The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-12
De Lone Hates America.

It is far from being a secret here that
| Dupuy de LONE hates the United States
and it's people, writes Walter WellInan,
| from Washington Early in his career he
| showed his contempt for Americans by
publishing book of travels in which he
severely criticised not only American men
/ but American women. Though he has
many friends here. where he was years
/ ago secretary of legation and afterward
! for a short time minister, giving him
! altogether about five years spent in Wash
ington in addition to year in Chicago
as commissioner TO the Worlds Columbian
Exposition, he has never learned to Ike
! America as d whole. When he returns
TO Spain il is feared he will throw all his
| influence and his queerly acquired popu-
! larity against the Sagasta ministry and
in favor of a more vigorous policy against
the United States. He will be looked up
TO as the best authority upon all queS-
tons involving relations with this coun-
try, and it would surprise no one if the
next political CONFUSION in Spain were
to bring both Weyler and Dupuy de LONE
to the front as ministers. If ii should
happen that the man who insulted Pres
ident Mckinley were to become premier
or minister of foreign affairs, the dose
would be bitter one for the people of the
United States to swallow.
Minister and Nine. Dupuy de LONE have
been active in the society of Washington
but it cannot be said that they have been
extremely popular. The minister himself
is noted for his dislike of Americans, and
the intensity of his grievance against this
country has not always been yelled under
diplomatic language. Many persons have
been compelled TO listen with more or less
impatience to his diatribes against this
beastly land. its public men, its methods.
it's commercial tendencies, and even its
society. In the diplomatic corps Dupuy
de LONE has been some thing of bore on
account of his intense hatred of the coun-
try to which he was accredited, and his
fondness for expressing his feelings in all
sorts Of places and on all sorts of occa-
sions. These facts suggest that he will
be able to stir up a good deal of trouble
when he returns to his own country and
poses as a martyr to the malevolence of
the yankee shopkeepers.
This is the third Spanish minister who
has virtually been dismissed by the Wash
ington government. At the beginning of
the century, in 1906, Senior Yurgo was the
Spanish minister here. He attempted to
bride Philadelphia newspaper to advo-
cate the Spanish side of a boundary dis
pute then pending with this country, and
as soon as this was discovered his pass
ports were handed to him and he was
started for home. Senior Muragua, who
was Deputy de Lome's immediate prede-
cessor, was virtually recalled by his gov
eminent on account of complaints made
Of his conduct by the then secretary of
state. Mr.. Olney. Senior Muragua was
another yankee hater, and his public crit
icisms Of this country were resented.
Deputy de LONE claims that he has for
a long time been anxious to be relieved
of his post here. He says he is not rich
enough to live in Washington. The gen.
eral impression has been that Spain allow
ed him very large sum of money each
year, and that it was not necessary for
him to draw upon his private purse. The
retiring minister says that his private
funds have been used in large measure,
since he came here, and that he is tired
of carrying the burden and eager to go
home and re-enter politics. The SUCCESS
ton has been made that if bribing Amer
lean journals and journalists, or attempts
to do so, is a diplomatic offense, Dupuy
de LONE should have been given his walk
ing papers long ago..
Dupuy de LONE returns TO Spain not as
a crest-fallen, laundering diplomat who
violated the very first rule governing dip
lomatic intercourse, which is that the
government or official head Of the gov
eminent to which one is accredited must
never be spoken of in terms of disrespect,
but as a martyr and hero. He returns.
moreover. full of hatred for the United
States and its people and it's officials. This
is the natural effect of Dupuy de Lome's
three years work here during period OF
so much trial and vexation Notwith-
standing his bold pretensions that he is
glad the letter was written and after
ward stolen and given to the public, the
chances are that secretly he is much cha
grined and full of resentment against the
Cuban junta and the American newspa-
pers and government