The De Lôme Letter, a note written by Señor Don
Enrique Dupuy de Lôme
Enrique Dupuy de Lôme y Paulín (August 23, 1851 – July 1, 1904) was a Spanish ambassador to the United States. In the De Lôme Letter, he mocked U.S. President William McKinley, attacked McKinley's policies, and regarded McKinley as a weak ...
, the Spanish Ambassador to the United States, to Don
José Canalejas y Méndez, the Foreign Minister of Spain, reveals de Lôme’s opinion about the Spanish involvement in Cuba and US President
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**William McKinley, 25th president of the United States.
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’s diplomacy.
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Cuban revolutionaries
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intercepted the letter from the mail and released it to the
Hearst press, which published it on February 9, 1898, in the ''
New York Journal
:''Includes coverage of New York Journal-American and its predecessors New York Journal, The Journal, New York American and New York Evening Journal''
The ''New York Journal-American'' was a daily newspaper published in New York City from 1937 ...
'', in an article titled "Worst Insult to the United States in its History." Much of the press in New York began to demand De Lôme's resignation, and Hearst's ''New York Journal'' began a "Go Home De Lôme" campaign. These campaigns did, ultimately, lead to De Lôme's resignation. De Lôme’s unflattering remarks about McKinley helped stoke the flames that would become the
Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War (April 21 – August 13, 1898) was fought between Restoration (Spain), Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine (1889), USS ''Maine'' in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the ...
. Two months later, on April 11, 1898, McKinley delivered a war message to Congress suggesting "forcible intervention" by the United States to establish peace in Cuba.
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Yellow journalism
In journalism, yellow journalism and the yellow press are American newspapers that use eye-catching headlines and sensationalized exaggerations for increased sales. This term is chiefly used in American English, whereas in the United Kingdom, ...
Sources
Our Documents*W.A. Swanberg, from ''Citizen Hearst: A biography of William Randolph Hearst'': (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961)
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