Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — VAN ALEN WILL NOT ACCEPT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VAN ALEN WILL NOT ACCEPT.

Almost Was He Persuaded to Be an Ambassador. Correspondence botween J. J. Van Alen, the Department of State, and the President has been made public. It

includes a letter dated Nov. 2C from Mr. Van Allen to Secretary Gresham declining to accept the Italian embassy, one from Mr. Cleveland tc Mr. Van Alen urging his acceptance, and a reply to the President’s letter, dated Nov. 25, persisting in the declination.

The almost embassador denies the charge .that he furnished $50,000 to the Democratic campaign fund—he says the sum was smaller—or that for such a reason his name had been sent to the Senate. In his letter to Van Alen urging him to reconsider his refusal to accept the embassadorship, Mr. Cleveland says: I did not seloot 70H for nomination to the Italian mission without satisfying myself oi your entire fitness for the place. lam now better convinced of your fitness than ever. You know, and I know, that all the malignant criticism that has been indulged in regarding the appointment has no justification, and that the decent people who have doubted its propriety have been misled, or have missed the actual considerations upon which it rests. We should not yield tt the noise and clamor which have arisen from those conditions. Mv personal preferences should enter very slightly into your final determination, but so <arts l have such preference it is emphatically that you accept the honorable office conferred upon you and vindicate by the discharge of its duties the wisdom and propriety of your selection.

Mrs. Emma Van Patton was arrested at Salt Lake, Utah, on a warrant charging her with the murder of her uncle, Soren Neilson, an aged money lender, by poisoning him Oct. 18, at Provo. The dead man kept a large sum of money ab mt the house, but only SSO was found after his death. About S2OO worth of meat was stolen from Kamrath & Hirschinger’s market at Baraboo, Wis.

J. J. VAN ALEN.