New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-10
NEWYORK THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1898 FOURTEEN PAGES.

personal responsibility for the letter, which,
however. Senior Canalejas had never received.
Judge Day thereupon took the original letter
out of his pocket and sehor de LONE quickly
identified 1t as one that he had written, and
the brief interview. the last Of an official char
acter Sehor de LONE will ever have with an off,
cial Of the State Department. was at an end.
Judge Day then returned to the White House
and announced the successful result OF his un-
dertaking. which was speedily made known TO
General Woodford. In Madrid. Sehor Dupuy de
LONE will at once gather his personal effects
and expects to sail for Europe soon as poss-
bic, not waiting for the arrival OF his successor.
GRAVITY OF THE OFFENCE.
The offence of which Sehor de LONE was
guilty was grave enough to end any diplomatic
career To crticse or condemn the political
and personal motives or assail the personal char
actcr Of the head OF friendly nation to which
he is accredited as an envoy is one OF the
most objectionable sins diplomat can commit
But to hold the Chief Magistrate OF great
country up to contempt. even In private cor
respondence Is to invite. discovery. the swift
est and severest public retributon. Nothing
could be more injurious and objectionable than
the sentence in which President McKinleys
official and personal dignity was assailed In the
Canalejas letter Sehor de LONE thought, doubt
Iess that only the distant future would reveal
his personal opinions when he wrote OF an
American President:
Resides the natural and inevitable coarseness
with which he repeats all that the press and puohc
opinion Of Spain has said Of Weyler. 1t SHOWS once
more what Mckinley is. weak and catering 70 tne
rabble. and besides, a low politician, who desires
70 leave a door open to me, and to stand well with
the 1ingoes of his party.
But the indiscretons Of a diplomat are hheis
to revenge themselves at unexpected moments
and through the most tortuous channels ana
Minister de L6me's downfall adds repeated EN-
phasis to the injunction which. in the PROFESSION
he has followed puts the act OF sef-suppressio"
far above that Of facile though engaging speech'
From \ diplomatic point Of view no more
esregious professional blunder than the Spanish
Minister'S comment on the Message of Decemper
7 has been committed at this capital for genera
tions. Beside it the offences OF Ministers ilAe
cackvlle West shrink to the dimensions OF per-
sonal pecadilloes Of the most harmless sort
PREVIOUS AFFAIRS OF THE KIND.
Many instances in which offences Of the sort
charged against Minister Dupuy de LONE nave
beon committed by representatives OF Foreign
covornments accredited here can be found IN
tho history Of the United States. one OF the
first foreign Ministers TO receive his passpoi'' 10
WAS the MARQUIS de Yurigo, who represented ,he
King Of Spain in Washington during the nrs'
I'd sooord terms of Jenferson's Administration
tta more or less openly inspired attacks on '"e
state Department and its policy IN ne" "spapo.
rubIshed I'm Philadelphia, and commltteo o'"''
| a,.o indiscretions which, on his failure 10 eA-
n,aip mr. account for them. led to his summary
a,.,,issal from the capital by the Presideht
r. ,ddIine in the internal affairs OF this couh'
49,. racl,eon the British Minister. in lSlo, was
sent away: Poussin, the French M"iio'ei' :"
1910. Catacazy. the Russian, In lsI' ana "aoA
,,ue West. another British Minister
rrba latter. as is well remembered wrote '"'
,o,s Nurchison letter, reproduced during 'he
,I,r,, hours of the Presidential campaign ol
,ooo IN which he advised supposed American
.,.,.or ~ English birth to vote FOR the Delho-
o.otic as against the Republican Presldeh'la
-, President Cleveland at once dernahd-
,,,oration or denial of the letter and. no
Is.orv one being forthcoming, the BRUSH
,',-,a,on received his passports within three
days.