The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-09
HEPRESIDENT;BYDELOM
ABysITE LETTER ATTRIBUTED 10
THE SPANISH MINIsTER,

That the Handwriting and Signature Are
No Lone's-They Have on Inhibition the
ORIGINAL, Stolen from CspaieIas at Havana.
LEGATION DE EsPANA. WASHINGTON.
Erfn,o Seaor Don Jost canaiejas.
MY DISTINGUISHED AND DEAR FRIEND: You
need not apologize for not having written to moi
1 also ought to have written to you. but have
not done 30 on account Of being weighed down
with work and nous sonlmes quittes.
The situation here continues unchanged.
Everything depends on the political and mill
tary success In Cuba. Tho prologue of this SEQ
ond method Of warfare will end the day that the
Colonial Cabinet shall DO appointed. and 1t no
heves us in the eyes Of this country of q part Of
the responsibility Of what may happen there.
and they must cast tho responsibility upon the
Cubans. whom they believe to DO 30 immaculate.
Until then wo will not DO able to see clearly,
and l consider It to be a loss Of time and an ad-
vance by the wrong road-the sending of ennis
saries to the rebel field, tho negotiating with the
autonomists not yet declared to be legally con-
etituted. and the discovery of the intentions and
purpose of this Government. The cxiles will re-
turn one by one. and. when they return. will
come walking into tho sheepfold. and the chiefs
will gradually return. Neither of these had the
courage to leave en- ntaase, and they will not
have tho courage thus to return.
Aho "CSbaBe uhb uHueC0lNeu INC 1nbuTg6nttR
who expected something else. and has paralyzcd
the action of Congress-. but 1 consider it bad.
Besides tho natural and inevitable coarseneso
lgroserial with which he repeats oil that the
press and public opinion OF Spain has said
OF Weyler, 1t shows once more what McKin-
ley is: weak and catering to the rabble. and.
besides. p low politician, who desires to leaves
door open to me and to stand we'll with tho jim
goes of his party.
Nevertheless. as q matter of fact. It will only
depend on ourselves whether he will prove bad
and adverse to us. I agree entirely with yout
without a military success nothing will DO 40
complIshed there. and without military and
political success there 10 here always danger
that the insurgents will DO encouraged. IL not
by the Government. at least by part of the public
opinion.
I do not believe you pay enough attention to
the r6lo of England. Nearly all that newspaper
canaille which swarms in your hotel are Eng
lish, and at the same time that they are cor
respondents of the Journal, they are also cor
respondents of the best newspapers and reviews
Of London. Thus It has been since the beginning.
To my mind the only object of England is that
tho Americans should occupy themselves with
US and leave her in peace. and II there is o war.
30 much the better; that would further remove
what is threatening her-although that viii
never happen.
It would DO most important that you should
agitate the question of commercial relations.
oven though It would be only for effect, and that
you should send here q man or Importance in
order that I might use him to mako q propa-
ganda among the Senators and others in oppo-
sition to the Junta and to win over eNiles.
There goes Amblard. I believe he comes too
deeply taken up with little political matters.
and there must DO something very great or We
shall lose.
Adela returns your salutation, and we wish
you In the new year to BIO Q messenger Of peace
and take this New Years present to poor Spain.
Always your attentive friend and servant,
who kisses your hands.
ENRIQUE DUPUY DE LONE.
Tho document above. translated from the
Spanish, was received yesterday from Havana
by the Delegation of the Republic of Cuba in
this city. The original, as appears on the face OF
1t, purports to be q letter written by Don En-
rique Dupuy de LONE. the Spanish Minister
in Washington. to Don jose Canalejas. editor of
Ell Heraldo de Madrid, in which the Spanish
Ministers opinion of the President Of the
United States Is set forth in unflattering termn.
Cubans familiar with the handwriting and the
signature of Senor DeiLome say that this letter
is written and signed by him. The paper 10 that
of the Spanish Legation. How it came into the
hands of the Cuban Delegation. when 1t was
addressed from Washington to Havana before
Sehor Canalejas left Cuba for Spain. is explained
as an act Of patriotism by q Cuban secret agent
in Havana. who. knowing the contents of the
letter and desiring to expose to tho world the
character Of Spanish diplomacy. stole the letter
in Havana at the risk of his own life.
The original text is at SO New street, in this
city, and tho Cubans are willing to have It ex.
amined by experts. Photographic copies of ID
were taken yesterday by several persons. and
many persons who know tho handwriting Of
Senior Dc Lomo came to tho Office. attracted by
curiosity. to SEQ the letter. They all declared 10
absolutely genuine.
It Is no cause for wonder that such . docu-
ment should come from Senior De Lome. As The
Sun revealed In March of last year. Senior De
LONE published In 1873 a book under tho title
DO Madrid q Madrid" full of indiscreet re.
marks about American women and American
political men. When THE Sun made this dis
closure Senior De Lomo answered with q state
ment that "the book was written when he was
young and inexperienced. and had only o super
fetal knowledge Of the United States and its
THE SUN replied to sehor Do Lome on March
10 in the following paragraphs:
1t is certain that do Madrid d Madrid.
and II It were the only instance Of his perverted
ideas about tho American people We should DO
lnCliu0u 10 ACCcpb Al IopcuLahCo dilcT hln0-
teen years. But we remember that Senior De
LONE came to this country as Minister from
Spain scarcely two years ago, when he was
neither 30 young nor SO inexperienced. and that
on his way 70 Washington he stopped AZ
BY his spanish friends. and at a banquet given
In his honor he expressed views about this coun:
try similar 10 those contained In this book OF
1873
La Lucha. a wellknown Havana newspaper.
then attacked Senior De LONE. for this and other
reasons, as an unit person for the arduous
diplomatic charge he was about to undertake.
La Lucha considered that IN the hard GirGgm:
was not improbable that Senior De LONE would
be coldly treated here, The dashing newspaper
furthermore. that the new Spanish Min
lister TO Washington was not tho pink OF discre-
ton and that bis remarks as q traveller might
Here is now the 1893 letter ascrlbed to De
LONE. which. though not dated, an omission
very common among Spaniards, appears from ito
new years greeting to belong to the month OF
January, a surmlse confirmed by the time al