The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-11
oANALEJAs BETRAYED DE LONE.
Throw or the Mask or Frispdship and Clan,
ored for the Minister'S Recall.

Threw or the Mack or Frfspdship and Clam
ored for tho Ministers Recall.
Persons we'll acquainted with Spanish and
Cuban affairs suspect that Don jose Canalejas
y Mendez, editor of Ell Herdldo de Madrid. ia
principally responsible for the disgrace of the
Spanish Minister In Washington, Senior Dupuy
do Lone.
The famous letter OF Senior De LONE was adj
dressed to Sehor Canslejas at Havana. How this
letter, twenty-five days after Senior Canalejas
left Havana for Spain. came to Now York
and fell into tho hands of the Cuban
Junta is still o mystery. It is known
that the letter was brought from Havana to the
Junta by q special messenger. But how did the
Havana conspirator who stole the important
document know of its existence IL Sehor Canale-
jas himself did not reveal it'll
Senior Canalejas was not O very intimate
friend of Senior Do Lone. Tho editor OF Ell
Hcrdldo came to this country intrusted with
a very important secret mission from
Spain. He came. in short, to bribe tho
Cubans Of tho Junta and, IL possible. to
excite in Washington sympathy with Spain.
Besides. he carried important instructions to
Cuba directed toward bribing the most impor-
tant leaders of the revolution. A few days be-
fore Senior Canalejas's arrival in New York THE
SUN printed advices from Havana and Madrid
about his real mission. The willy politician found
that his plan was already known and waived It
for the moment. De LONE, who. in case of Ca
~nalejas's success, would have been deprived Of
the glory he expected of saving Spain
by his diplomatic abilities. received the
Spanish ex-Minister warmly in appear
ance, but with great distrust at first.
SfRs' IT, real G Purpose nst of SS%Si Is saip. N p: IS %as
Do LONE officially informed about 1t from Spain.
The whole game was one Of treachery on the
mart nf ~ 0QQtn fnUnrd Ia Lama and nm thu
To gndeEstand this well It should be- known
Son Of his commanding influence in the press
and "A also Ooi fGf his utter w yyS.S Of good faith
called to power Ganaieiass. did 'a not acc sps
a portfolio In the new Cabinef. The great
s sna SsSom Ct bl his He sha i pl to Rss a IL the fns fssrsi
P party was a soias h ss,| p fa SSSs a he s SAW that h So;
CABINET, bas neithsr did he M ike e 9 break AK
gasta without further INFORMATION about
the state Of the war, He declined then to be a
M Wss sein 81 p sns 1sHIpe e 0h inv ses safs' the sh situ he
tion In Cuba. But the secret mission of bribery
sS ls0G nat De- k gSSsP to son sssST de that homs f
There was no risk in that. Should he sue.
SsISd. he he would a,o return 70 Spain covered p,s
his personal inyestigation led him to conclude
tudJ ouRdblu, DG LUIuC. duu plduCO u JIG
Sagasta would never dare to expose him, be-
cause 1t would be to expose himself also.
Dupuy de LONE was not a match for such q
man. In spite of his well-known astutenesst the
Minister in Washington was deceived by
SSshnSieiSSs. 1t Is known very well ! that hat
wife. excrted Q commanding influence in
public as we'll as private affairs. Sehor
Canalejas. of great social skill, had the talent
confidence Of her husband. and De LONE opened
his soul to Canalejas as to the most trustwor-
thy friend.
That Senior Canalejas was not the friend of
Senior Dc Lome IL proved by the fact that a few
Heraldo. Canalejas's newspaper. began a fierce
campaign against the Spanish Minister In
Washington. 1t asked for the recall of De
LONE. 1t charged him with the .grayest faults.
that the Maine was off for Havana until Sec.
rotary Day showed him Consul-General Lees
despatch" In another fierce paragraph Canal
e1as said that his newspaper would surely be
able to inform the Spanish Government, before
De LONE heard OF It. that war had been declared
In Washington. Let Do Lone take q rest"
was the cry of FL iHerdido, an evident treachery
of Senior Canalejas toward the man who had
treated him as q confidential friend.
vigorously attacked De LONE. and whose editor
and, main supporters became intimately ac-
quainted in Havana with Canalejas, renewed o
few days ago its attacks on DE Lome's indiB-
cretions." The publication of the letter Is a
and La Luchu. The beliefis now that the letter
was given In Havana by Canalejas to some of
his friends to be Ased when he should he back in
Spain waRinR war on De LONE and that those
friends have now used 1t.
The disclosures Of the letter itself, as well rs
the dealings of Sagasta, Canalejas and DO
LONE with each other, are curious instances of
Spanish treachery.