, the Spanish minister
| to Don Jose Canalejas, editor of the
| Madrid FL Heraldo (Which letter was
published this morning) and after al
Ieging that said letter was an insult to
this country, declared it to be the sense
of the house that the Spanish minister
s.be given his passports and sent home
in disgrace"
regular order.