The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-15
CONSUL MRCRUM TELLS
WHY he LEFT HIS POST
hectares That He Was a British Rather Than An
American Representative at Pretoria.
English Censor Tempered With His Mail Matter and Sub
jected Him to HumliatiOnS.

You may come home. Put After
bury temporarily in charge Depart
ment viii send mail from here
This was signed Hay ThereupoIs
] Cabled the department as follows:
Sail 18th by Naples
Started Fer Home.
This cablegram was sent on the Sth
and in the meantime I prepared TO go.
A few days later I received a Telegram
from Mr.. Hollis. consul at DelagOa Bay,
stating that he had been instructed TO
come TO Pretoria to take charge of
my Office during my absence and until
a man could arrive from Washington.
Mr.. Hollis arrived on the 14th Of De-
cember and was thoroughly posted in
the routine of the office and / intro
duCed him to the heads of all govern
ment departments and to my consular
colleag CUES.
Il left Pretoria the night OF Dec. l6.
I went straight to Paris, notified the
department OF my presence there while
waiting for the American line boat 10
sail for New York. I arrived in Wash
ington on Monday, the 5th Of Febru-
AIRY, and reported to Assistant Secre-
tary Hill of the state department. who
officially informed me that Secretary
Hays son had been appointed in my
place and that he was on his way to
Pretoria
4 appreciated the seriousness of the
conditions in South Africa to the eX-
tent that on my way 10 Washington,
believing that ] was still the consul in
Pretoria. 1 refused to make any state
ment that would i'm any way involve the
department or embarrass it. My one
object was to lay the information be-
fore the department as to the true state
Of affairs in South Africa. If the de-
partmeut thought these facts were pf
value sufficient TO warrant the expense
of the trip I had taken, ] expected to
be remuEeUated and returned 20 Pre-
t0ria. leaving the department TO act
as it saw fit upon the facts which I
laid before it,
Talks Of an Alliance.
Instead of this. 1 find that Secretary
Hay, whether acting upon the reports
in the newspapers, OF upon advice from
the British government, or some other
motive, I do not know. saw fit not 10
wait until I could present my reasons
in person and has been a silent or con-
niving partner 90 discredit reports Of
my Official acts I come home to find
an attempt has been made to tear dow n
my personal reputation. / wish to state
post as consul / knew nothing OF any
secret alliance between America and
Great Britain and that ! had seen moth
ing i'm the regulations which made the
consul of the American republic sub
jeCt TO the WhimS and capTices of an
English military censor at Durham.
came To America with a motive of
which ] am not ashamed.
There is not one soul who can point
to a single official AFT of mine which
departed from the strictest neutrality.
Ay confidential dispatches to the de-
pGrtment contained information which
viii show my sympathy for the repub-
lie. but which time will prove to be
unbiased rs to actual facts
My acts as q public official are all
recorded at the department My acts
now as private man can in no way
involve The public service and I simply
make this statement in my own de-
Tense as against those which have come
from the department, secretly and Of
icially.
tSigned)
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