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
lie Speaks OF the President
In the Most Cubecom-
ing Terms.

Washington, Feb. ~ff.-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 hands OF
Woodford with n broad intima-
ton that DE LONE is persona non gra-
ia ana will receive his passports.
The letter was received by the New
York junta yesterday. 1t was brought
from Havana by a special messenger.
After comparing the document with
those known to have been written by
Senior de LONE on the 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.
DcLUme's Letter.
The letter was addressed TO Senior
Jose Canaieias, former minister of
justice in Spain, and is signed by Senior
Dupuy de LONE. The document is as
follows, the translation being that
given out by the junta:
Spanish Legation, Washington.-To
His Exceilency Senior Done Jose Cana
lejas-My Distinguished and Dear
Friend: You need not apologize for
not having written 10 me. i 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 UNI
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.
tonial 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 viii not be able to
see clearly, and ! consider il 10 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 eX-
lies will return one by one, and when
they return will come walking into the
s%heepfold, 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 IL bad.
BESIDES the natural and inevitable
coarscness with which he representa-
all that the press and public opinion Of
Spain has said TO Weyler, ii shows
once that Mckinley is weak and
catering TO the rabble, and besides a
low politician, who desires TO leave a
door open TO me and 10 stand well with
the jingoes Of his party.
nevertheless, as a matter of fact,
il will only depend upon ourselves
whether he will prove bad md 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 do not believe that you pay
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
IL 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
peace, and IL there is a war, so much
the better. That would further re-
move what is threatening her
although that will never happen.
at win he 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 I might use him to make
a propaganda among b senator's and
others in opposition to the junta to
win over exiIes.
There goes Amblarad. / believe he
comes too deeply taken UP with little
political matters, and there must. be
something very great or we shall lose,
"Adela returns your salutation, and
we wish you in the new year to be a
messenger of peace, and take this new
years present to poor Spain.
Always your attentive friend and
servant, who kisses your hands,
tsEs..sntn nxva Ia ,wx ~ y